He started his career as a painter, later he became a graphic and puppet artist, then while being occupied with ontology he started to take photos.
In the meantime he was lecturing at College of Fine Art, having a great attraction to his students.
This volume mentions all the above listed stages of Koffán’s artistic-life, but mainly concentrates on Koffán standing behind his camera, as on behalf of his family, Hungarian Museum of Photography possesses the almost complete photography legacy, containing myriads of items.
First step of his photographer career was in 1950. While examining the life of woodlarks, he started to take pictures of them. At that time these artistically composed and ontologically accurate monochrome photos were milestones of nature-photography.
He was over fifty when he was called upon to take portraits of artists. His life-work was enriched the most by taking photos of well-known fine artists and other famous figures of arts.
These photos cannot be considered as classical portraits, as they do not simply eternalize faces, but tempers, auras, atmospheres and personalities. They are mainly character pictures, photo-opinions of a colleague, a friend, a tutor through the eyes of the other.