Imre Drégely

(1960, Bácsalmás)

Imre Drégely graduated from the Secondary School of Visual Arts, where he specialised in photographic illustration, in 1979. After this, he was a cameraman at Hungarian State Television, photographer at the National Film Institute and Archive, and guest student at the Studio of Young Photographers, he took up photography as an art form in the mid-1980s and graduated in 1994 from the Hungarian University of Art and Design. He regularly features at group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. His works have been displayed at solo exhibitions in London and Berlin, as well as in his home country. Between 1991 and 1993 he was a recipient of the József Pécsi Scholarship, and in 2007 he was presented with the Rudolf Balogh Award. He won the City of Esztergom’s Award at the 2010 Esztergom Photo Biennial. In recent years he has focused on digital imaging and various alternative photographic processes. He is a master teacher at the Photography Centre of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and also gives masterclasses at the ArtBázis PhotoVillage events.