Ten years of looking first.

I started assisting in a studio that shot furniture catalogues, which taught me patience, tripods and how much a single reflector can do. Twelve years later I still prefer one light and a long wait to five lights and a schedule.

At a wedding I do not direct the day, I follow it. For portraits I build instead: a corner, a window, a piece of fabric that wraps around the person until the picture stops being about the pose.

The finishing is deliberately restrained. No trend colours, no heavy smoothing — the images should still look like the room felt.

• BasedBudapest, working across Europe
• LanguagesHungarian, English, German
• KitContax 645, two primes, one flash
• Turnaround14 days, always