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Researcher on folk dance and ethnographer and museologist Ferenc Pesovár was born on 23 April 1930 in Herend and died on 27 February 1983 in Veszprém.

He pursued studies in Veszprém at the Piarist Grammar School. He started to learn about folk dances from István Molnár. He was a dancer with the Honvéd Dance Group. He studied ethnography and museology at Pázmány Péter University. He also worked at the Museum of Ethnography, and in 1955, he began working at the Kiskun Museum in Kiskunfélegyháza. From 1957 to 1983, he worked at the King Stephen of Hungary Museum in Székesfehérvár. He did research on the folk dance culture of Transdanubia, Transylvania, Somogy County, and Szatmár County. Like his brother Ernő, he also supported the folk revival movements and took part in the folk dance house movement. 

László Pesty (1964–) is a cameraman, film director, producer, and in 1988–1989 he was a staff member of Black Box video periodical.

Anti-communism was a family heritage for László Pesty, as he stated in one of his interviews: “I was brought up in the spirit of abhorrence of all forms of dictatorial regimes.” He graduated from the Faculty of Law and in media studies at Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, where as a student he was an active member of an amateur film club “Visual Atelier.” Again, as a student, he took part in the distribution of samizdat literature, got in contact with the activists of the Hungarian democratic opposition, invited dissident intellectuals as guests, and screened banned films at sessions of the Academic Student Circle of Philosophy that was led by him.

Pesty started his career as an amateur filmmaker. He looked for sensitive social themes for his movies in the 1980s among such groups on the peripheries as Roma, drug users, handicapped, and unemployed. In the spring of 1987 he joined the staff of Black Box video periodical, founded by Márta Elbert, Judit Ember, István Jávor, András Lányi, and Gábor Vági, a new and independent documentary project that aimed at dealing with those problems that were obstructed by the official media or purposefully distorted.

After the change of regime, the staff at Black Box was torn into two parts: László Pesty left and founded his Black Box Limited specializing in business-based newsreel production; meanwhile, Black Box Foundation was led by Márta Elbert and returned to social problems and civilian activism with its new documentaries. For the right to use the brand name “Black Box,” a legal suit erupted between the two parties.

Marija Petener-Lorenzin was born in Pula in 1949. She graduated with degrees in Italian language with literature and phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and was then employed at the Research Library of Pula (today's University Library of Pula) in 1975. She has been the head of the library of the Faculty of Philosophy in Pula (former Pedagogical Faculty) since 1995. She was the president of the Istrian Library Association, a member of the editorial board of the CIP-bulletin. She is responsible for launching the Istrian Library Association News and co-authored entries in the Istrian Encyclopaedia, and is also the author of several books and papers (Petener-Lorenzin: 2006). She is the author of the bibliography of the journal Istrian Fighter/IBOR.

Tomislav Peternek was born in Vinkovci, Croatia, in 1933. He is regarded as one of Yugoslavia’s and Serbia’s finest masters of photography. He started his career as a photojournalist at the end of the 1950s with ‘Svetlosti’ in Kragujevac, and after moving to Belgrade he worked for the influential newspaper ‘Borba’. Later, he switched from the editorial staff of ‘Mladost’ to ‘Jugoslovenska revija’ and ‘Ekonomska politika’. From 1970, he was photo editor at the weekly news magazine ‘NIN’. 

In his opus that covers a period of sixty years, Tomislav Peternek recorded numerous significant historical events and personalities, everyday situations and ordinary people. He was a leading protagonist of the modernist trend in photography that broke with the aesthetics of socialist realism and turned towards promoting the artistic value of photography. He was at the forefront of the shift from illustration to work of art in news photography. From 1980, he worked in the field of underwater photography. He recorded at the coast of the Adriatic, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea.

In 1985, he founded the photojournalism course at the Yugoslav Institute of Journalism. As the department mentor, he educated over 300 young people, most of whom have become important figures in the field of newspaper photography.

As an accredited correspondent, Tomislav Peternek has worked for numerous international photo agencies such as Reuters, Eastlight, Contrast, UNICEF and Sygma. Since 1955, he received numerous awards in Yugoslavia and abroad. Tomislav Peternek lives in Belgrade.

Born in 1956, in Esztergom, Hungary, Peternák lives and works in Budapest. He studied history and art history, receiving his PhD in 1994 with a dissertation entitled, New Media – Art and Science. He was a member of the Béla Balázs Studio, Budapest (1981–87), the Indigo Group, and worked at the Hungarian National Gallery (1981–83) as well as at the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1983–87).

Peternák has served as Head of the Intermedia Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts since its foundation in 1990, and as director of C³: Center for Culture and Communication since 1997.