ABOUT
Katalin Száraz is a Hungarian fine art photographer, based in Paris. She is mainly specialised in portrait and fashion photography, besides she put big emphasis on her own art projects too.
Kata loves to experiment at the border areas of photography. She is using photography as a tool of therapy and exploration, applying the elements of experimental and narrative photography. Her observations are focused on remembrance, personal archive and the issue of home in the light of living abroad, furthermore the connection between identity and the rootless lifestyle. She experiments a lot at the border areas of photography and mixes different mediums, so her works are characterised by aesthetic diversity, maintaining a specific coherence. Her approach encompasses creating cinematographic staged photography, working with archaic techniques, but building installations as well – depending what is the best tool to express herself, and what it takes to create the demanded atmosphere.
Száraz’s photographs have been widely published and exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Budapest, Berlin, Gothenburg, Bratislava and Vienna.
Katalin graduated with a master’s in photography at the Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and spent six months in the photography department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
PUBLICATIONS
EXHIBITIONS
(selected)
2023 HOUSE OF LUCIE BUDAPEST Girl’s film club Group Exhibition / BUDAPEST
2022 PHOTON GALLERY Going East Group Exhibition/ VIENNA
2022 GALERIJA PHOTON Going East Group Exhibition/ LJUBLJANA
2022 KISCELLI MÚZEUM Budapest Photo Festival EXPERIMENT Group Exhibition / BUDAPEST
2022 GALERIE JOSEPH LE PALAIS ImageNationParis NEW EYES Group Exhibition/ PARIS
2022 K6 GALLERY Budapest Photo Festival FRESH MEAT Group Exhibition / BUDAPEST
2021 ESPACE CÉCILIA F EXCPARIS/ Layers group exhibition / PARIS
2021 BOOMFACTORY/ Inner Outlook group exhibition / MILAN
2021 KUNSTHALLE BUDAPEST/ Images of light group exhibition / BUDAPEST
2020 INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY/ ICPConcerned group exhibition / NEW YORK
2020 HEROINES WAVE "The Enclosed Garden" Online exhibition/ ONLINE
2020 CAPA CENTER/ 8 Weeks group exhibition / BUDAPEST
2020 FLOAT MAGAZINE"The Great Escape" group exhibition/ ONLINE
2017 VILTIN GALLERY/ Everywhere you look group exhibition/ BUDAPEST
2017 EUGÉN & WILLIAM GALLERY/ New Generation group exhibition / GOTHENBURG
2016 OFF FESTIVAL PISZTORY PALACE/ Memories solo exhibition/ BRATISLAVA
2016 BALASSI INSTITUTE/ HomeisNOWhere group Exhibition/ LONDON
2015 FOTOGALERIE WIEN/ Text:Bild Symbiose group exhibition/ VIENNA
2013 CAPA CENTER/ Opening of Capa Center/Capa project group exhibition/ BUDAPEST
2013 HUNGARIAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS/ ESSL Art Award nominee’s exhibition/ BUDAPEST
2013 ART BÁZIS/Gloomy Sunday solo exhibition/ BUDAPEST
2013 DESIGN TERMINAL/ Random:13 group exhibition/ BUDAPEST
AWARDS
2020 DEPOSITPHOTO Authenticity 2.0 II. Place
2020 MANFROTTO/BOOM Inner Outlook Shortlist
2019 ARTHUNGRY Tales/Art/Fashion Shortlist
2013 ESSL ART AWARD Shortlist
2013 BEHANCE PORTFOLIO REVIEW Best Portfolio Appreciation
2011 BUDAPEST POZITíV/ HUNGARIAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHERS II. Place
MEMBERSHIPS
2013- The Studio of Young Photographers
2013-2017 Random Organization
CLIENTS
Werk
CONTACT
katalinszaraz@outlook.com
Paris // + 33 7 66 09 50 66
Budapest // +36 70 21 887 12