About the Artist

Nóra Fanni Zentay

Nóra Fanni Zentay uses alternative photographic processes as a form of hybrid visual expression. With lumen prints and cyanotypes, she paints with lights and shadows. She makes photograms without a camera and creates chemigrams, which means painting with photographic chemicals. Her art focuses on capturing the everchanging, uncertain state of nature. She focuses on human vulnerability as our natural condition. To express this insecure state of being, she works with accidental tools, broken materials or expired photographic papers damaged by time.

Biography

Nóra Fanni Zentay was born in 1987 in Budapest. She is a Hungarian visual artist and researcher. She earned an MA in Graphic Design from the University of Hertfordshire (IDI), UK and completed the Doctoral Programme in Film, Media and Contemporary Culture at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. She is an external lecturer and researcher as a PhD candidate. During her postgraduate studies, she has developed a hybrid art practice through analogue printmaking including traditional graphic printmaking (monotype, collagraph print) and alternative photographic printing processes such as cyanotype, vandyke, lumen, chemigram and chemilumen processes.