Futures Talents 2021
The Capa Center, as the partner of the FUTURES platform, called for entries for its open competition FUTURES Talents 2021, under which five creators were selected to participate in the FUTURES – European Photography Platform this year.
The FUTURES Talents of Capa Center in 2021
Kincső Bede
Kincső Bede (1995) is a Romanian visual artist with Hungarian roots, who grew up in a small city in Transylvania, Romania. She is fascinated by the communist past of her homeland, the power of the leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, the control exercised by the security agency Securitate, and how this history is passed down across the generations. Currently, Kincső lives and works in Budapest, Hungary and she studies at the Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design. She is part of the Studio of Young Photographers. In 2020 she won the photography scholarship of the Association of Hungarian Photographers. In the same year, she was among the winners of Carte Blanche Students, a scholarship founded by Paris Photo, the world’s greatest photo art fair. The works of the four winners were exhibited at the Parisian Gare du Nord. Her diploma series, entitled Three Colours I Know in This World was chosen for the 10 New Talent 2020 program by the curators of BredaPhoto Festival and was exhibited in The Netherlands. Her work is often applauded by the foreign press. Also, her photos are part of the Blurring the Lines 2020 issue. From 2020 she is represented by TOBE Gallery, Budapest.
Enikő Hodosy
Enikő Hodosy’s (1987) interest lies on connections between body, soul, and spirit. She focuses on social and psychological issues, their brutality, and beauty, which she represents through an ethereal and intimate atmosphere. She obtained a master’s degree in Photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2016. In 2013, she spent a semester in Brussels with Erasmus, later, she completed her mandatory internship in Paris with Erasmus+. In 2013 she was selected to the top 100 of Google Photography Prize. In 2014 she won a grant to organize her first solo exhibition titled Bleu, which took place at Gallery Várfok Project Room, Budapest. In 2015 her series Animalia Variabilis was shortlisted at the 5th World Biennal of Student Photography, Novi Sad. In recent years, her photos gained exposure in various places including the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, the Mai Manó House, the Vienna Photobook Festival, the Berlin Photobook Festival, the Mark Grosset Prize, Vendôme, the Kiscell Museum, and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and der Grief magazine. She is a member since 2012, and a board member since 2020, of the Studio of Young Photographers. She lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
Márton Mónus
Márton Mónus (1990) is a freelance photojournalist in Budapest who photographs mainly for news agencies, including Reuters, DPA and MTI. In addition to his every day, highly varied photojournalism work, he seeks topics with a wider range in his personal projects. He often follows the subjects of his photo essays for many years. His series are mostly people-focused, trying to explore the problems of individuals or social groups with the tool of photography. His work has been rewarded with honored awards: shortlisted in the See.Me The Exposure Award competition in landscape category, and his image was exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. He has won several awards at the Hungarian Press Photo Competition, including the André Kertész Grand Prize, the Károly Escher Prize, and the Zoltán Szalay Prize for three consecutive years for the best-performing photojournalist under 30. He has been a participant in international masterclasses such as the Nikon-NOOR Academy Masterclass and is now a third-time scholarship holder to VII Academy seminars. His latest photo essay on air pollution in Northeast Hungary was chosen by the Reuters news agency as one of the most important Wider Image story.
Zsófia Sivák
Zsófia Sivák was born in Eger, Hungary in 1993. She completed her photography studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2019. She is primarily involved in such documentary photography and projects which allow her to have long-term cooperation with a given community and document their daily lives objectively without losing the possibility of subjective associations. Her series are mostly concerned with rural life due to her personal involvement. After growing up in a small village in the Eastern part of Hungary before moving to Budapest for her studies, the young photographer began to observe more objectively and systematically document the things around her.
András Zoltai
András Zoltai (1990) is a freelance documentary photographer currently based in Budapest, Hungary. He graduated with a BSc in Marketing at Budapest Business University. After he studied Photojournalism at the Academy of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ). His curiosity, travels, and openness laid the foundation for his world of photography. He seeks to get personally involved in his subjects and tries to be inspired by classic documetarism reshaping into his own language. He focuses on socially sensitive topics, and strongly believes that visual stories can change the world. András works for various commercial and editorial assignments. 2019 is a milestone in his career since he won first place in the Hungarian Press Photo Competition with his series photographed in Armenia and was selected for the NIKON-NOOR masterclass in Sofia. As a result, he began to delve even more deeply into documentarism, which underpins the atmosphere of his film-photographed stories. He has also won prestigious state and international scholarships for his ongoing work on climate change in India, in which he examines the environmental problems of the Brahmaputra River. He is currently working on the continuation of this story.
FUTURES Open Call – Hungarian Talents 2021
