25 • 02 • 13

• Interview

Anna Kereszty

I see my photographs as pieces of my soul” — in conversation with Mari Ornella

Born to Hungarian-Italian parents in Belgium in 1996, Mari Ornella studied sociology before earning her master’s degree in photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design (MOME). Her graduation project, Through Hardship to the Stars, delves into self-analysis, crossing her own boundaries, society’s unrealistic expectations, issues of femininity, and trauma processing. With this project, she was chosen as one of the artists for Futures Photography, a platform for photography that is co-funded by the European Union, in 2023. Both her personal and commercial projects reflect her humorous, surreal, sincere, and raw style. We spoke about her passion for photography, her creative attitude, and her graduation project.

24 • 06 • 30

• Interview

György Németh

A Previously Unknown Hungarian-Related Photo Collection Discovered in America – Interview with Michael Dobo

In our exclusive interview, you will gain insight into an exciting family story that touches significant figures of 20th-century Hungarian and international artistic life. Our interviewee’s father, Francis F. Dobo (Ferenc Dobó), encountered many famous artists and photographers during his rich and eventful life.

24 • 02 • 29

• Interview

Anna Kereszty

“Together, we created a third eye” – Conversation with Elsa and Johanna

0103 Photo: © Elsa and Johanna: Playground, from the Beyond the Shadows series, 2018, Two recurring faces, countless characters and stories. Reality, fiction, nostalgia, melancholy, identity, longing, memory and loneliness. These mingle in the work of two French photographers, Elsa Parra and Johanna Benaïnous, who have been working together since 2014. The duo’s specialty is […]

24 • 02 • 02

• News

Punkt

National Museum of Photography to Become a Member Institution of the Museum of Fine Arts

With some 700,000 works, the collection of the Hungarian Museum of Photography is the most significant treasury of Hungarian photography, which now finds its new, permanent home near City Park, in what was the villa and studio of György Klösz, one of the most eminent Hungarian photographers. Currently maintained by a foundation but soon to become a public collection and a new member institution of the Museum of Fine Arts, the collection will welcome visitors as the National Museum of Photography from 2025, after the renovation of the building.

24 • 01 • 16

• Interview

Jana Rajcová

Never Do Normal Things! – Conversation with Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams is not only a multi-platinum music artist—he is also an acclaimed photographer who has released six photography books, five of which were published by Steidl. He was inducted into the Royal Photographic Society for his portrait photographs. His interest in photography arose in the 1960s, when he began capturing his surroundings on film: everything from concerts through his girlfriend in a tub to a wall at a parking lot. He wanted to preserve his memories in this way. In the late 1990s, Adams began taking self-portraits for the cover of his own album. He soon went on to photograph friends, other musicians, actors, as well as models.

23 • 09 • 06

• Interview

Benedek Szabó

‘It has become important for me to work against the phoney world around us’ – In conversation with András Vizi

András Vizi’s photographs show a special world. The unusual visual effects that create this irreproducible universe are often created using real, analogue installations. This conceptual creative process, then, involves visual art a sister art, but the focus is always on the photograph. This creative attitude informs the most diverse series, which, however, have this in common: the people shown are imaged in unique ways, and this also leads to a revised representation of the body.

23 • 09 • 06

• Interview

Vera A. Fehér

‘For a long time I did not think of myself as a photographer’ – In conversation with Enikő Gábor

Opened on 4 November at Hegyvidék Gallery in Budapest, as part of the Photo Month 2022 event series, Catches of Light is Enikő Gábor’s retrospective that takes a look at a career of thirty years. We asked the artist, who works at the interface between painting and photography, about the works on view and her plans for the future.

23 • 09 • 06

• Interview

Péter Baki

‘I have always been interested in what a picture has inside’ – In conversation with Zsolt Péter Barta

Balogh Rudolf Prize-winning photographer Zsolt Péter Barta works on the borderline between photography and visual art, and has published his work in two albums (CodeX, 2007 and Csarnok, 2009). Among other things, we spoke with the artist about the problems and accomplishments of contemporary Hungarian photography, as well as the role of institutions in this country and abroad.