He became a student of photography as a result of a childhood accident; he worked at various studios as apprentice photographer. After he worked in Tunisia for a Hungarian photographer for two years from 1935, he opened his own studio in Esztergom. This modern minded portrait studio rapidly became an intellectual, artistic center. Since he was a member of the anti-fascist resistance movement, when the arrow-cross movement took over he fled to Budapest, and a bomb explosion destroyed nearly all his property. In 1945, a member of the MKP (Hungarian Communist Party) he becomes county sub-prefect, and plays a significant role in organizing the reconstruction of the city. From 1951 he is the head of the City Library. He enlarges his collections with new portraits and reviving experiments of his youth, producing photograms and nonfigurative pictures. His culture promoting activities were also significant, in 1947 he established an art colony with Béni Ferenczy in Esztergom. His personality was sharply defined the city’s cultural life. His studio was the intellectual workshop and meeting place of several painters and writers.