Always have the courage to look behind the words people tell you so you can understand why they say the things they say.
I am a photographer, author and educator, working at the crossroads of art, documentary, and commission-based photography. My life has followed a winding path that took shape around my interest in different people, countries, languages and cultures. Capturing authentic, honest moments and searching for our shared human stories has been the guiding force behind my creative work.
I was born and raised in Hungary. I lived in Israel in the mid-1990s and I moved to the United States in the year 2000. I have a Law Degree (ELTE Budapest, Hungary), and an MA in Africana Studies (SUNY Stony Brook, NY).
I am a self-taught narrative, documentary and commercial photographer.
My visual work is inspired by the classical, artistic style of 20th century Eastern Europe, and by the adventurous cinematographic style of the United States. I have been doing freelance work for a long line of private clients, and worked for studios and companies, such as MOM365 (newborn photography), Park Ave Studio and Silverfox Studios (weddings), LifeTouch (event and sports photography at high schools).
My photography won numerous awards at international competitions in portrait, deeper perspective, people, personal portfolio, lifestyle and wedding categories.
Written and academic work
I believe in the importance of context and nuance. I know from experience that real life is almost never binary.
My graduate research focused on the Caribbean, specifically on language, religion and politics in Haiti.
My documentary projects explore the complexities and inner contradictions that characterize us, human beings. Focusing on similarities, rather than on differences between cultures or geographic regions, my work emphasized the common threads and themes that connect us across time and space.
I speak Hungarian, English, Spanish, French and Hebrew.
Motherhood
Alongside writing, photographing and working as an educator, I spent many years as a full-time mother, raising my two children. I taught them to be fully bi-lingual, curious human beings, who grew up straddling cultures and distances through personal experience, conversations, and reading. I am proud to have dedicated a lot of time to being a full-time parent, teaching my children to read, write, cook, work hard, be curious, not to fear what is unknown, and to laugh a lot. I taught them the importance of becoming conscientious, informed members of the wider human community, with full awareness that there is a whole world out there, beyond the conveniences and the challenges of their own lives.