For years, a small voice lingered in the back of my mind — what if we looked beyond our everyday struggles that shake us up and throw us off balance every day? Working as a portrait and press photographer for almost twenty years, I found myself increasingly drawn to a quieter, more balanced way of living. After an exceptionally frenetic period in our lives, moving from Budapest to the Paris region with my wife, we eventually bought a small vacation house in the Creuse. We both felt the need to step back from our busy city routines, and this magnificent region of France — one of the least densely populated — offered us an idyllic opportunity.

I began remembering my childhood more often — the sensations, the atmosphere. Life seemed peaceful, yet the world felt immense and mysterious. As the pieces slowly fell into place, it struck me that what I wanted the most was to return to analogue, slow photography: to explore with a large‑format camera the landscape I’m lucky to have around me, but also to explore myself and that longing for the peaceful feeling I remember from childhood. 

To mark this shift, I decided to take up the name Buhman — my grandfather’s name. He was a keen amateur photographer, and I believe he was the one who first set me on my photographic path by revealing the magical world of photography when I was just a toddler.

Background:
Arrived in France in 2022
Graduated in art history in 2013
Professional photographer since 2008
Graduated in photojournalism in 2008
Languages spoken: English, French, Russian and Hungarian