{"id":8023,"date":"2026-03-03T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capacenter.hu\/kiallitasok\/tombor-zoltan-lost-and-found\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T10:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:50:04","slug":"zoltan-tombor-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"kiallitasok","link":"https:\/\/capacenter.hu\/en\/exhibitions\/zoltan-tombor-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Zolt\u00e1n Tombor: Lost & Found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zolt\u00e1n Tombor is a photographer living and working in Budapest. He began his international career in Milan in 2003 and later spent several years in New York, where he established himself as a fashion photographer, collaborating with leading magazines and brands. His work has been featured in a wide range of Hungarian and international publications, campaigns, and exhibitions. Tombor is the husband of Nelli Tombor and the father of Lujza Tombor. He has been a recovering addict for seven years.

His solo exhibition LOST & FOUND<\/em> acts as a self-confession \u2014 a personal narrative that unfolds through both his commercial and autonomous photographic works, as well as his family archive. It reflects on the years of substance use, exploring the symbolic dimensions of cocaine and alcohol addiction, the themes of secrecy and shame, the various forms of temptation, the moments of intensity, the struggles of those around him, and the gradual process of recovery. Although photography has always been a means of self-understanding and reflection for him, this is the first time such an introspective process has taken center stage and become a defining theme of his artistic practice. His commissioned work has understandably \u2014 and typically for the field \u2014 left little room for personal narratives. However, in this context, even some of his fashion photographs acquire new meaning, revealing the potential intersections between fashion, show business, celebrity culture, and substance use.

The material presented in the exhibition is neither a documentary series nor a collection of classic fashion photography. Instead, it forms a distinctive visual tapestry \u2014 a memoir in images interwoven with text, through which Zolt\u00e1n Tombor reflects on his life experiences. Within it, his commissioned and autonomous works intertwine with nearly fifty years of family photographs and a new series of symbolic images created specifically for this exhibition. In this mind map, the narrative of a life is reorganized according to the associative and internal logic of memory, as the artist looks back from the period of recovery \u2014 connecting moments of happiness and sorrow, professional and personal encounters, spanning from childhood to the present day.

The work\u2019s fabric is interwoven with fragments of text \u2014 selected statements and case studies from self-help books on addiction, alongside Tombor\u2019s own written confessions. Guiding him through the process of recovery were the writings of physician Dr. G\u00e1bor M\u00e1t\u00e9, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts<\/em>, and psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence<\/em>. Whether shared in a book, within a support group, or during an everyday conversation, personal confessions can bring relief to both the speaker and the listener \u2014 for those struggling with addiction, those in recovery, their families, and others still seeking their way. Ultimately, this story has been an act of relief for one person \u2014 and it might offer that same sense of release to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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