Szilvia Mucsy

(1973, Budapest)

Szilvia Mucsy is a photographer, the president of the photography organisation RANDOM, as well as co-founder and director of the Budapest Photo Festival. She began her career at the Studio of Young Photographers in 1996, later becoming one of its leaders. She graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design as a photographer, and then studied photography at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Association of Hungarian Creative Artists. Her works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions both in Hungary and abroad, including Athens, New York, Rome, Aix-en-Provence, as well as at photography festivals such as the Daegu PhotoBiennale in Korea, Fotofestival Lenzburg in Switzerland, and UNSEEN in Amsterdam. Her photos have been published in several art photography books, as well as in Fotóművészet, Új Művészet, PipaBooks, the London-based Shots, Average Art and Wotisart magazines, the Bratislava-based IMAGO, European Journal of Media, Art & Photography, and the Moscow-based Esquire magazine. She came third in the National Geographic Hungary competition in 2007, won the József Pécsi scholarship twice, and received creative scholarships from the National Cultural Fund on several occasions. She was selected for the FUTURES Talent programme in 2018, and she won second place and the audience award in the PhoS Athens Streetphoto competition in 2017. Her photo album Mediterrano was published in 2008.