Magdolna Vékás

(1956, Budapest)

Magdolna Vékás obtained her qualification as a photographer at the Dési Huber István Vocational School in 1977, after which she worked as the photographer of the Semmelweis Museum of Medical History for ten years. Following this, she worked as a freelance photographer for museums and book publishers. She taught applied photography at the THÉBA Academy of Arts and later became the photography teacher at the Alternative Secondary School of Economics. Until her retirement, she taught traditional photographic processes at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She was a member of the Studio of young Photographers From 1977 to 1981 and of the Association of Hungarian Photographers from 1982. She was a founding member of the First Creative Group. She has been exhibiting her works since 1980, typically using historical photographic processes (cyanotype, albumen, salted paper and chromotype). A retrospective of her work was held at the Mai Manó House in 2007. Volumes: Cyanotypes (1997), Fragments of the City (2000), and Space Travel (2007). In 1998, she was awarded the Károly Divald Memorial Plaque and received the main prize at the Biennale in Esztergom. She won the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2000.