38th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition

Open to the public:
2020. 09. 09. – 2020. 11. 15.
Tuesday – Friday 2pm – 7pm
Weekend 11am – 7 pm
Closed on Monday and on public holidays.
Capa Center
Curator: Tamás Szigeti

The exhibition is part of the Hungarian Month of Photography 2020. Please find the online catalog HERE.

The press photo exhibition has been an excellent occasion for a joint recollection of memories for almost four decades. Through the works of the photojournalists, we can recall the most important political events, joyful and sad stories, and the global and local environmental changes of increasing importance from the previous year. We can remember the most prominent sports competitions and achievements, the most memorable cultural events. At the same time, we must also face some saddening and unresolved social issues again, or we can be just pleased to see some improvements emerging in the pictures.

The role of the 38th Press Photo Exhibition from the aspect of recalling and reminding is even greater than before. Namely, over the past months, since the outbreak of the pandemic, our lives have turned upside down, leading to a change in the meaning and significance of things. We have been introduced to new concepts, and they have become parts of our lives. The word “quarantine” is no longer just a strange, difficult expression in the title of a Rejtő novel, but it has become our everyday reality. One thing we have learned about COVID-19 is that it will change our lives for a long time to come.
The grand prize-winning photographs presented at the press photo exhibition in the Capa Center, like the works of András Hajdú D. and Bea Kovács, or Orsolya Ajpek’s photo reportage on the tragedy of the river cruiser Hableány, and even the concert and circus photographs of Balázs Mohai and Ádám Urbán – which could not even be taken in recent times – do not only recall sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, and once in a while uplifting events, but they also remind us that not so long ago we actually had a normal life.

We trust that this normal life is to return soon, and photojournalists will have other subjects to photograph than the pandemic and that they will have the opportunity to work without restrictions, presenting and preserving everything that happens with us and around us in normal times.

Tamás Szigeti
curator

Exhibiting Photographers: Ajpek Orsolya, Bach Máté, Bácsi Róbert László, Balogh Zoltán, Bankó Gábor, Bielik István, Biró Lajos, Boncsér Orsolya, Cséfalvay Á. András, Csillag Zsuzsanna, Csudai Sándor, Czagány Balázs, Czeglédi Zsolt, Dombóvári Tamás, Eöri Szabó Zsolt, Fazekas István, Ficsor Márton, Földházi Árpád, Földi Imre, Götzinger Laura, Hajdú D. András, Illyés Tibor, Kaiser Ákos, Kerekes M. István, Kiss Lóránt, Kölcsey-Gyurkó Sára, Komka Péter, Koszticsák Szilárd, Kovács Bea, Kovács Tamás, Ladjánszki Máté, Lakatos Benedek, ifj. Lőrincz Ferenc, M.Schmidt János, Marjai János, Mártonfai Dénes, Micheller Szilvia, Mohai Balázs, Mohos Márton, Mónus Márton, Móricz-Sabján Simon, Nagy Jácint, Németh Attila, Németh Gabriella, Németh-Mészáros Bálint, Polyák Attila, Rácz Péter, Radisics Milán, Reviczky Zsolt, Röhrig Dániel, Sánta István Csaba, Sóki Tamás, Soós Bertalan, Székelyhidi Zsolt, Teknős Miklós, Tökölyi Csaba, Török János, Urbán Ádám, Valuska Gábor, Vári Tibor, Zsolnai Péter