Tamás Szigeti

(1956, Budapest)

Tamás Szigeti obtained a professional certificate in photography at the Vocational School of Photography in Budapest between 1976 and 1978. He worked for the weekly magazine Kertészet és Szőlészet (Horticulture and Viticulture) from 1977. He obtained a degree in photojournalism from the Association of Hungarian Journalists’ Bálint György Academy of Journalism in 1983. He was a photojournalist for the daily Magyar Hírlap from 1986 to 1992, as well as the head of the paper’s photo department and its photo editor from 1993 to 2001. Later, he worked as a photo editor for Best Magazin, 168 Óra, and Figyelő. He has been taking report and event photos as well as portraits on commission from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2012. He has won several awards at the Hungarian Press Photo competitions since 1982. He was president of the Association of Hungarian Photojournalists from 2005 to 2008 and curator of the Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition for several years from 2015. He received the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2020. For nearly a decade and a half, he has been creating unique double portraits of well-known figures in Hungarian public life, including artists, musicians, writers, politicians, scientists and athletes.