The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center cordially invites you to this year’s public presentations and awards ceremony for the Capa Grand Prize Hungary.

PUBLIC PRESENTATION
Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2026, 3.00 pm
Venue: Capa Center, Event Hall
The presentation will be held in English, without interpretation.

The shortlisted candidates for the 2026 Capa Grand Prize Hungary, selected this May, will each give a 15-minute presentation on their work in the presence of the jury members. The nominees for this prestigious award are the Depth of Field Narrative Group – DNG (Zsolt Balázs and Gábor Sióréti), Noémi Napsugár Melegh, Zsófia Pályi, Zsófia Sivák, and Viktor Váradi.  Each Grand Prize nominee will receive a cash prize of 500,000 forints.

Following the presentations, the jury will select this year’s Grand Prize winner in a closed-door deliberation.

Jury Members:
• David Campany, creative director, International Centre of Photography (USA)
• Wiktoria Michałkiewicz, arts and culture manager, founder of the REZO agency (Poland–Portugal)
• Gyula Sopronyi, photographer
• Éva Szombat, photographer
• Manfred Wiplinger, director, Galerie Krinzinger (Austria)


CAPA GRAND PRIZE AWARDS CEREMONY
Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2026, 6.00 pm
Venue: Capa Center, Event Hall

In the presence of the jury, Dr Zsolt Sári, State Secretary for Public Collections and Heritage Protection, Ministry for Community Relations and Culture, will present the Capa Grand Prize Hungary. The winner of the Grand Prize will receive a cash prize of 2.5 million forints from the founding Capa Center. In addition, the Capa Center will provide 2,000 euros to support an exhibition of the Grand Prize-winning work at the Krinzinger Schottenfeld Gallery in Vienna, which – thanks to a generous offer from the gallery – will also include a one-month residency in Vienna.

Admission to the events is free.