The best Hungarian Press Photos of 2020 – Photo Gallery
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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.
