Tamás Révész

(1946, Budapest)

Tamás Révész has been working as a photojournalist and photo editor since the late 1960s. From the 1980s, he has been publishing in the international press (Liberation, Le Nouvel Observateur, the International Herald Tribune, Stern, Europeo, Panorama, Newsweek, the International Wildlife Magazine, People, the Guardian, Tomorrow, Africa Environment & Wildlife). Photo albums: Farewell to the Gypsy Camp (1977), Csaba Goes to Hospital (1982), Parliament (1985), Sicily (1987), Rome (1988), Buda Castle District (1989), American West (1993), Budapest, a City at the Turn of the Millennium (1996), New York (2000), Budapest (2000, 2002), Ziza, First Year of a Poodle Puppy (2024), What Kind of Building Is Catharsis (2024). He has had almost 100 solo exhibitions all over the world. Major awards: Knight of the Royal Order, Béla Balázs Award, World Press Photo, Pulitzer Prize, Howard Chapnick Award (USA). He was a founder of the photojournalism programme at the Metropolitan University Budapest (METU). For more than three decades, he has been the organiser of the World Press Photo exhibition and curator of its associated exhibitions. He has been living in the United States and in Budapest since 1996.