Demeter Balla Szentes, 1931 - 2017, Budapest
He was a child of a farmer family in the farmstead around Szentes. In 1950 he came to the capital city.
1950: entered the Ikarus Body and Vehicle Factory, later factory photographer
1957-1969: Capital Photo Company Photo Editor
after 1969: Lapkiadó Publisher Company Photojournalist
He worked for Trade Magazine
from 1977: Photographer of the newspaper "Soviet Union"
1988: He retired from Adam Magazine
For him, creation is not only aesthetic, artistic, but at least as ethical. His photographic activities show a wide variety of genres: Portraits, report photos, landscapes, nudes, and in the latter time, almost exclusively still life.His writings and poems were published in the New Mirror, Life and Literature, Népszabadság, and his drawings were published by C.E.T.
1988: published his first album summarizing their photos and poems titled "Be Your Will".
1999: he founded a Demeter-prize from his private property
Exhibitions:There were more than fifty individual exhibitions in many cities around the world. 1961: Exhibition of Young Photographers, Budapest, 1965: Independent exhibition in Warsaw, (Warszawa Palac Kultury i Nauki Wrzesien) and then in several Polish cities. 1966: Independent exhibition in Tehran, Bejrut, 1968: Exhibition presenting the city of Miskolc, Miskolc, 1971: Faces and homes Petőfi Literary Museum, Budapest, 1978: On the way, Budapest, 1981: Anatomy of the movement Vigadó Gallery Budapest, 1982: The Parliament. Photos of Balla Demeter. Parliament Congress Hall, Budapest, 1988: Be Your Will Photo Gallery, Budapest, Bagatellek French French Institute, Budapest, Festival de l'image Le Mans, France, 2000: János Pilinszky Memorial Exhibition London, 2001: The Old Budapest Gallery, 2008 Pálya utca 77. Mai Manó House, Budapest. 2013 Titanic's pictures Körmendi Gallery and Pintér Sonja Gallery Budapest, Béla Békásmegyer Evangelical Church 2013 (with László Mandúr), Photojournalist Balla Demeter's Images Cultiris Gallery, Budapest, 2014, Solo Prophet Gallery 2016
Awards, honors:1957: VIT Prize, 1964: EFIAP Prize, 1973: Pravda Prize, 1977: Béla Balázs Prize, 1987: Artist of Merit, 2001: Hungarian Artist Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001: Kunszentmárton's Honorary Citizen, 2003: Magyar Art Award, 2004: Kossuth Prize, 201? Nation Artist Award
His books:Miskolc. 1967 Young Hungary Corvina Budapest 1970 (introduction by András Rónai Mihály, German, English, Russian) Balaton. (With the text of Dezső Keresztury) Corvina, Budapest, 1974. Erzsébet Schaár - János Pilinszky: Space and Connection. Magvető Kiadó, Budapest, 1975. On the way Budapest, 1978, Csaba Sík: Tibor Vilt. Corvina Publisher, Budapest, 1979. Székesfehérvár. Corvina Publishing House, Budapest, 1982 (introduction: Márton Kalász), Hungary, Budapest, 1987. Lake Balaton, Budapest, 1989 (Galsai Pongrác bev.) Let your will (photos, poems) be published by Pelikán Kiadó, Budapest, 1994, Titanic's Photos Abovo Publishing House, Budapest, 2004. (foreword: Péter Nádas, Károly Kincses), Pictures Only. Balla Demeter. City Hall Publishing House, Budapest, 2018.
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