István Virágvölgyi is a photo editor and curator and the secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary. He studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing and photography and earned a master’s degree in library and information science at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He worked at the leading Hungarian news outlet Origo from 2007 as the photography editor. In 2011 he joined the MTI Hungarian News Agency as head of the photo desk. Since 2014 he has been deputy director and curator at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center. He also lectures on documentary photography at the Budapest Metropolitan University.