Frida Kahlo's Photographic Collection, on display in the Hungarian capital for the first time, offers a glimpse into the hidden moments of the Mexican artist's life with a new perspective on the passionate and tormented life of one of the most emblematic figures of Latin American art. After her death, Frida's personal collection was moved […]
The Chinese Cultural Center in the Hungarian capital opened its doors to the public on Thursday with a photo exhibition entitled ‘In the Mirror of the Silk Road - China through the Eyes of Hungarian Photographers’. The director of the center, Jin Hao said that after several years of careful preparation, the center is open […]
The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the landing in Normandy with guided tours and screenings of never-before-seen photographs on June 5 and 6. Hungarian-born American photojournalist Robert Capa's life's work is marked by his capture of the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944. The photographer arrived on […]
An exhibition of the works of Hungarian-born photographers who emigrated to the United States and became famous there, including André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Capa and Martin Munkácsi, will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts from this Saturday. The exhibition, which opens as part of Bartók Spring, features 170 photographs in collaboration […]
Almost 94 images from around the world will be on display at the World Press Photo exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum (MNM) from Friday, featuring the best and most important photojournalistic and documentary photographs of the past year, and visiting Hungary as well as 30 other prominent locations. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Désirée […]
Featuring nearly a hundred milestone works by thirty young artists, Like You and Me is an exhibition that highlights themes and technical experiments from contemporary Hungarian photography, along with characteristics of the genre and various cases when the boundaries of the medium are crossed. This show at Mai Manó House in Budapest seeks to present […]
The Korean Cultural Center's exhibition ‘Insights into Nature and Humanity’ provides a comprehensive overview of Korean contemporary photography. The selection of more than 100 images, on display from Tuesday until June 30 as part of the Budapest Photo Festival, spans the past 40 years of South Korean photography through the personal journeys of twelve well-known […]
This year, 3,500 entries were received for the competition for amateur and professional photographers. A professional jury of renowned experts selected the winning photos from almost 38,000 entries. This year again, professional and amateur photographers were invited to participate in the Hungary 365 photo competition in three categories: nature and landscape, built and tangible heritage, […]
The exhibition – Nicolás Muller: The Committed Gaze – sheds light on the work of Nicolás Muller (Born Miklós Müller, Orosháza, Hungary, 1913 – died in Andrín, Spain, 2000). He spent most of his life in Spain and who was one of the leading figures of Hungarian socio-documentary photography and at the same time, he […]
The winners of the 40th Hungarian Press Photography Competition were announced and the prizes handed over at the opening of the 40th Hungarian Press Photography Exhibition in Budapest on Tuesday. The Grand Prize of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) for the most outstanding achievement was awarded to János Bődey (Telex news site) for […]
The Hungarian Press Photo Competition and Exhibition has been the largest Hungarian review for the photojournalist profession for more than thirty years. This year’s winning works of 2020 photos were selected by the jury from 2,515 entries. Not surprisingly, the most covered theme in 2020 was the new coronavirus pandemic. In the 'News, event photo' […]
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 […]
The Association of Hungarian Nature Photographers, NaturArt has announced the winners of the most prestigious nature photography contest in Hungary and Central Europe held this year for the 28th time. In the almost 30-year history of the competition, it was this year that the most pictures were submitted: 4,114. 111 works competed in the final […]
The Photojournalist Section of the Association of Hungarian Journalists has announced the winners of the 38th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition: András D. Hajdú and Bea Kovács, both of them freelancers. The Grand Prize of the Association of Hungarian Journalists went to András D. Hajdú for his series portraying the life of a segregated gypsy community […]
The world’s only permanent exhibition of Robert Capa’s photographs will open in October in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, at the recently refurbished Capa Centre. The news was announced on Tuesday on the occasion of the day of Hungarian photography.
