Born in Budapest, Besnyö was brought up in a well-to-do Jewish home to father Bela Blumengrund and mother Ilona Kelemen. Her father was a lawyer who changed his name to a Hungarian sounding one in order to get ahead. She grew up fluent in Hungarian and German. In 1928, instead of attending university like her [...]
I am one of those really annoying people that want everything to happen over night. It does not mean that I will not be putting in the work to achieve it, it just means that I am extremely impatient. The great thing about putting the work is that amazing things happen when you are not [...]
While at work yesterday and contemplating packing everything in and just walk out, I came across today's image and the condition in which I captured it. First of all, it was in the dead of winter, it was snowing and by the time I put my camera on the tripod I could no longer feel [...]
"Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest" - Lisette Model Lisette Model was born in Vienna, where she studied piano and compositional theory with Arnold Schönberg before moving to Paris. She discontinued her musical career in 1933, and discovered photography through her sister Olga and her friend Rogi André, André Kertész's [...]
Alice Austen was an American photographer born the 17th of March, 1866. Austen became interested in photography when her uncle, Oswald Müller, brought home a camera around 1876. Alice's uncle Peter Townsend Austen was a chemistry professor at Rutgers who taught her photographic processing. Peter and Oswald converted a closet on the second floor into Alice's [...]
When I first moved to London st the age of 13, I was a little terrified. Everything was new, the city was big, loud with too many people that spoke a language that I barely understood. As the days and the years went buy, I grew to know it and love it. I made life [...]
Lately I've been struggling to answer this question lately. They are many reasons as to why. I've always praised myself on being self motivated but lately my inspiration along with my motivation have simply dwindled. Since then, I've been asking myself why am I creative? I've never thought of myself as a creative before I [...]
