Csaba KONCZ

1938, Rábakecöl – 2022, Balatonhenye

He began his higher education at the Budapest University of Technology in 1957. He did not complete his degree but instead joined the avant-garde intellectual circle associated with the legendary Muskátli café in Váci Street. He became a leading figure of Hungarian neo-avant-garde photography with his photographs strongly influenced by graphic art. He emigrated in 1967 and spent decades as a travelling hippie musician in various countries of Western Europe and Asia. He returned to Hungary in 1992. In recognition of his life’s work, he received the István Szőts Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Arts’ Section of Film and Photography in 2018.