Zsolt Hamarits

(1966, Pécs)

Zsolt Hamarits graduated in electrical engineering in 1990 and obtained a degree in photography in the same year. He received his degree as a photojournalist at the Association of Hungarian Journalists’ György Bálint Academy of Journalism in 1993. He worked as a freelance photographer until 1994 and taught at the Práter Street photography school from 1994 to 1998. He was head of the photo studio and laboratory at the visual communication department of the Hungarian College of Applied Arts between 1998 and 2000. He has worked in his own advertising and applied photography studio since December 2000. He has been a member of the Studio of Young Photographers since 1989 and of the Association of Hungarian Photographers since 1993. He was awarded the József Pécsi Scholarship in 1994. His works have featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. He won the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2017. He currently holds masterclasses in professional studio photography, and teaches at the National Association of Hungarian Journalists and the Szellemkép Free School. He is a member of the Visual Arts board of the National Cultural Fund of Hungary and of the Expert Committee on Copyright. He has been President of the Hungarian Photographers’ Association since 2023.