Gábor Sióréti

(1969, Budapest)

After graduating with a degree in electrical engineering, Gábor Sióréti worked as an assistant cameraman at the Hungarian Television and completed a degree in photography at the Szellemkép Free School. He is a member of the RANDOM group. He produced reports and portraits for various weekly magazines in Hungary and abroad from 1996 to 2000. He has been a photojournalist for the weekly Magyar Narancs since 1997 and its photo editor since 2003. He was a teacher at the Photopress photography school from 2007 to 2009 and has been a teacher at the Szellemkép Free School since 2010. His photography album Shadow City was published in 2011. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. He received an honourable mention from the jury of the International Photography Award in 2012. He won the third prize in the Hungarian Press Photo Competition and received an honourable mention by Magnum Photos – Capa Portfolio Review in 2014. He earned an honourable mention from the jury of the PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris in 2015. In 2023, he reported from war-torn Ukraine and began working with photographer Zsolt Balázs on a documentary photo series about the refugee crisis. He won support from the international competition of Internews in 2024.