One of the greatest figures of Hungarian photo art was 85 years old last year. Our exhibition is to honor the Cegléd resident István Tóth, the man who once photographed the Blaskovich brothers. There may mot be another photo artist from Hungary who has won so many awards and prizes all over the world, from Japan to South-America, in Europe and Asia, but István Tóth. However, he remained faithful to Cegléd where he has lived all his life.

István Tóth is an emblematic figure of Hungarian photo art, he draws his black-and-white pictures with light. Many of these pictures are owned by the most illustrious museums in the world. István Tóth received 328 international prizes at 2200 exhibitions in 52 countries in the world. Probably the most significant of these was the Eminent Photographer of the Century Prize (New York, 1980). He was the first to win the photography Oscar.

Some of the most significant awards he received: Balázs Béla Award: 1979, UNESCO Award: 1985, Merited Artist: 1986, Honorary Citizen of Cegléd: 1996, Hungarian Photo Artists' Association Oeuvre Award: 1998, Republic of Hungary Decoration Cross: 1998, For the Art of Pest County: 2000, My Country Award: 2009.