György Stalter

(1956, Budapest)

György Stalter is a subjective documentary photographer. After finishing secondary school, he obtained a professional photographer’s certificate and then worked as a photojournalist in the press. He has been a freelance photographer since 1990. He established an independent photography studio in 1995, and together with Gábor Kerekes, taught photography for more than 20 years under the title Art and Craft. Together with his wife, Judit M. Horváth, he spent several years photographing Hungary’s gypsy settlements and the increasingly ghetto-like neighbourhoods of Budapest. Their joint work resulted in the photo album Another World in 1998, the material of which has been exhibited in several places in Hungary, Europe and the USA. He won the Budapest Photography Scholarship from the Pro Urbis Foundation of the City of Budapest in 2006 and a Moholy-Nagy Scholarship in 2011. He works on longterm projects, having photographed the life and subculture of the Rákosrendező railway station for nearly ten years. He won the Rudolf Balogh Award in 1977 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Hungarian Photographers in 2023. He received a certificate of recognition from the Hungarian Academy of Arts in 2024. The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and the Photojournalism Section of the Association of Hungarian Journalists granted him the Photojournalism Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.