Friday, August 04, 2006

Péter Horváth: Layers

Péter Horváth: Layers at [origo] Galéria. "...Péter Horváth started working for MTI, the Hungarian News Agency as press photographer in 1971. Was photo editor of the weekly Magyar Ifjúság from 1976 to 1981. Staffer of Képes 7 from 1986 to 1989, he did covers and photessays. In 1989 he was staff photographer of the weeklies Európa and Reform. Presently he works for Axel-Springer Publishers. In addition to his photos published, his works have appeared at several exhibitions. He often uses special photo-techniques; he has made extensive use of the computer in recent years. His major subjects are people on the periphery of society, the inhabitans of city housing estates. The Hungarian House of Photography in Budapest showed his computed photomontages of recent years at a major exhibition in 1999. He was awarded the Béla Balázs Prize."