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GÁBOR KEREKES (born August 2, 1945 and died April 16, 2014)
He was born in a small German village, in Oberhart, on 2 August 1945. He completed his studies at the Photographers Vocational Training School and began his career in 1971 with a Voigtlander camera he had received as a gift: for the first two years, he was an assistant reporter at the Budapest Photographers’ Co-operative, and then until 1979 he photographed at the Siderurgical Research Institute. From the mid-1980s he was a photojournalist for the weekly Képes 7, and later for Képes Európa, and then became a freelance photographer and artist. From the early 1990s, his technical repertoire extended from the various methods of camera obscura, through the historical photographic processes, all the way up to the Polaroid and digital photography. A special characteristic of Gábor Kerekes’s photographs is the respect for knowledge in the natural sciences, both in terms of subject matter and execution.

His works are held in important European public and private collections: Galerie der Stadt, Esslingen; Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét; Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne; M. Ken Damy, Brescia; National Museum of Film, Television and Photography, Bradford, and the Körmendi-Csák Collection of 20th Century Hungarian Photography.