Havadi-Nagy-Dávid István
Biogram
I am a photographer based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and studied photography at the Art and Design University. Currently, I am conducting my Ph.D. research at the same university with a focus on light as a means of expression in the photographic image as a contemporary art practice.
I have always considered the immediate surrounding reality (the landscape, the city, the objects, and the people) a basis to be transformed into uncanny, and a means to convey emotions, personal ideas, and new meanings. Figurative and abstract representations intermingle in achieving this visual desire. Some of the major themes I explore in my artworks are the relationship with our surroundings, the emotional impact of the urban landscape, human presence in the world, outward-looking manifestations of a belief system, and the geometry of the mundane.
As I focus on several different aesthetic approaches and different themes in my artworks, I use a variety of photographic techniques ranging from digital to analog photography and a wide range of historic and alternative printing. Recently I commenced practice-based research into the usage of the so-called prompt-photography by artificial intelligence.
Havadi-Nagy-Dávid István