Ferenc Veress, photographer from Kolozsvár, was the first in the Hungarian history of photography who gained world-wide reputation, especially through his colour photographs. However, it is not only because of heliochromies exhibited at the 1898 world exhibition in Paris that make Veress the most important Hungarian photographer of the last century. He recorded Transsylvanian aristocrats on countless portraits, took landscape photographs of the most beautiful Transsylvanian landscapes and Kolozsvár, made photo porcelain, experimented with the further development of photographic techniques throughout his life, started the first Hungarian photographic magazine and gave the first university lectures in Photography. The life of this extraordinary photographer is presented not only by the study of Károly Kincses, but by 150 photographs of Ferenc Veress, himself