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35th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition
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Press release – It is the 35th time that the best Hungarian press photos of the previous year are put on display. We could hold a celebration, as they usually do on such major anniversaries. We could enumerate numbers, records, and results. We could list the names of everyone who has contributed to everything that has been created over the past years. Still, we did not plan a separate celebration, as the Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition itself has always been a kind of celebration in the past three and a half decades. A celebration of photojournalists and photography.
These exhibitions hold a mirror to everything that happened to and around us in the previous year. This present exhibition will not showcase sensations. The photos reflect our everyday reality, and, as they say, it is not the mirror’s fault if you don’t like the image you see.
It is often said that press photo exhibitions tend to present more depressing, sad, sometimes disturbing pictures. In the previous year – fortunately – photographers did find themes and phenomena, where they could reveal the underlying beauty, humanity, and sometimes – it is probably not an overstatement – even valor in human relationships. Such is the image series of Attila Balázs, which earned him the Grand Prize of the Association of Hungarian Journalists, and the André Kertész Grand Prize-winner piece of Máté Szekeres, which presents the joint fight of a mother and her daughter for life.
The main theme of the previous exhibition was the migrant crisis. Although Hungary was less impacted by this modern age phenomenon last year, we can still follow the fate of the people fleeing terror in the superb images of Zoltán Balogh, Dávid Balogh, and István Fazekas.
