People nominee

Sleeping by the River is a visual journey through the fading towns and villages along Hungary’s Sajó River. This series captures the quiet resilience of those who remain, set against a backdrop of abandonment and slow decline. Life lingers in stark frames—people stay, the river moves, and time carves its own path through the landscape. Inspired by classic documentary photography, the project offers an intimate, unsentimental look at a region caught between past and present, survival and disappearance.

I am a Romani and queer artist working with photography, installation, and participatory practices. My work explores identity, displacement, and resistance, confronting the ways marginalized communities are erased or misrepresented. Through visual storytelling, I reclaim narratives that expose inequality and open space for presence. My projects have been published in The Guardian and Balkan Insight, and exhibited internationally in institutions such as Queer Britain (London), Stiftung Kai Dikhas (Berlin), LoosenArt Gallery (Rome), and the 2025 Milan Triennale. Most recently, my work is featured alongside Delaine Le Bas and other queer artists in Stranger in Silver Walking on Air at The White House, Dagenham.

- Scholarship holder - (HU) Józsefváros 30+ Artistic Creative Support in Memory of Lajos Balogh - 2025
Gomma Grant 2024 - Finalist
- Official Selection - IPA Awards 2024
- Honorable Mention - Annual Photography Awards 2024
- In Plain Sight’ - Habib Hajallie Arts Council funded mentorship & exhibition project, 2024
-Journalism Excellence Awards - Ethical reporting on Roma and fight against racism and antigypsyism, Shortlisted in photojournalism category, 2024
- Annual Photography Awards - Shortlisted 2023-2024
- Fine Art Photography Awards - Conceptual 2nd place winner, 2024
- FAPA Professional Portrait, Photojournalism, People nominee, 2022-25