Csilla Szabo

…following patterns and forms
that the mysterious phenomenon of light
inevitably draws…

Csilla Szabó, fine art photographer and analogue B&W printer, born in Budapest, lives and works in Berlin.

After studying photography in Budapest, she moved to Berlin where she became the apprentice of fine-arts photographer Jeff Cowen, a position she held for many years. While there, she was trained in the art of traditional silver black-and-white printing of large-format photographs on a masterful level, including numerous alternative processes.

She then became a professional printer; over the past years she has printed exhibitions for international artists such as Antanas Sutkus, Per Christian Brown, Arja Hyytiainen and Christina Glanz. She also conducts printing and portfolio workshops in her darkroom in Berlin, and she was a guest lecturer in the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin.

Parallel to her commissioned printing works and teaching practices, she’s been diligently creating her own photographic works of art. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and her works can be found in different art collections, such as that of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Budapest and private collections in New York, Nashville, Paris, Hong-Kong, Berlin, and Budapest.