Gabor Szilasi (born 3 February 1928) is a Canadian artist known for the humanist vision of his social-documentary photography.

[3] Largely self-taught, Gabor Szilasi started to photograph in Hungary in 1952 when he purchased his first camera, a Zorki.

In 1966, he was introduced to the work of the American documentary tradition as practiced by Paul Strand and Walker Evans while studying at the Thomas More Institute.

[5] The work he made of communities such as Charlevoix, PQ (1970), Montreal`s art community (1960–1980), or was commissioned to make in Italy, Hungary and Poland (1986, 1987, 1990)[6] or of Hungary to which he returned in 1980, 1994 and 1995[1] aimed at the modernist photography ideal of precision, luminosity and permanence which increased the beauty and historic value of his prints.

[9] In 1997, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts organized a travelling retrospective of his work titled Gabor Szilasi: Photographs 1954–1996.