33rd Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition

In March, Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition again at the Capa Center! The most important and prestigious show of Hungarian photojournalism will be staged between March 20 and May 17. The curator of the 33rd Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition is photographer Tamás Szigeti.

This year, 243 photographers submitted more than 7164 pictures to the 33rd Hungarian Press Photo Contest for prizes totalling almost HUF 4 million.

In accordance with the traditions, 13 category prizes and 6 special prizes have been awarded to talented Hungarian photographers by a jury of Hungarian and international professionals. The jury was presided by Adrian Evans, the director of the Panos Pictures photo agency, who has already taken part three times in the selection of prize-winning images of the World Press Photo Contest. The best Hungarian press photos of the year 2014 have been selected together with Adrian Evans by AFP Photo’s editor-in-chief Eric Baradat, Bloomberg Finance’s photographer Krisztián Bócsi, photography historian and curator Marián Pauer and Zsolt Reviczky, photojournalist at Hungarian daily Népszabadság.

Tamás Szigeti curator about the exhibition:
Photojournalism has been a distinct genre for almost one hundred years within photography – I deliberately avoid to say art – the genre of everydays. It is at least as much distinct, so that when it is displayed on the walls of museums and exhibition halls, it doesn’t have to use the attributes of other genres. That’s why we did not apply the usual picture frames at this year’s exhibition.

The volume of printing is falling day by day, therefore photographs are printed less and less in their original format and we can hardly see paged photo-stories highlighting the emphasis that help us to understand the events. All these, even if they are not compensated for, but hopefully will be evoked by the different arrangement of this year’s press photo exhibition compared to previous years. We have tried to show the atmosphere and the design of newspapers and magazines on the walls of the Capa Center. Of course, not one of them specifically, but a kind of idealized or general, but in any case – unfortunately – less and less existing one. We have made an attempt to show the photographs in an environment similar to their original and natural medium as much as possible.

The long paper scrolls spread on the walls evoke to traditional newspaper printing with a rotary technology. They are hardly wider than one meter, which made the display on the walls a bit difficult and we often felt that we were confined to a limited surface. What happened to us was just like in editorial offices, when it turns out that a newspaper page is not made of rubber, it cannot be stretched at will and so the number and size of the pictures are limited.

At the design and the preparation of the 33rd Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition, our main objective was that this show should present the press photographs and their makers, the photojournalists as much as possible.

The 33rd Hungarian Press Photo Competition Prizewinners 2014:

GRAND PRIZES

Grand Prize of the Association of Hungarian Journalists for the most outstanding achievement
Balázs Béli (Barikád): On the Road in Europe

ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ GRAND PRIZE for the best documentary photograph focusing on people
Attila Balázs (MTI by contract): Homless on Christmas

SPECIAL PRIZES

KÁROLY ESCHER PRIZE FOR THE BEST NEWS PHOTOGRAPH
Simon Móricz-Sabján (Népszabadság)

MÁRTON MUNKÁCSY PRIZE FOR BEST COMPILATION
András D. Hajdú (freelance)

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY A PHOTOJOURNALIST WORKING IN THE REGIONS
Attila Balázs (MTI by contract)

BEST ACHIEVEMENT BY A PHOTOJOURNALIST UNDER 30
Balázs Béli (Barikád)

CATEGORY PRIZES

NEWS EVENT PHOTO
1st prize Simon MÓRICZ-SABJÁN (Népszabadság): The Internet Tax Protest
2nd prize Szilárd KOSZTICSÁK (MTVA): Inauguration
3rd prize Zoltán TUBA (freelance): „Traitor”

PHOTO REPORT
1st prize Sándor CSUDAI (Magyar Hírlap): War on the streets
2nd prize Áron SÜVEG (freelance): Send-off
3rd prize István HUSZTI (Index.hu): Protest against the Internet Tax

PORTRAITS (SINGLE)
1st prize Viktor VERES (Mediaworks Hungary Zrt. / Népszabadság): Idol
2nd prize Máté Gergely OLÁH (freelance): Zoltán Pallag
3rd prize János BŐDEY (Index.hu): The mysterious Berény painting

PORTRAITS (SERIES)
1st prize János BŐDEY (Index.hu): Back to the Yellow-star houses
2nd prize Gábor ERDÉLYI (freelance): Aquatic Team
2nd prize Bálint HIRLING (VS.hu): Farmers at the Nagybani Market

ART (SINGLE)
1st prize Zsolt SZABÓ EÖRI (Nemzeti Színház Nonprofit Zrt.): The Lower Depths
2nd prize Gábor SZABÓ (Origo): Győr – Ravel’s Bolero
3rd prize Ádám URBÁN (freelance): Backstage secrets at the Capital Circus of Budapest

ART (SERIES)
1st prize Norbert HARTYÁNYI (freelance): Mr. Franz Koffer
2nd prize Zoltán TUBA (freelance): From the stone quarry to the Parliament – how the Kossuth statue was created
3rd prize Orsolya AJPEK (Index.hu): New age hippies are dancing at Nógrád County

SPORT (SINGLE)
1st prize Áron SÜVEG (freelance): Wall climbing
2nd prize Thomas CAMPEAN (freelance): Amputee soccer players of Kenya
3rd prize Viktor VERES (Mediaworks Hungary Zrt. / Nemzeti Sport): Hands and Feet

SPORT (SERIES)
1st prize Balázs MOHAI (freelance): Highline in the Ghost-town
2nd prize Tibor ILLYÉS (MTVA / MTI): Women
3rd prize Bálint HIRLING (VS.hu): The final match of professional boxer, Zsolt Erdei (nick named: Madár)

NATURE AND SCIENCE (SINGLE)
1st prize Bence MÁTÉ (Bence Máté Photography, HidePhotography Inc.): The squeeze
2nd prize Miklós GÓDOR (Elektrikó Kft.): Pantry & Logistic…
3rd prize Bálint VINCZE (MVM Paksi Atomerőmű Zrt.): Chin- kick

NATURE AND SCIENCE (SERIES)
1st prize Bence MÁTÉ (Bence Máté Photography, HidePhotography Inc.): Great Egret
2nd prize Norbert HARTYÁNYI (freelance): Pheasant Hunting
3rd prize Csaba FARAGÓ (Rév8 Zrt.): The mayfly breeding

SOCIAL-DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY (SINGLE)
1st prize Ákos STILLER (HVG): Behind the wall
2nd prize János BŐDEY (Index.hu): Outcasts of the system
3rd prize Viktor VERES (Mediaworks Hungary Zrt. / Népszabadság): To eat or not to be

SOCIAL-DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY (SERIES)
1st prize András D. HAJDÚ (freelance): Asylum Seekers – a group of Roma travel to Switzerland
2nd prize Simon MÓRICZ-SABJÁN (Népszabadság): Mud Country
3rd prize Bea KALLOS (MTI): Zora

TABLOID / HUMOUR / POPULAR (SINGLE OR SERIES)
1st prize Miklós TEKNŐS (Népszabadság): Hungarian Backhoe
1st prize János SCHMIDT M. (freelance): Embarrassed
3rd prize Viktor VERES (Mediaworks Hungary Zrt.): Who’s the strongest now?

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