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1906 (Budapest) He studied medical science, later in 1924-1928 political science he planned to go in for diplomacy, acquired a doctoral degree in Vienna and Heidelberg.
He started his journalist career as a correspondent in Italy for a German press agency in 1928. His first photographs were taken in Latin-America. "One day my general editor announced that next week I am travelling to Brasil. I thought I could take the advantage of this report to take some photographs for myself, just to remember. I bought a Leica. When I returned Berliner Illustrirte published some of my reports and pictures."
From that time on he set up for a journey almost every year: in 1930-1931: Italy (he made an exclusive interview with Mussolini). In 1932-1933: Belgium, Germany, Holland, and Great Britain. In the following year: Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. Then: Morocco, Senegal... and so on. He visited every continent and perhaps every country except Mongolia.
In 1938 he settled down in France and photographed as a foreign reporter of the French government among others in Kamerun, Ivory Coast, Jibuti, Réunion-islands, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Congo and Namibia. From 15th October 1944 he worked for the headquarters of the American army as the official Swiss reporter. From 1952 he was an official photographer for UNESCO, FAO, and UNICEF. As a teacher of the French Journalists' Education Centre he has taught generations of journalists and press photographers. His works were exhibited in Hungary in 1973 and 1987, then in 1992 in the Hungarian Museum of Photography. |
