Gábor Arion Kudász was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1978. He is
a photographer, and associate professor at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Arion's photographic work incorporates staged and fictional elements into documentary photography. He strongly believes that the artist's intention to tell the truth justifies his actions and that manipulation is necessary for a deeper understanding of the truth within the image. Since 2000, Arion has been interested in various topics related to human presence. Generally landscape-oriented works dealt with urban development, environmental issues, and tourism, until in 2010 triggered by a family tragedy, he took a sharp shift towards private histories and the workings of memory and radicalized his approach to the image as document. Currently, the interplay of human ambition and technology is the focus of his work. He investigates the why and how an individual takes part in the larger actions of society.
He studied Photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, where he was offered a position following his diploma. He has been teaching ever since, since 2013 in the Photography Master program and since 2017 in the Doctoral School. His works were acknowledged by several awards and scholarships, among them the Balogh Rudolf Award of the Hungarian Republic in 2013, the Robert Capa Grand Prize in 2015, and the scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of the Arts in 2018. Arion offers workshops, and exhibitions and regularly publishes limited-edition artist books.
Arion is a father of three children. He lives in Budapest.
