Hungarian Press Photo exhibition to open soon

The 38th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition displaying some 350 photographs will open on Wednesday at Budapest’s Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre.

The images were selected by an international jury from among 6,079 photos submitted by 267 photographers, the organisers told MTI on Tuesday.

The exhibition is free to visit on the first day, on Wednesday, September 09, 2020, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The exhibition is open to visitors free of charge on Wednesday, and will run until Nov. 15.

The curator says on the official site, 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)

Location:

Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
8 Nagymező Street, 1065 Budapest, Hungary

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

More details HERE.

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Source: Capa Center