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Zsuzsanna Ardó is Hungarian by birth, English by existence, human by inclination, humorous by nature—and a writer and photographer by profession. Her books and articles have been published in various languages, in the UK, US, Hungary, Germany, Russia and Singapore. She has worked as an academic, journalist, editor, and broadcaster; she has translated and edited over 100 feature films, from James Bond to Shakespeare. Her broadcasting experience includes European-wide satellite television series on intercultural communication and management. Her play, The Hat: Arendt Meets Heidegger premiered at Harvard and she wrote and directed a short film Allegro Barbaro, a triple-flashback visual poem to music. Culture Shock! Hungary, her social anthropology-cum-travel book, is in its third, expanded edition worldwide, illustrated by her photos. How to be a European: Go Hungarian, and Love Blues: Hungarian Rhapsodies are cultural satires on Hungarians, published as English and Hungarian parallel texts.
As Artist in Residence at the Digital Art Centre in Spain, she collaborated on digital art, and also on a multimedia interactive feature with soundscape, based on her short story and photographs, published by Arts and Cultures in openDemocracy. Her photograph, “Shifting Sand of History on the Wall” was featured in their Photo of the Week series. In 2005 and 2006 she was invited to be the Photographer in Residence in the André Kertész Museum. Her “André Kertész in My Window” is in the collection of the National Photography Museum in Hungary.
She is a member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), the British Association of Journalists, the founding Chairman of the Hampstead Authors' Society, and the Editor of HASNotes. She has had solo photo exhibitions in Hungary, the UK, the US, Belgium, France, Austria, Luxembourg and India, including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi, Amnesty International and the European Commission UK Representation in London, and the European Commission in Brussels, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
She has curated installations and exhibitions, and has been invited to serve on juries of photography competitions internationally. She is currently on the Imago Jury and the Jury Chair of the André Kertész Photography Competition, and the curator of the exhibition selected from the submissions. Her forthcoming exhibition, Through Each Other's Eyes, opens at the André Kertész Photography Museum. Her recent photography shooting trip in Transylvania, Romania, has been commissioned by Amnesty International.
Zsuzsanna can be reached by e-mail at ardo@pobox.com.
