Zalán Ilyés

(1994, Székelyudvarhely / Odorheiu Secuiesc, RO)

He studied at the Photography and Media Faculty of the Sapientia Transylvanian Hungarian University in Cluj-Napoca, spending one semester at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design with a scholarship. In 2018 he obtained his master’s degree; but he had already been working since 2016 as a photojournalist intern at the Cluj-Napoca daily newspaper Szabadság. In 2017 one of his works was selected for the Sony Word Photography Awards and exhibited at Somerset House in London. In 2018 he won first prize in the photography section of the Academic Students’ Conference (TDK) in Cluj-Napoca. In 2019 he was awarded an artist’s scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Since 2025, he has been a photojournalist for Népszava, while also working on his own projects as an artist. He is currently a member of the Random contemporary art photography group.