SUMMARY– 2024/3

Noémi B. Tier: Play/Replay - Replay
György Gáti has fifty years of photographic experience. On his seventieth birthday, Noémi B. Tier interviewed him about what still motivates him and how he keeps renewing his work.

Viktor Bera: Unexpected Resurrection - Wet Collodion Direct Positives in Contemporary Hungarian Photography
Why have nineteenth-century photographic processes returned? After a 1990s revival, more artists now practise these techniques. This essay reviews contemporary Hungarian examples in their historical context.

Andrea Bordács: Depressed Sunsets - Photographs by Gregory Crewdson
An Albertina (Vienna) retrospective frames a survey of Crewdson’s oeuvre, tracking shifts in his approach and links to cinema, staged photography, and the visual language of loneliness.

Szilvia Csanádi-Bognár: The Collection, Post-Production, and Identity in the Work of Lajos Csontó
Across decades of practice, Lajos Csontó has built an exceptional, photo-based oeuvre. This article offers a systematic analysis through a media-theory lens, mapping contexts and inner relations across his series.

Gábor Ébli: Turning Fifty and Turning Contemporary
Founded in 1974, the Hungarian National Gallery’s Collection of Contemporary Art is presented in a refreshed permanent exhibition featuring numerous photo-based positions.

Gábor Ébli: In the Current - Photo-based Works in the LuppArt Collection
Born from a summer art colony on a tiny Danube island north of Budapest, the LuppArt collection has grown over the last decade to include experimental, photography-rooted works.

Zsuzsa Farkas: Is Collecting a Pleasure or a Passion?
Antal Simonyi was a leading nineteenth-century Budapest photographer. Based on extensive sources, this piece examines his career, business methods, and the technical skills required of a top-tier studio.

Anna Kovács: “My Pictures Will Just Be Pictures”
Lilla Szász supports communities who struggle to voice their needs, using participatory documentary photography. During her INDA Gallery show, Anna Kovács interviewed her about this approach.

Gyöngyi Pál: The Cameraless, Apollo, and AI’s Private Photo Album - Diploma Works of the Rippl-Rónai Art Institute’s Photography MA
Students completed their diploma projects under Gábor Ősz and Gergely Szatmári. The analysis shows how the works, and their supervision, respond to a rapidly changing world.

Olivér Tóth: “The Moments I Remember Most Are the Ones I Didn’t Photograph” - Interview with Lenke Szilágyi
For five decades, Lenke Szilágyi has been a central figure in Hungarian photography. This conversation explores her relationship to images and history and offers insight into her practice.