Magdi Keresztes

(1955, Nyíregyháza)

She obtained her photography certificate in Miskolc. She worked as a photo lab technician and photographer at BVK, and already at the age of 22 she also worked as a camerawoman for Hungary’s national television station MTV. She works for several media outlets, including the newspaper Búvár, where she works as a photojournalist. Her successful admission materials to the Photojournalism School of the Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) went missing and treated as lost, so she was demoted to photo lab technician and has been a freelance photographer ever since. She is a member of MÚOSZ. She worked as a camerawoman at MTV for 12 years, but at the age of 55, when MTVA (Media Services and Support Trust Fund) was established, she was fired and has been an unemployed artist ever since.