Review of Hungarian Photography

The new English-language publication Review of Hungarian Photography of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and the Fotóművészet Magazin aims to make the works of photographers and photographic professionals working in Hungary known to a wider international audience. 

With the first issue of the Review of Hungarian Photography, the editors' goal is to make the works of contemporary Hungarian photographers and photographic experts known in the international arena of photography, to present what is happening in Hungary today in the field of photography.

“When selecting the articles, interviews, and studies to be included in the first issue of the Review of Hungarian Photography magazine, published under the auspices of the editorial team of the Capa Központ (Gabriella Csizek, Balázs Gáspár, Judit Gellér, and Emese Mucsi) and the head editor of the Fotóművészet {Art of Photography} magazine (Mihály Surányi), our goal was to allow a wider audience to familiarize themselves with the diversity and variety of photography in Hungary. It was an important criterion to present newly discovered facts and stories about artists who already enjoy a certain degree of recognition on the international stage, such as the excerpts from the diary of André Kertész as well as the pursuits of the photography groups ‘Pécsi Műhely’ {Workshop of Pécs} and ‘Munka-kör’ {Work-Group}. Writings discussing the works of contemporary creators, Imre Benkő, Péter Korniss, Arion Gábor Kudász, Gábor Ősz, Dezső Szabó, and Balázs Telek, among others, as well as of aspiring young artists, interviews made with art collectors or the founder of the Fortepan online photography collection, criticisms of exhibitions, and reports on diploma thesis defences can all be found among these curated articles. We trust that the excellent past and exciting present of Hungarian photography are accurately reflected in these studies, and the readers not only acquire valuable knowledge but also enjoy reading this interesting material,” editor Judit Gellér said.

„Our goal with this publication is to help deepen the international community into the background and the current trends and thoughts of the photographers working in Hungary. What type of projects are Hungarian photographers developing nowadays? How the experts analyse their works? Both questions could be relevant to those interested in this field. We are confident that this selection, compiled from the articles deemed to be the most interesting among the ones published in the Fotóművészet (Art of Photography) magazine in 2017 and 2018, is going to be useful for providing the Reader with a nuanced picture of the recent and ongoing developments in Hungarian photography. The selection includes a wide variety of articles. We considered it essential that all these thoughts and findings characterising the photography and art history research and present the diversity of approaches to photography in today’s Hungary are published in English as well,” according to Mihály Surányi, the editor-in-chief of Fotóművészet magazine.