Péter Korniss

Péter Korniss (born August 4, 1937) is a Hungarian photographer and photojournalist. For several decades he was working for ''Nők Lapja'' (a Hungarian weekly women's magazine) as a photojournalist and photo editor. His documentary work focused on the disappearing peasant life of Transylvania and Hungary. He is also known for his album ''The Guest Worker'', in which he captured the life of a commuting guest worker over a ten years period.

From the 1990s onwards, he began to work with posed portraits as well. In the early stage of his career, he made only black and white photographs, but since the 1990s he has also exhibited colour photographs. He was the first photographer to win the Kossuth Prize in 1999. Provided by Wikipedia