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26 • 04 • 13 Gáspár Kéri

“This story is not only about Chornobyl as a tragedy, but also about how memory survives” – A conversation with Maxim Dondyuk on his exhibition at Mai Manó House in Budapest

The exhibition Maxim Dondyuk: In the Zone of Oblivion – The Chornobyl Archives is open to the public at Mai Manó House from March 1 to May 17. The internationally acclaimed Ukrainian photographer and visual artist, born in 1983, has spent five years in the Exclusion Zone documenting the territory gradually reclaimed by nature. Over time, his focus shifted toward the documents left behind in houses, apartments, and various institutions—rolls of negatives, photographs, letters, and postcards. Dondyuk’s project, the Chornobyl Archive, currently comprises 20,000 items alongside his own photographs, from which the Budapest exhibition also presents a selection. On the occasion of the exhibition, we spoke with the artist.

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24 • 02 • 29 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, “Together, we created a third eye” – Conversation with Elsa and Johanna 24 • 02 • 29Anna Kereszty Two recurring faces, countless characters and stories. Reality, fiction, nostalgia, melancholy, identity, longing, memory and loneliness. These mingle in the work of two […]

23 • 09 • 04 Anna Kereszty

“A lot of my inspiration comes from my dreams and I take a lot also from everyday life” – Interview with Yelena Yemchuk

Yelena Yemchuk is a unique and multitalented artist who is not only a photographer but also a painter and video artist. The Kiev born photographer emigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 11 but her Ukrainian roots have always been a key part of her life and a source of inspiration. Her book, УYY, published in 2022 by Depart Pour L’Image, functions kind of personal diary that gives an insight into the photographer’s personal world and her feelings for her homeland. The book from which a selection is presented on the walls of PaperLab Gallery was nominated for the Paris Photo/Aperture First book Prize in 2022 and this year won the first prize in Best International Photobook category of the PHotoESPAÑA festival.

23 • 01 • 15 Zita Sárvári

The imagination of Petra F. Collins

What lies behind the deeply intimate and private images of this young Canadian-Hungarian photographer? With over one million followers on Instagram, Petra F. Collins is one of the most influential young photographers of our time. An artist and model in one, a kind of Warholian character. The main subject of her images is adolescence, with its idealized beauty and naivety, and the different realities of femininity. She shoots her emotional, dreamlike photographs on film, imbued with a dark sadness.