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Dávid Biró (1992) is an artist based in Budapest, Hungary. He studied Photography BA at the University of Kaposvár and he is currently doing his Photography MA studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME).
His main interest is the correspondence of the photographic medium and perception. He uses the camera as an extension of the human sight and tries to examine the concept of reality and knowledge. He mostly works in the studio environment and seeks to unfold his ideas in a progressive form.
His works were shown at exhibitions at home and abroad. He won the ON_AWARD grand prize of the OFF_Festival Bratislava Contemporary Photography Festival as a member of a group exhibition in 2014. He won the National Scholarship of Hungary in 2015–2016 and the Association of Hungarian Photographers: Photography Scholarship for 2017. He is a member of the Hungarian Photographers’ Association and Studio of Young Photographers. Biró is represented by Trapéz Gallery, Budapest.
Éva Szombat is a photographer working and living in Budapest. Her unique blend of glamour and sociological examination has appeared in local and international magazines, and websites including Vice, Huffington Post, Ignant, Neon, Blink magazine, Vogue Spain and Feature Shoot. She got her Masters' Degree in Photography from MOME (2012) in Budapest, Hungary.
She received the Pécsi József Photography Scholarship between 2013 and 2016, during which she examined the phenomenon of happiness and its effects on people. She released two books on the subject, the limited edition Happiness, and Practitioners. She won artistic scholarships in Paris and New York. Her works were displayed in New York, Jerusalem, Milan, Vienna, Berlin, among other places. She is currently working on several new series, and she is very happy herself.
Márton Kállai was born in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. During his sociology studies at ELTE University his interest in photography began to evolve. He works as a photojournalist since 2006, mainly documenting the daily life of the Hungarian countryside.
In his personal projects he focuses on the creation and cohesion of communities and the human relationship with the environment. He follows his stories for longer periods, looking for the dynamics of change. Besides several awards at the Hungarian Press Photo Contest, he was awarded 3rd place at Pictures of the Year international – Feature Picture Story category. Between 2015 and 2017 he received the Pécsi József Photography Scholarship.
Máté Dobokay (b. 1988) graduated at University of Kaposvár on Photography BA department. He received a Republican Scholarship for 2015‐2016, was shortlisted for the Leopold Bloom Award in 2015 and also for the Esterházy Award in 2017.
During 2014 he was a member of the winning team at OFF_Festival, Bratislava and was nominated for the Lucien et Rodolf Hervé Prix. He was the youngest artist exhibited in “IMPACT: Abstraction & Experiment in Hungarian Photography” exhibition in New York. He has been featured in several group shows in Europe. He has had his first solo exhibition last year. Currently he is working on his next two solo shows and on the first groupshow what is going to be curated by himself. He is represented by acb Gallery, Budapest.
Szilvia Bolla (1992) is an artist working with photography in relation to installation, and sculpture. She graduated in 2016 with First Class Honours of BA Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
In the past years, she has been regularly exhibiting in Italy, Hungary, and the United Kingdom. Her work is part of the University of the Arts London collection and several Vienna and London-based private collections. Since 2017, she is a student of MA Photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest.