Emőke Kerekes

(1980, Erdőszentgyörgy / Sângeorgiu de Pădure, RO)

She received her bachelor's degree in photography from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010 and her master’s degree in arts and New Media from the University of Arts in Târgu Mureș in 2024. She is a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers. She has been the co-founder and president of the KopiaKollektiva Society in Romania since 2020, working to promote contemporary photography and experimental film in culturally marginalized small towns and villages through site-specific exhibitions, creative workshops, mentoring programs, and educational initiatives. Her work focuses on cultural and personal remembrance, as well as on the rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe and their sociohistorical imprints. Her working method combines elements of documentary, staged, and experimental photography; in addition to analogue and digital techniques, she also uses installation forms to present her images. She has had several solo exhibitions, and in 2008 she won a shared third prize at the exhibition Camera Obscura – Contemporary Dark Rooms of the Hungarian House of Photography. She received a creative grant from the National Cultural Fund (NKA) for the period 2021-2022, and an art scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts (MMA) between 2022 and 2025.