István Virágvölgyi

István Virágvölgyi (Budapest, Hungary, April 4, 1982 –) Hungarian photo editor, curator. Currently he is curator at the Robert Capa Center for Contemporary Photography. (Budapest, Hungary), secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary, and editor of the Weekly Fortepan blog
He studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing, photography and earned a master’s degree from library and information studies at Eötvös Loránd University in 2009. In 2013, he spent a semester as a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford.
He worked for the leading Hungarian news website Origo from 2007 to 2011, first as photo editor and later as the head of photography. He then led the photo desk of MTI Hungarian News Agency from 2011 to 2014. From 2014 to 2019, he lectured about photojournalism and photo editing at the Budapest Metropolitan University (formerly Budapest College of Communication and Business). He has been curator of the Capa Center and secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary since 2014, and editor of the Weekly Fortepan blog since 2020. He has been the member of numerous jury panles and regularly attends international portfolio reviews as a photography expert.
* Tamás Urbán: Unwanted Butterfly. March 5 – August 23, 2020, Capa Center (Budapest, Hungary)
* Guest + Appearance (Péter Németh Sz., Ákos Stiller, Éva Szombat, Éva Boglárka Zellei). March 21 – September 6, 2020, Pannonhalma Archabbey (Pannonhalma, Hungary)
* The Past is Yours! Fortepan, a collective and free digital photo archive. August 6–23, 2020, Fabryka Sztuki, Fotofestiwal international photography festival (Łódź, Poland)
* Walls of Power. Man-made barriers throughout Europe. July 1 – August 25, 2019, Maison des Lices, Les Rencontres d'Arles international photography festival (Arles, France)
* Every Past Is My Past. #twentiethcentury #photography #Fortepan. April 16 – September 29, 2019, Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
* Parallel Intersection Showcase. September 14 – October 6, 2019, Capa Center (Budapest, Hungary)
* A Shared House (Orsi Ajpek, János Kummer, Sándor Ujvári). March 21 – November 10, 2017, Pannonhalma Archabbey (Pannonhalma, Hungary)
* Before and After Capa. Images of war by Hungarian photographers 100 years ago and today (István Bielik, Sándor Csudai, Veronika Dévényi, Gyula Sopronyi, Fortepan). May 17–29, 2018, Museum of the City of Skopje (Skopje, Northern Macedonia) and April 7 – June 2, 2017, Balassi Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
* Sharing 10×10 (Attila Balázs, András D. Hajdú, Zsófia Pályi). March 19 – November 11, 2016, Pannonhalma Archabbey (Pannonhalma, Hungary)
* Kiev Unrest (László Beliczay, István Bielik, András Földes, András D. Hajdú, Bálint Hirling, Balázs Szabó, László Végh). March 21–23, 2014, Capa Center (Budapest, Hungary)
* International Association of Art Critics (AICA) 2020–Present
* Pulszky Society – Hungarian Museum Assocation 2016–Present
* Studio of Young Photographers Hungary (FFS) 2007–2017
* National Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) 2006–2014
* Technical Association of Hungarian Paper and Printing Industry (PNYME) 2002–2010
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