György Németh

(1951, Sándorfalva)

György Németh is a photographer, graphic artist and teacher based in Szeged. He took up photography as an amateur in the Kontakt creative group of the Szeged Photo Club. From 1989, he was a journalist and photojournalist for the Southern Great Plain region branch of the Hungarian News Agency. During his time at the news agency, he won numerous awards at the Hungarian Press Photo Competition. His graphic art works have appeared in over a hundred books. He has worked in many former Soviet member states as a photographer, but he has primarily documented the life of the scattered farmsteads in the Homokhát region near Szeged for several decades. Currently, he teaches press photography at the University of Szeged’s Department of Communication and Media Studies and Vocational Training Institute. As a member of the Szebeni Workshop, his works can be found in the Hunguest Collection of Art Photography. In 2023, he received the Photojournalism Lifetime Achievement Award established by the Photojournalist Section of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center.