Biography
Ily Szilagyi grew up in East Europe for most of her childhood and moved to Gummersbach, Germany in 1992 with her husband. She lived in California for two years and worked in the architectural design field, where she harnessed her ability to recognize details in the structure of objects, people and the environment. Within the past 4 years, Ily has concentrated her attention in the field of monochrome Fine Art Photography and Infrared Photography in the subjects of scenic, still life, floral and artistic photography. She has worked as a professional photographer through several image libraries in London, New York and Canada. Szilagyi aims to celebrate life with her inspirations from nature, human beings, everyday life and winter scenes. Her work has been reproduced by many Fine Art Publishers and been licensed for various book and CD covers. She has been honored with a third place standing at the px3-Prix de la Photgraphie Paris, first place in photojournalism at the IPA International Photography Awards 2006 along with honorable mentions by IPA 2005 in the categories of advertising, fine art-collage, fine art-portrait, self-portrait and special effects. Her work has been exhibited in the US (Los Angeles, New York), Italy, UK, Sweden, Greece, Poland, Brazil and Germany.
