Tamas Dezso (b. 1978) is a documentary photographer working on long-term projects focusing on
the margins of society in Hungary, Romania and in other parts of Eastern Europe. His
photographs have been published in TIME, The New York Times, National Geographic, GEO,
Le Monde Magazine, The Sunday Times, PDN, Ojo de Pez, HotShoe, The British Journal of
Photography and many others.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, United States
2012 BOZAR, Palais des Beaux-Arts / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Varfok Gallery, Project Room, Budapest, Hungary
2011 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2011 Duke University, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, United States
2011 New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, United States
2011 Biennale Mediations, Poznan, Poland
2011 Half King Gallery, New York, United States
2011 Chobi Mela VI, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2011 Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2009 Foto Art Festival, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
2006 Photographer of the Year, House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Paris Photo Los Angeles - Robert Koch Gallery
2013 Hungarian Art Photography in the New Millennium
National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012 UNM Art Museum - Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece
Albuquerque, United States
2012 Inside/Outside, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, United States
2012 PhotoIreland Festival, Magazines on the Wall, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Paris Photo - Robert Koch Gallery
2012 Photoville, Photo District News (PDN), Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York City
2012 Expo Chicago - Robert Koch Gallery
2012 Kunsthaus Hamburg, JCE 10, Hamburg, Germany
2012 AIPAD New York - Robert Koch Gallery
2012 What is Hungarian? Contemporary Answers, Kunsthalle, Budapest
2012 BeLa Editions, JCE Grand Prize, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Tower Museum, Foto Foyle, Open Submission, Derry City, United Kingdom
2011 Paris Photo - Robert Koch Gallery
2011 The Terry O'Neill Tag Awards, HotShoe Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2011 Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, Montrouge, Paris, France
2011 Belfast Photo Festival, Waterfront Hall, Belfast, United Kingdom
2011 Active Witness - 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London, United Kingdom
2011 Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
2011 Young Contemporary Statements, Pecs, Hungary
2011 Budapest Positive, House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
2010 HumanKind, powerHouse Arena, New York Photo Festival, New York City
2010 East Side Story – Chroniques d’Europe centrale, HSBC, Paris, France
2010 Foto8 Summer Show, HOST Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010 Live Sync. – Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2010 Crane Kalman Brighton Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
2010 Present Continuous, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia
2009 ArtDepoo Gallery, Tallin, Estonia
2009 TR54, Tampere, Finland
2009 Lishui Photo Festival, Lishui, China
2009 Present Continuous, Fotofo, Bratislava, Slovakia
2008 Caja de Luz, Barcelona, Spain
2006 World Press Photo 2006
2006 Risk, FOAM Photo Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 Budapest Feeling, Krakow Photo Month, Krakow, Poland
2005 Hungary Today – Frankfurt, Berlin, Germany
2005 UN Pavilion, EXPO 2005, Aichi, Japan
SELECTED AWARDS
2013 American Photography 29
2012 Nominated for the Prix Pictet
2012 Photolucida CM Top 50 and Solo Exhibition Award
2012 Finalist for the 2012 Leica Oskar Barnack Award
2012 Photo Essay winner, PDN's The Curator
2011 Project Competition winner
16th Annual Center Awards, Santa Fe, United States
2011 Project Prize winner
Daylight/CDS Photo Awards
2011 Grand Prize
Biennale Jeune Création Européenne
Montrouge, Paris, France
2011 Terry O’Neill Award, finalist
2006 PDN Photo Annual
2006 World Press Photo, Joop Swart Masterclass
2006 World Press Photo, Daily Life stories II.prize
2006 Pictures of the Year Competition (POYi)
Magazine Photographer of the Year
Magazine Feature Story I.prize
Pictorial I.prize
2006 Best Of Photojournalism (NPPA)
2006 Photographer of the Year, Hungary
2005 W.Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, finalist
2005 European Central Bank Photography Award I.prize
2005 Photographer of the Year, Hungary
2004 Photography Grant of Budapest