The photography grant created for commemorating the photographer, professional writer and photography teacher József Pécsi (1889–1956), was founded by the Ministry of Culture and Education in 1991. Its purpose is to help to start the career, creative work, and development of talented photographers working as independent artists, and to provide them with favorable conditions for the creation of high-quality artworks which are modern both in terms of form and content.
Few things are as exclusively our own as our face. One of the most fundamental elements of our identity is at once the most intimate and yet the most public part of ourselves: we almost never cover this part of our body, even when entering a public space; in some countries, covering the face is even a punishable offense. So, we have an apparent obligation to be identifiable when we show up somewhere. But how far does the obligation to be identifiable extend, and where does the monitoring of people slip into unlawful and authoritarian surveillance?
