Hello. My name is Levente, and I am a Hungarian documentary photographer currently based in the United Kingdom. In my professional work, I aim to explore the commercial opportunities within documentary photography, leveraging the traditional values of the genre for business and brand storytelling. My personal work explores broader themes, largely related to my interest in sociology – I’m fascinated by different cultures, places, and environments.

Being gifted a camera as a 10-year-old kid is what started it all for me. By the time I became a teenager, I taught myself the technical side of the medium. After that, I began working as a freelance photographer, taking occasional gigs as they came. However, it soon became clear that something was missing; the work I was producing wasn’t up to the standard that I wanted.

So, I decided to leave my homeland behind and moved from Budapest to London. It was a rough start and a very challenging time, but in 2021 I was accepted into the best photography course in the United Kingdom at the time and moved to Edinburgh to spend the next four years improving on my previous shortcomings. I did exactly that by immersing myself in the history and culture surrounding the medium, realizing how much more it is than just a technical skill.

There are two things I’m most thankful for from these four years: discovering and understanding documentary and film photography. Before my studies, I had never worked with 35mm film, and I hadn’t even heard of 120mm. By now, 120mm film has become an essential part in my personal work, and I’m very eager to find suitable professional projects where the format could work. Through documentary, I learned how to build a story using a sequence of photographs, and projects such as El Chef Comilon or About The Trees made it possible to experience how amazing it is to meet and immerse myself in the lives of strangers, creating a portfolio for them while doing so.

I’m also fond of photo books. I think they’re a beautiful way to present work and offer an intimate, personal experience when engaging with a photographic project. I’m sure they will become a key element in my pursuit of reimagining commercial photography, which is now my professional focus.