Paul Almásy Budapest, 1906 - 2003, Thoiry

He graduated from Berzsenyi High School and studied political science in Budapest, Vienna, Heidelberg. He graduated in 1928. He became a journalist and was the first photojournalist , who crossed the Sahara.  He illustrated his reports with photos, which is appearing in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung. From 1937 he lives in Paris. From 1938 he photographed the French colonies as foreign correspondents of the French government.  From 1940 he photographed in Europe for three years as an official correspondent of the Swiss government. Subsequently, until the end of World War II. He was an official correspondent beside the US Army Chiefship. Between 1945 and 1949 he captures the traces of Europe 's war destruction. Between 1950 and 1951 he is the official correspondent of the Allied Commander-in-Chief (SHAPE), photographing the Indochina War, Australia, Oceania. From 1952 he was the official correspondent of WHO, UNESCO, ILO, FAO. In 1961 he created a Togo photo archive and prepares for WHO Life of Eskimos titled photo documentation.  He went around the world and made photos, turned around in almost all countries of the world. In his pictures the horror, destruction, and unimaginable poverty are never a sense of sensationalism. Paul Almásy was primarily a humanist, he was still… From Photographing, press photo. Bp., 1979 and other books, lectures, thousands of photographers learned. There are hundreds of thousands of images in his archive. In 1970 he was appointed Executive Director of the French National Museum of Photography. From 1972 he was a teacher at the French Journalist Training Center. From 1972 for twelve years he was the president of the Europhot Photojournalist Group. In 1975 he became a member of the International Press Office (IPI). In 1978 he organized an exhibition in France titled Hungarian Photography (1850-1980).  He has been teaching at home since the 1980s, he is the teacher of the Bálint György Journalist School and the International Journalist School. From 1984 he is a jury member of World Press Photo. In 1987 he was awarded the Order of the Hungarian People's Republic. In 1991 he became an honorary member of the MFSZ.