
Éva Keleti | photographer
She is the leading figure of the society of Hungarian photography, with a Prima Primissima Award (2008), a Kossuth Award (2017) and the honorary president of National Association of the Hungarian Journalists. She started her career at the Hungarian Photo -later called MTI (Hungarian News Agency)- as a reporter in 1952, then from 1976 she was the picture editor and photo reporter of Új Tükör (New Mirror). Until her withdrawal she was the establishing manager Europress Photo Agency. As a photographer and also an editor she is a significant artist and former of Hungarian photography of the past seventy years. She has participated and still works in national and international jury panels and relevant professional institutions. Her recent great scale individual exhibition: Life/Still (Kunsthalle, Budapest, 2019) and the connecting publication Life/Still (Hamu és Gyémánt, 2019). Her artworks are in trust of national and international collections. My first significant exhibition was arranged in the Ernst Museum, which was followed by several other exhibitions both in Hungary and abroad. My pictures taken in India have been shown in exhibitions in the National Gallery and in the Museum of Ethnography. Recently I had exhibitions about Iván Darvas and Éva Ruttkai actors at the University of Kaposvár and at the Vígszínház. My life-work book titled “So Far and Near” was edited by Mihály Gera. The Memorial Volume of Iván Darvas was published in 2007. After that my series was published entitled “Reportage Art”.