Budapest, Hungary – Artist Profile

From Pharmacy to Photography: The Poetic Vision of Szingy (György Németh) – György Németh, known under the artistic name Szingy, is a Budapest-based photographer, writer, and pharmacist who creates quiet, poetic reflections on everyday life. Born in 1959, Németh spent decades in the pharmaceutical profession before gradually turning toward the arts. His transition was not radical but organic—an evolution from observing the body to observing the soul.

Szingy’s photography is rooted in the urban landscape of Budapest, focusing on small, overlooked details: a worn bench, a fading statue, a shadow on a wall. His images are often black-and-white, highlighting textures, contrasts, and time-worn beauty. Yet what truly distinguishes his work is the intimate pairing of image and text—each photograph is accompanied by a short caption or thought, written by the artist, that adds depth, ambiguity, or emotional resonance. 
“I don’t know if the world is beautiful. But I want to see it. Because what we look at—even for a moment—becomes ours.” – Szingy

Over the past decade, Szingy has built an extensive online gallery, blog, and social media presence, under the umbrella of Szingy Gallery Budapest. While his work has appeared in pop-up exhibitions, much of his artistic activity remains digitally accessible—inviting a global audience to engage with his introspective visual world.

His style offers a counterpoint to modern visual overload: slow, quiet, observational. It asks the viewer not to be impressed, but to feel. Not to consume, but to pause. Not to scroll, but to stay.
 “A photograph is not a memory. It’s a question: were you really there?” – Szingy