Gábor Fejér

(1954, Budapest)

Gábor Fejér graduated from the Secondary School of visual Arts in 1973 specialising in photographic illustrator programme. He is a founding member of the Studio of Young Photographers, a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers and the Photojournalists’ Section of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists. He worked as a photojournalist for eleven years and later as section editor at the daily Népszava. He was a picture editor of Népszabadság for nineteen years, and then of Ridikül Magazin for ten years. He has had solo exhibitions in London, Tallinn and Budapest. His retrospective exhibition marking fifty years of his work was presented in 2004 at the Hungarian House of Photography. His portraits of musicians were shown at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2010, and his exhibition, Music in Pictures Differently was presented at the Kolta Gallery in 2018. He has won several prizes in national competitions. He received the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2002 and was awarded the Photojournalists’ Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year. He is the picture editor of the volume 300 Masters of Hungarian Photography (2026).