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Faces and landscapes of Petőfi’s people | Interview with Róbert László Bácsi and Balázs Mohai
In a long-term project, the Hungarian documentary photography group Pictorial Collective captured the residents of streets named after Sándor Petőfi, providing a subjective snapshot of contemporary Hungarian society. We asked two members of the collective, Róbert László Bácsi and Balázs Mohai, about organization, travel, special encounters, the Hungarian countryside, and
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Love for the Silesian mines—Interview with Marek Locher
Marek Locher is a Polish documentary photographer, who has been documenting Silesian mines for a long time. We asked him about how he started photographing, why he chose the Silesian landscape and the mine as a subject, how he interacts with the miners, and how difficult it is to work
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The Petőfi Streets of Hungary—a photographic insight into Hungarian society
Sándor Petőfi is Hungary’s national poet, who has a street named after him in almost every village. The members of the documentary photography collective Pictorial Collective have traveled thousands of kilometers over a year and a half to capture life on the Petőfi Streets.
The cult of Sándor Petőfi
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Capturing the collapse of the USSR and the Dust afterward—Interview with Mariusz Forecki | Printed Pasts
Mariusz Forecki is a documentary photographer and author of several books. In his photobook titled Kurz /Пыль/Dust, he gathered photographs from his numerous travels around the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—in the final stage of its existence and during the formation of a new socio-political order. He
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Hidden and authentic | Documentary photos from Moldova
Rusty red stars and carport behind the church, horses and Ladas, children and old people playing happily. The documentary images on the Raw/Moldova website show small, joyful and absurd scenes of urban and rural life in Moldova. We asked the creators of the site about the project.
You started
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“I brought the reality from Ukraine. Not glazed over, colored, and distorted. What’s important to me is that it’s authentic” | Interview with photographer András D. Hajdú
András D. Hajdú, a multiple press photography award–winning freelance documentary photographer, has returned from his fifth trip to Ukraine, while his portrait of the defiant-looking little boy from Kherson has traveled the world.
“I haven’t photographed the war itself, because I am interested in human lives. Their joy,
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The impressive interior of the 125-year-old Hamburg City Hall
For two years, German photographer David Altrath documented Hamburg City Hall, which turned 125 years old in 2022.
After the Great Fire of 1842, Hamburg’s new historicist City Hall, which dominates the city center with its 112-meter height, was completed in 1897. Altrath has captured the interiors of the
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Diverse realities through the lens of emerging Hungarian photographers | TOP 5
While the borders of a country can be precisely defined, the stories and vastly different experiences of growing up, the diverse representations of life space, self-awareness, and family histories of the young people who live in that particular country are boundless. In this selection, Hungarian photographers present a slice of
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Eastern Europe documented | TOP 5
The picturesque landscapes of Eastern Europe lead us to forgotten villages, small communities. The identity of Central and Eastern Europe is inspiring to many photographers, as what is a bygone memory elsewhere is the raw reality here in many areas. Five documentary photographers, five perspectives exploring an always exciting subject:
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Eastern Europe documented | TOP 5
The picturesque landscapes of Eastern Europe lead us to forgotten villages, small communities. The identity of Central and Eastern Europe is inspiring to many photographers, as what is a bygone memory elsewhere is the raw reality here in many areas. Five documentary photographers, five perspectives exploring an always exciting subject: