Sándor Bojár Szeged / Csongrád , 1914.08.16. - 2000.01.31., Budapest

1932: he graduated from the Eötvös József Real Secondary School. He learned to be an electrician at her parents' request, but later he went to a photographer school, and in 1934 he passed the assistant exam.

1934: he studied at Tibor Inkey, remembering that he learned the most important things from Escher and Erno Vadas.

Until the end of 1935 he was photographed at the Inkey Photo Report Company and then he worked at the Evening Courier from late 1935 to 1939.

1942-1945: as a labor serviceman he visited the Don bend. During this time, Inkey kept his pictures, negatives, and equipment.

After 1945: he photographed for a short time for the Szabad Nép. Afterwards, he became a member of the Police Press Office, where he served as Lieutenant.

1948: the press office was demolished, then went to the Theater  Magazine (1948-1950), then to the Hungarian Day (1950-1951)

1952: he was the reporter for the Hungarian Photo, and after 1956 for its successor, for MTI, where he worked until 1964 as columnist of sports department. From there he went to the Ország-Világhoz.

After his retirement (December 31, 1976), he became the photo reporter of the Autó Motor until 1988. He lived through almost all the domestic events of the twentieth century. The unprecedented poverty, the Jewish laws and the Holocaust, the Second World War, fifty-six, the building of socialism, which emerged from the Great Depression. He saw Thomas Mann, Horthy, Sári Fedák and Katalin Karády, Mussolini and Szálasi on the gallows and Rákosi, Gerő and everyone who played a role in the historical play. Not only did he see, but he photographed it all.

His photos can be found in the MTI archive, at the Hungarian Museum of Photography, at the Museum of Theater History.

Honors:

1976 Silver for Home Service, 1977. Bronze Degree of Work Order of Merit, EFIAP, 1984. MUOSZ Golden Pen, 1986. Socialist Culture, 1991. Béla Balázs Award, 1999. Márton Munkácsi Award for the Life of the Hungarian Society of Photojournalists, Hungarian Republic Order of Merit, Civil Cross, MFSZ Life Award

Exhibitions:

1964. Thirty years with a photojournalist eye, Ernő Vadas Exhibition Hall, Budapest, 1974 Chronicle of 1934-1974 Sándor Bojár Ernst Museum Budapest, 2001. Hungarian Photo Press 2000 and Sándor Bojár memorial exhibition. Hungarian National Museum

Works in public collections:

MFM, Kecskemét, Hungarian National Museum Historical Photo Gallery, Budapest, MTI archive