Zsófia Pályi

(1982, Budapest)

Zsófia Pályi obtained her BA in photography from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2010. Prior to that, she earned an MA in communication and Portuguese studies from Eötvös Loránd University. For nine years, she worked for Origo. Today, she mostly works for cultural institutions and focuses on her own long-term projects. She has won the József Pécsi Scholarship three times and numerous awards at the Hungarian Press Photo competitions. Her series Balaton received a Coeur de Coeur ANI nomination at the Perpignan Photo Festival in 2014 and was a finalist in the LensCulture Portrait Awards competition in 2015. Her series Penitents was shortlisted at the international competitions Helsinki Photo Awards and Kolga Tbilisi Photo Awards. She was a member of the board of the Studio of Young Photographers from 2013 to 2015. She is a member of the Pictorial Collective.