Balázs Zoltán Tóth
Chief Museologist (Photo Archive)
He graduated in 2005 from the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at SZTE BTK and from the Department of Cultural Organising and Media at SZTE-JGYTFK. From 2008 to 2010 he was a student at The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava. In 2013, he was a fellow at NEDCC, Andover, USA. In 2019, he received his PhD in Aesthetics from the ELTE BTK Doctoral School of Philosophy.
As a writer, editor and curator, he is an active participant in the Hungarian photographic scene. From 2008 to 2015 he was a member of the Studio of Young Photographers, of which he was a board member from 2011 until 2013. From 2005 until 2019 he worked as a research associate at the Hungarian Museum of Photography, and from 2018 to 2019 as curator at the Mai Manó House. He has been a member of the Hungarian Society for the History of Photography since 2020. He has taught at several universities and is currently a guest lecturer at the Metropolitan University. As of 2022, he is the Chief Museologist of the Photo Archive of KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK).