The Hungarian Grey (Bos primigenius Taurus Hungaricus) is a special Hungarikum, Hungary’s native and protected animal species. With its strength, colour and beauty, this animal is known all across the world as a typical Hungarian symbol. Although it is the most typical Hungarian animal, it only became an official Hungarikum four years ago, on April 24.
Sokszínű Vidék reported that these animals play an essential part in shaping the environment of Hortobágy, which is the first officially registered national park in Hungary since the 1970s. The protection and breeding of the Hungarian Grey is the number one priority of the national park.
This native Hungarian animal still exists in a great number in the area of the park and their rule in forming the natural habitats of Hortobágy is significant. As they walk on the lands and eat the grass, these animals create the best environment for birds and other species.
On the day of St. George (April 24) the shepherds lead the animals out on the open fields for the first time after the cold winter season ends. This day — according to the superstition — the real spring arrives. This event has been a public one in Hortobágy attracting many visitors, but this year it has been cancelled because of the coronavirus epidemic.
The two major winners of the Hungarian Press Photo 2020, taking the main prizes home, were announced this year in an exceptional way through a video. The two Hungarian winners, Bea Kovács and András D. Hajdú, are both freelance photographers.
Index reported that the two winners were announced on Thursday (April 16), but only on online platforms this year due to the coronavirus epidemic, which causes obstacles to holding events and award ceremonies. Originally, the awards would have been presented during the Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre.
This year, 267 photographers entered the competition with approximately 2,488 photographs.
András D. Hajdú
András D. Hajdú took photographs in Nagybánya (Baia Mare, Romania) and entitled his work as A fal, amit mi kerítésnek hívunk (would be translated as The wall that we call a fence). The mayor of the town had enough of the local Romani people and built a wall in 2011 to separate them. He justified his decision by saying that Romani people usually bother other residents, do not take care of their hygiene, and the crime rate is extremely high in the region. This is how the Romani ghetto in Nagybánya was born.
The originally three-metre-high wall still stands today, and the actions of the mayor drew an incredible amount of attention for him and the town as well. After getting arrested for his actions, local people re-elected him in 2016 while he was still in prison.
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Photo: András D. Hajdú
Bea Kovács
Bea Kovács calls her project Éber kóma (Coma vigil) which represents the everyday life of a Hungarian married couple who have been taking care of their daughter in Sződliget (Pest County) since 2017. The sixteen-year-old Sára finished tenth grade at grammar school in 2016 and took up a summer job. On her first day at work, a car hit her, and she suffered severe injuries.
Since then, she has been in a coma, and the only feedback she can give to her parents is blinking. Her eyes are wide open, but she cannot communicate or move. She reacts badly to the medical treatments, but her parents do everything every single day to take care of her.
Hungarian documentary photographer Eszter Horváth has fetched 1st prize this year in the World Press Photo competition’s environment, single category, the WPP announced in Amsterdam on Thursday evening.
The picture shows a polar bear and her cub examining equipment marked with a flag scientists had placed on an ice sheet in the Arctic Ocean, WPP said on its website.
Horváth has been photographing the polar regions with a focus on the Artic Ocean since 2015.
In 2019-2020, she photographed the work of German icebreaker Polarster, which is carrying out a scientific expedition in the Central Artic Ocean.
Her photos have been published by the National Geographic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Audubon Magazine and GEO Magazine, among others, the WPP noted.
Spending your days in home quarantine might be difficult sometimes, unless you come up with such a creative idea as this Hungarian couple. As hetediksor.hu reports, Fanni Kovács and Norbert Hosszú vivified the most memorable movie scenes and posters with the help of household items. The fantastic photos speak for themselves, check them out! 😉
“Norbi and I are performers and entertainers. We mostly work with events, so the pandemic has interfered with our plans a lot,” Fanni told the website. “For example, we are the leaders of an improvisational theatre called Improvokál.
“When we were still at university, we loved dressing up whenever we had the chance so thanks to those days, we have had a lot of accessories and costumes.”
This is the most special content one can check for free on Mapire, Arcanum’s mapping service. The CIA took photos of almost every part of Hungary in the 1960s. In 2016, the Interspect Research Group put together those photos and formed a map, which is now available to everybody for free.
The map was put together from several hundreds of panorama photos taken from space, thanks to the work of a dozen people for over a month, Index reported. The world did not know about the existence of such photos until their classification was lifted in 1995. This is, of course, understandable since in the 1960s, Hungary was a part of the Communist block led by the Soviet Union, the main antagonist of the USA and its allies.
The first satellite intelligence collection program in the USA was the Corona, run under the pseudonym Discoverer. This was followed by Argon, Lanyard, Gambit, and the Hexagon from 1959 to 1972, and the results provided the United States with many advantages in the Cold War. Interestingly, Corona satellites were the first ones in the world gathering information from space, and one of them was
the first human-made object that was able to come back from space safely.
This was important because the CIA somehow had to get back the negatives taken from the satellites. Therefore, they were able to find out where the rocket silos, the secret industrial plants, and other important military objects were located.
So, the engineers of General Electric designed a capsule that could get loose from the satellite and was able to bear the high temperatures caused by the atmospheric friction while returning to Earth. Finally, specially designed planes, the C-119 and C-130 of
the American Air Force, intercepted the capsules.
The Corona program was very successful because the 145 satellites launched from the Vandenberg military base could send back more than 800 thousand photos taken mostly from the Soviet Union, China, and members of the Communist block. The quality of the photos was very good from 1967. If the atmospherical circumstances were ideal, the resolution was only 2 metres, and this is how, for example, the photos of Hungary were taken at the end of the 1960s.
The classification of the program was lifted by President Bill Clinton in 1995, and the original photos can be seen on the website of USGS’s EarthExplorer. It was hard to put together the photos to form a map, but according to the experts, the product is
not only interesting for historians, but it can also be used for geographical, geological, climate change-related, and biodiversity research.
The outbreak of the coronavirus forced Italy to go under complete lockdown, and major cities which are usually flooded by tourists, such as Rome, Venice, Padova, and Florence, became ghost towns. The situation is the same in Budapest where the streets, squares, and all the major attractions are empty.
Femina reported that Hungarian photographer Milán Radisics portrayed empty Italy in the days of the epidemic. Only a few people walk outside to get some fresh air; birds, photographers, priests, and unfortunately many ambulance cars break the boredom of the Italian streets.
As travelling to foreign countries is not possible these days, the Hungarian photographer used web cameras to travel to Italy, and instead of pressing his camera’s button, he pressed print screen.
Radisics reported that he had to wait for hours to see a person on the screen while he was sitting in front of his device and waited for the perfect moment. He added that it was heartbreaking to see that all the major Italian sites, like the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Forum, and many more, are abandoned.
The situation is the same in Budapest. Only those appear on the streets who need to go to work or to buy some groceries. Some Hungarian photographers did not want to miss the opportunity to photograph an empty Budapest. As a result, stunning but also sad pictures were uploaded on social media platforms.
“At a time of great global uncertainty, it is hard to see beyond the doom and gloom. Fortunately, our fifth annual Under 30 Europe list delivers a much-needed dose of optimism. Here we highlight the young visionary leaders brashly reinventing business and society from a Finnish duo turning used coffee beans into sneakers to a Dutch team designing solar-powered cars.”
Forbesdid not miss the opportunity to publish its annual article about 300 youngs visionaries of Europe from thirty-two European countries with incredible talent, vision, and endurance; all of them achieved something great in different fields.
The 26-year-old Flóra Borsi is an autodidact digital photography artist whose works have met acclaim from New-Zealand to the United States of America.
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Flora is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal emotions, from lust and desire to despair and loss.
The other Hungarian featured on the list got incredible media reputation when he beat the record of the Olympic champion American swimmer Michael Phelps. Kristóf Milák holds the world-record of 200 meters butterfly since then and returned with a gold and silver medal from his last championship.
The biggest photography event in Hungary, BUDAPEST PHOTO FESTIVAL opens its’ fourth year with an unique exhibition on the border of Fine Art and Photography, imagination and reality. As every year, the Festival guides the audience to a new sequence of visuality with its’ opening exhibition on 28th of February 2020. at MŰCSARNOK.
Paolo VENTURA: A Venetian Story – Automaton
The Automaton is a peculiar and depressing fairytale set in Venice during the WWII, when the German army stormed Italy to prevent the defection of Italians. It is based on a story told to Paolo Ventura as a child by his father, a storybook writer by profession. The protagonist is an elderly Jewish watchmaker living in the Venice ghetto in 1943, one of the darkest periods of Nazi occupation and the rule of the fascist regime in Italy. The story unfolds in this desolate and fearful part of the city.
The old man decides to build an automaton (a robot boy), to keep him company while he awaits the arrival of the fascist police. It is the story of an old Jewish man who builds an automaton to keep himself company in these dark times.
Ventura’s Venice is familiar for us all, yet still somehow very distant.
Our impression is that it might have only existed in a fantasy, even though every aspect of it is utterly realistic. The same goes for history itself, our common past. We would like to believe that these strange, gloomy and scary memories can only exist in nightmares. That maybe the victims of past times were not real humans, but tiny figurines in a dreamlike puppet-show. Ventura says about the project: “All the images were taken in an imaginary Venice, built by myself on a small scale. The only real fact of the story is the raid of the ghetto in Venice by the German army and Italian police in early December of 1943.”
Artists long fantasized about automated machines. Think of the lady created by the watchmaker protagonist of the popular ballet, Coppelia, or the singing robot of the well-known Offenbach opera, we can also associate to Pinocchio, who was brought to life. Although people creating robots were admired, they were also mocked and feared. The greater community excluded them. Humanoid robots always reminded us that humanity may not be able to control everything it has created.
Forcing people to live in confined places like ghettos – just because of their religious views – first happened 500 years ago in 1516.
The founder of Campo di Ghetto Nuovo was Doge Loredan, the destroyer of its walls was Europe’s symbolic hero, Napoleon.
The word ghetto itself comes from Venice too, where the story of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice takes place. Throughout centuries, many Jewish culture met and influenced each other on the busy and narrow streets and in the five synagogues.
Under the Nazi regime they deported hundreds of the remaining Jews from this area, and only eight survived the concentration camps of Trieste and Auschwitz.
Venue: MŰCSARNOK / Kunsthalle – 1146 Budapest, Dózsa György út 37. Date: 2020.02.29. – 06.07. Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00–18:00, Thursday 12:00–20:00 Saturday, Sunday 10.00-18.00
Budapest Photo Festival
The Budapest Photo Festival is an annual city-wide exhibition series what represents the contemporary and classical values of the photography by the presence of the Hungarian and international art scene. The aim of the Festival is to create Budapest to be the „City of Photography”.
The festival has two highlighted exhibitions as a frame: the opening international show and a Hungarian contemporary overview. The emphasis, – next to the two highlighted exhibitions – , is on the presentation of the national and international contemporary scene, by the program of the biggest galleries, museums and the International Cultural Institutes of the Hungarian Capital. The Festival involves many public and professional programs also: lectures, workshops, photomarathon, museum educational events, portfolio review.
This week, the winning photographers were announced at the top two photography award ceremonies: World Press Photo and the POYI – Pictures of the Year International. This time, a Hungarian photographer was also awarded.
Femina reported that the award ceremony for POYI was held in the USA where Hungarian photographer Milán Radisics, who is a freelance photographer from Budapest, landed among the best with forty of his pictures.
Being among the best photographers is equal to an Oscar nomination, as it is the world’s best photographers and a professional jury that see the photographs.
Radisics got into the category of Environmental Visions, which represents how mankind treats nature these days and all the positive and negative results.
The Hungarian photographer entered the competition with his Water.Shapes.Earth project, as well as some photographs under the name Human Nature – Our Fingerprints on the Earth.
Here are some pictures of some of the most stunning lakes in Hungary that you may want to swim in, go on a boat ride on, or simply enjoy the view from the shore.
Lake Tisza
Photo: Pixabay
Photo By Németh Dániel (directly from author) GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
The Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, Kossuth Square, has been closed since 2017, as the building is moving to City Park inside the brand-new building which is part of the Liget Budapest project. Until the move, experts of the museum keep on collecting the exhibits and also digitalising beautiful pictures about Hungarian folk culture.
Index reported that digitalising is every Hungarian museum’s essential task as many of them hide secret and valuable cultural treasures many do not know about. Most of these collections are not available online, and only scientists know about their existence. Many examples prove that it would be crucial to make these treasures accessible for everyone interested in the country.
The photo archive of the Museum of Ethnography is the essential guide for Hungarian folk culture and traditions. The good news is that scientists not only managed to save some pictures but also made them available on the Internet.
Photo: www.facebook.com/neprajzimuzeum
Workers of the Tripont Cultural Heritage Solution restored approximately 35,000 pictures out of 350,000. These copies taken around the 1950s are the most dangerous ones as their material is highly flammable and bacteria can easily destroy them. This process can be slowed down with several methods but cannot be stopped.
The project continued with restoring 75,000 pictures taken between 1890 and 1940. Most of these pictures were taken about the Hungarian villages of the Carpathian Basin in 1896 during the era of the Millenium. These pictures and the ones mentioned above will be exhibited in the new building.
The museum also purchased another 25,000 photographs from photography studios about Hungarian folk culture back in the 19th and 20th centuries. Moreover, another 6,000 drawings from the 1880s and 1890s are also being restored by scientists.
Nevertheless, the museum reported that it would continue to stick to an old tradition, which means that these photographs will not be available for downloading, and the websites, archives, and museums of Hungarian villages and towns will not receive any of the restored pictures.
The award winners of the 38th Hungarian Press Photo Competition were announced on Monday at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center. 267 photographers competed with 2488 entries, and 6079 photos altogether.
International judges decided this year too, their president was Tamás Szlukovényi, former curator of the Toronto/London based Archive of Modern Conflict, and had worked for Reuters for 25 years as a photo reporter, editor and photo editor in chief, reported Index.
Other judges were Ron Haviv, Emmy-nominated photo reporter and founding member of the New York based VII Photo Agency, João Silva, war photo reporter of The New York Times, Daniela Mrazkova Czech writer and returning judge of the World Press Photo and Pictures of The Year competitions, and Ákos Stiller photo reporter, as well as reporters from National Geographic, CNN, Der Spiegel, Stern and others.
News, event photo category:
1st place: Tamás Dombóvári (freelancer): Részvét (Condolences)
Photo: MTI/Dombóvári Tamás
2nd place: Zoltán Balogh (MTI/MTVA): Vučjak a kiürítés után (Vučjak After Being Evacuated)
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
3rd place: Zoltán Balogh (MTI/MTVA): Veszélyben a búvár (Diver in Danger)
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo report category:
1st place: Orsolya Ajpek (Index.hu): A Hableány tragédiája (Tragedy of the Hableány)
Photo: MTI/Ajpek Orsolya
2nd place: Szilárd Koszticsák (MTI/MTVA): Határvadászok szilveszterkor (Boarder Hunters on New Years Eve)
1st place: Imre Földi (Nemzeti Sport): Meglepetés (Surprise)
Photo: MTI/Földi Imre
2nd place: Tibor Illyés (MTI/MTVA): Találat (Hit)
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
3rd place: Zsolt Czeglédi (MTI/MTVA): Csodálkozó szem (Amazed Eye)
Photo: MTI/Czeglédi Zsolt
Sport (series) category:
1st place: János Török (Délmagyarország): Villanyfényben (In the Light of a Lamp)
2nd place: János M. Schmidt: Alanya, Paratriatlon Világkupa (Alanya, Parathion World Cup)
3rd place: Tibor Illyés (MTI/MTVA): Úszás egy kicsit “máskép” (Swimming A Little “Differently”)
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Photo: MTI/Illyés Tibor
Nature and science (single) category:
1st place: János Török (Délmagyarország): A hattyú halála (Death of the Swan)
2nd place: István Kerekes M. (freelancer): Együttélés (Living Together)
3rd place: Péter Rácz (freelancer): Űrlény négykerekű biciklivel (Alien on a Four-wheel Bicycle)
Nature and science (series) category:
1st place: András Hajdú D. (freelancer): A kongói dzsungel magyar hőse (The Hungarian Hero of the Congo Jungle)
Photo: MTI/Hajdú D. András
2nd place: Milán Radisics (Radex Media Group Kft.): A szennyezés művészete – A növekedés rejtett költségei (The Art of Pollution – The Hidden Costs of Growth)
3rd place: István Kerekes M. (freelancer): A halál színei (The Colors of Death)
Social portrayal, documentary photography (single) category:
1st place: István Kerekes M.: Otthon (Home)
2nd place: Márton Mónus (MTI/MTVA): Karácsony (Christmas)
3rd place: Simon Móricz-Sabján (Világgazdag): Csanytelek
Photo: MTI/Móricz-Sabján Simon
Social portrayal, documentary photography (series) category:
1st place: András Hajdú D. (freelancer): A fal, amit mi kerítésnek hívunk (The Wall We Call Fence)
2nd place: János Török (Délmagyarország): Ingyen van a víz, de el kell menni érte (Water Is Free, But You Have To Go Get It)
3rd place: Zoltán Balogh (MTI/MTVA): Rehab
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Photo: MTI/Balogh Zoltán
Special awards:
Munkácsy Márton Prize for the best collection: János Török (Délmagyarország)
Zoltán Szalay Prize for best performance by a photo reporter under 30: Márton Mónus (MTI/MTVA)
Best-performing photo reporter in the Counties: János Török (Délmagyarország)
Escher Károly Prize for best news picture in Hungary: Tamás Dombóvári (freelancer) (1st place in the News category)
Sustainability: Máté Ladjánszki’s series: Városi természet (Urban Nature)
Honorary mentions:
Márton Mohos (24.hu) Irány Brüsszel (Heading to Brussels)
Péter Komka (MTI/MTVA): Hospice
András Cséfalvay Á. (Parameter.sk): Vivien
Orcsolya Boncsér (freelancer): “Akarsz-e játszani?” (“Do you want to play?”)
Tibor Illyés (MTI/MTVA): Felkészülni, készen, rajt… (Ready, Set, Go…)
István Kerekes M. (freelancer): (Seregélyek) Starlings
András Hajdú D. (freelancer): Előre a vadnyugatnak (Forward to the Wild West)
The awards will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center on April 16. The winners of the MÚOSZ Grand Prize and the André Kertész Grand Prize will also be announced then.
The beautiful Hollywood actress is starring in Lord Of The Rings TV series. The ‘th’ ending of Ema’s surname can be considered as a giveaway, revealing that she has Hungarian blood running through her veins.
Mariska Hargitay
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The world-famous Hollywood actress – starring in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – is among the highest-paid actresses. Few may know that Mariska Hargitay is half of the Hungarian origin – her father, Miklós Hargitay was born in Budapest. Later on, he emigrated to the USA to build his career as a bodybuilder. In 1955, he won the Mr Universe title.
Elsa Pataky
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Her father was Spanish. Her mother was Romanian; however, the actress took her name in honour of her Hungarian grandmother.
Rachel Weisz
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Rachel Weisz, the world-famous Hollywood actress, is semi-Hungarian: her father György Weisz was a Hungarian engineer and inventor. In 1938, the family emigrated and later settled down in Great Britain where Rachel was born in 1970.
Drew Barrymore
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Few may know that one of Charlie’s Angels also has a Hungarian ancestor – Drew Berrymore’s mother, Ildikó Makó is Hungarian.
Goldie Hawn & Kate Hudson
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Both mother and daughter have Hungarian blood running through their veins – Hawn’s mother, Laura Steinhoff was born in Hungary and emigrated to the USA before the Second World War. Goldie Hawn was born in Washington in 1945.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The world-famous actress of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has two Hungarian ancestors – her great-great-grandfather was born in the Hungarian settlement Sátoraljaújhely, while her great-great-grandfather in Tiszabercel.
Jessica Szohr
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Besides African and Indian ancestors, the beautiful Hollywood celebrity has Hungarian Hungarian ascending line as well – Jessica’s father is Hungarian.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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Her father, the legendary Tony Curtis was semi-Hungarian; as a child, Tony communicated only in Hungarian, as her father (grandfather of Jamie Lee Curtis) was Hungarian.
Mayim Bialik
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According to the Hungarian news portal Origo, the world-famous actress known from The Big Bang Theory, also has a Hungarian ascending line – one of her grandparents was Hungarian, who later emigrated to the USA. Mayim Bialik was born in San Diego.
Julianna Margulies
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The American actress (starring in The Good Wife) and producer also has European ascending lines – her grandparents emigrated to the USA from Hungary, Austria, Romania and Italy.
Fact: people are obsessed with Instagram when they head off on their holidays – always trying to outdo each other with their snaps. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em, right?
With that in mind, global travel site Big 7 Travel has put together its annual list of the ‘World’s Most Instagrammable Places 2020’.
The final results are ranked in order of their visual allure and popularity on social media – Big 7 Travel also includes the seven best spots to visit in each destination for a guaranteed amazing Instagram photo.
How did Big 7 Travel choose the winners? Via a comprehensive scoring system that analysed the amount of hashtags per destination, survey results of Big 7 Media’s 1.5 million audience, and votes cast by a panel of travel experts.
These are the places where you’ll find sweeping stretches of coastline, historical monuments, kitsch cocktail bars and more street art than you can possibly imagine.
MOST INSTAGRAMMABLE DESTINATIONS 2020:
Sydney, Australia
Hong Kong
Dubai, UAE
New York City, USA
Singapore
Tokyo, Japan
Lisbon, Portugal
Bali, Indonesia
London, England
Jaipur, India
46th. The capital city of Hungary, Budapest is a photogenic, fairytale city in Eastern Europe.
The city itself is separated by the 19th-century Chain Bridge that connects the hilly Buda district with flat Pest – hence the name Budapest!
Cities who made it into the Top 20 include Dubrovnik, Croatia, with Paris, France also receiving high scores, thanks to its pastel-coloured streets, lively markets and famous photo spots. Other Instagrammable places in the Top 50 to add to your ‘must-visit’ include Istanbul in Turkey and Cusco, Peru.
This year’s winning destination is Sydney, Australia (the second year that Australia has been named the most Instagrammable place in the world by Big 7 Travel.)
A combination of the city’s vibrant scenery and beauty alongside a ‘viral’ buzz surrounding Australia on how best to support its tourism industry means we predict travellers will go out of their way to showcase Sydney on their social media in 2020.
Instagram shows no sign of slowing down as a key driver in travel trends:
67% of people surveyed by Big 7 Media said they have visited a new destination after seeing it on Instagram, while 61% of people have booked a specific hotel after seeing it on their Instagram feed.
While printed guidebooks still have their uses, more and more tourists are using only Instagram for travel recommendations – 33% of people surveyed say they research their upcoming holiday destination via their Instagram feed.
With 77% of people surveyed taking 2-5 holidays a year (including weekend breaks), the most popular travel content on social media are Bucket List experiences and luxury hotels.
They say that “I would rather be nude than wear fur.” Kristóf Steiner, Eszter Földes, Viktória Vámosi, Adél Jordán, and Laura Döbrösi are all among the supporters of the campaign.
The slogan of the Hungarian Anti-Fur League (Magyar Szőrmeellenes Liga, Facebook page HERE) is supported by 10 well-known Hungarian celebrities who are posing nude to stand up against the fur industry.
Among them, there is a vegan bikini model,
a vegan bodybuilder, a human rights and eco-activist, and an ice hockey player. The initiative was inspired by PETA’s “I’d rather go naked…” campaign, in which P!nk and Khloe Kardashian were also taking part, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu reported.
The Hungarian Anti-Fur League writes that being naked is a taboo in our country, but it is also a taboo what price animals have to pay for our fur clothes, and we point to the real victims in vain. By undermining mind barriers around nudity, they would like to redirect the focus to the secrets that are around the products of the fur industry. They say that
not talking about those secrets
is just as improper as condemning naked bodies.
The organisation was created in 2017, and they emphasise that breeding just for fur causes extreme pain for the animals, and there is a significant inconsistency between the laws protecting the animals and the fact that they are
bred only for their fur.
Furthermore, authorities cannot constantly supervise the breeders. Moreover, in the neighbouring countries, the state is banning fur-breeding farms one after the other, and the popularity of the material is also decreasing: more and more fashion companies decide not to work with fur anymore.
Not enough? HERE we wrote that 1/3 of Hungarians had already taken naked selfies. HERE you can read that bathing naked men were banned in Rudas Spa because of public sex.
Norbert Kaszás won with a dragonfly taking a bath in the rain.
He won the first prize in the 2019 Nature Photographer of the Year competition in which the best photographers took part from all over the world. The first place in the general category also went to a Hungarian, Csaba Daróczi, who won with his photo entitled Jump, Index reported.
Kaszás won the ‘Other animals’ category, which means all kinds of animals except mammals.
Mr Kaszás said on his Facebook page that his victory is a huge surprise for him because, in his category, photographers from 73 countries sent more than 13 thousand photos, of which only 50 were finally exhibited. He added that for now, this is the biggest success in his career.
We already reported about another huge Hungarian success in the field of nature photography. Regő Füssi-Nagy won the Asferico International Nature Photography Competition just a few months ago.
He has been taking nature photos only for a couple of years, but experts say that he is very talented. Thus, not surprisingly, he has already won many awards.
Another beautiful photo of the basilica of Esztergom from Norbert Kaszás. Source: https://m.facebook.com/Kasz%C3%A1s-Norbert-Photography-1435237900025261/
If you want to read about the 2018 nature photographer of the year who was also Hungarian, click HERE.
Another beautiful shot from Norbert Kasza. Source: https://m.facebook.com/Kasz%C3%A1s-Norbert-Photography-1435237900025261/
A photo exhibition celebrating the 100th birth anniversary of Bauhaus has opened in the Academy of Hungary in Rome, Italy.
Entitled Bauhaus Contemporary, the exhibition draws a unique parallel between the art movement and Hungarian artists, the organisers told MTI.
“It shows the influence of Bauhaus on present-day art and how it is present today,” they said in a statement.
Hallmark names of the Bauhaus movement in Hungary include painter, photographer and teacher László Moholy-Nagy and architect and furniture designer Marcell Breuer.
