János Dozvald

(1939, Budapest)

János Dozvald graduated from ELTE University with a degree in Hungarian and art history in 1964 and started his career as a journalist (Pest Megyei Hírlap, Ifjúsági Magazin). He became a freelancer in 1970, creating film animations and writing scripts for Hungarian State Television. From 1972 he worked mainly on audio-visual photo projects. He was a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers between 1980 and 1992, and he has been a member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists since 1980. In 1984 he won awards for his pictures at the Photokina cAVcom festival in Cologne, and then in 2017 he won the Grand Prize of the National Association of Hungarian Artists. Album: Budapest – Little Things About a Big City (2005). His last two solo shows were hosted by the Fészek Gallery (2012, 2016, 2018). Other illustrated books: Human Cosmos, Haiku-like Poems for Daguerre’s Grave, Crazy Island.