If a Hungarian reads in the invitation Paola Agosti beside the name of Nagy Zoltán, he may justifiably ask: why did the curator choose to place him beside N.Z.?
If an Italian who knows about the work of P.A. reads the same thing, he can ask, with equal justification, why did N.Z. become P.A.’s companion?
To all, the curator answers: he didn’t do the matchmaking, life did. They’ve been a pair for a good many years, and their photographs also display how each looks at the world around them.
Listen and look at how these two very diverse individuals sing on two scales, while they sing the same song, the clear ringing song of humanistic, human-centered, unmanipulated, classic black-and- white photography.

Zoltán Nagy
He was born in Budapest in 1943 and left Hungary in 1966. He has been living in Italy since 1974 and works as a freelance photographer. His pictures are published mostly in the German press, he works for the Grüner und Jahr and Springer Publication House, the Tagesanzeiger in Zurich, the Politiken in Coppenhagen, Dagens Nyheter in Stockholm.
In 1995 the Hungarian Museum of Photography presented his exhibition entitled Message from South.
Paola Agosti and Zoltán Nagy have known each other for twenty years and they have been living together for 3 years in Rome. They organized a week-long photo workshop entitled Walks in Rome at the End of the Millennium.

Paola Agosti
She was born in Turin in 1947. She lives and works as a freelance photographer in Rome. She has travelled throughout Europe, Africa, South-America and in the United States. Her pictures were published in the most significant Italian and foreign papers, journals. She has had several solo and group exhibitions and she has also arranged exhibitions. The Author's Face, Book exhibition, Turin, 1988; Italy Outside Italy, The 2nd national conference on emigration, Rome, 1988; She published several books as well: Let’ s Take Life Back, Savelli, Rome,1976; Pictures from the World of Vanquised, Mazzotta Editore, Milan, 1978; Woman and Machine, Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1983; From Piemont To Rio de Plata, Piemont Land, Torin, 1988; It Seems to Be a Century (with Giovanna Borgese), Einaudi, Torin, 1992; Once Upon a Time Lived a Little Child, Baldini & Castoldi, Milan, 1996, Nice Dog, La Tartaruga edizioni, Milan, 1997.
Her pictures can be found in several collections in Italy and abroad.