József Füles Tóth

(1940, Budapest)

József Tóth Füles was a caricaturist between 1960 and 1965, and worked as an advertising photographer for the Hungarian News Agency Photo from 1960 to 1970. He has been a freelance commercial photographer, illustrator and picture editor since 1970. Major exhibitions: Vigadó Gallery (1986), Hungarian House of Photography (2001 and 2010), Vintage Gallery (2002), Cultural Heritage Protection Office (2009), Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism (2010), Brussels (2011). He won the Béla Balázs Award in 1978, and was recognised with the titles of Artist of Merit and Outstanding Artist in 1988 and 2008, respectively. Main albums: Portrait Gallery of Hungarian Photographers, Medieval Churches in Hungary, Picture Book of Master Füles, Synagogues in Hungary, Petőfi with a Camera, Bridges of Our Past, and 100 Poems, 100 Pictures. His works can be found in the collections of the Hungarian National Museum, the Hungarian House of Photography, the National Széchenyi Library, and the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism.