András Bánkuti Budapest, 1958.05.17.

1978: obtained a photographic worker's certificate, and later graduated from the photographic journal at the Bálint György Journalist School of MUOSZ

He became a trainee for a New Mirror, later a photo reporter at Magyar Szemle and Magyar Hírlap.

1992–1993: photo reporter at Köztársaság

1994–1995: photo reporter at Reform

From1995: photo reporter at HVG then head of the photo heading until 2011

Later he was employee of Figyelő

He captured almost everything from the theater and dance photo to the Moscow coup, from the leatherheads to the Matthias Square prostitutes. His pictures appeared in numerous newspapers and books, in the New York Times and Guardian.

In the early 1990s: worked for the Balck Star photo agency.

As a photojournalist entering the half world, he captures the events, figures, or even the great personalities of everyday life.

Titled Russian People 2006he published his Soviet-Russian reports. One of his emblematic photographs, the Sunset, depicting the huge Lenin head down to the ground at the KGB headquarters in Moscow.

He is one of the founders of the Mai Manó House with Kolta Magdolna and Károly Kincses, one of the organizers of the reconstruction of the house, his repeatedly appointed director, one of the editors of press photos, yearbooks, members of the board of trustees and the management of photo organizations. Editor of the Photoriporter periodicals and Photo Catalogs accompanying the Hungarian Press Photo Exhibitions. At the moment, the editor-in-chief of the Digital Photo Magazine. In 1999 he won the André Kertész Scholarship, with which he prepared the material for the Paris Nightsexhibition.

Awards, honors:In 1983, the International Journalist Association awarded the International Master of Press Photography. In 1991 she won a Grand Prize at Interpress Foto. In 1993, he received the Balogh Rudolf Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. Mihály Táncsics prize winner. Member of the Hungarian Press Center since 1995.

Exhibitions:Attack in Moscow [with T. László Balogh and Csilla Cseke]. 1991. András Bánkuti's collection exhibition Demeter Gallery (internet gallery) 2002. The lights of Paris Mai Manó House Budapest, 2002. The 30-year-old Győr Ballet Bethlen Gallery, Budapest, 2010, András Bánkuti photo exhibition Ungvár. 2016 The exhibition shows seventy pictures of the moment of Ukrainian weekdays. András Bánkuti's exhibition Paris, Hungarian Institute 2018.

Books:Worth values InterArt Publisher, Budapest, 2003. The Gyor Ballet published Győri Balett, Győr 1999. People in the Soviet world and in the russian world. National Association of Hungarian Journalists, Budapest, 2007.