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contemporary photography

Intuition, Experimentation and Playfulness | Interview with Zane Priede
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Intuition, Experimentation and Playfulness | Interview with Zane Priede

Zane Priede is an art director, photographer, and set designer based in Riga, Latvia. She studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven and has won several awards in the last few years. In her work, she experiments with unexpected combinations of materials, discovers nuances of light, and searches for new ways
A journey of inner and outer landscapes | Dreamscapes by Dóra Kontha
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A journey of inner and outer landscapes | Dreamscapes by Dóra Kontha

The experimental analog photographs of Dóra Kontha’s album entitled Dreamscapes are filled with personal memories, sensations, and emotions belonging to different physical places. Photography most often serves to capture reality, to reproduce a given thing as faithfully as possible. But it can also be used to create scenes that
Other kind of attractions in Bratislava | Lenka L. Lukačovičová: Lonely Planet Trnávka
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Other kind of attractions in Bratislava | Lenka L. Lukačovičová: Lonely Planet Trnávka

Lenka L. Lukačovičová’s project Lonely Planet Trnávka shows us an unknown face of Bratislava, which you won’t find in any kind of travel guide. Hlavné námestie (Main Square), Blue Church, Museum of City History, Castle, Saint Martin’s Cathedral. These are the ‘Top Choices’ among the ‘Must See
The secret life of panel dwellers | Photo series by Balázs Somorjai
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The secret life of panel dwellers | Photo series by Balázs Somorjai

Dozens of antlers and bus models, IKEA furniture and granny sofas, pets and stuffed animals, guitars and a chandelier left over from Socialism—this and much more can be discovered in Balázs Somorjai’s photographs of Budapest’s panel dwellers. Panel houses (‘panelház’ or ‘panel’ is a Hungarian term for
The Magic of Odesa – Interview with Yelena Yemchuk | Printed Pasts
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The Magic of Odesa – Interview with Yelena Yemchuk | Printed Pasts

Yelena Yemchuk grew up in Kyiv but emigrated to the USA with her family when she was still a child. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she had the chance to return to Ukraine, and when she first visited Odesa, she was fascinated by its atmosphere. From 2015 she
Hidden and authentic | Documentary photos from Moldova
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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
Gábor Máté: Inner Sky
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Gábor Máté: Inner Sky

Gábor Máté’s photography exhibition Inner Sky, which explores the complex relationship between the personalities of parents and their children, is open for a few more days. Through the eyes of young adults and children, the photographer’s series seeks to reveal how parents and their relationships with each other
Arché, or returning to the beginnings of culture | Kacper Kowalski’s photobook
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Arché, or returning to the beginnings of culture | Kacper Kowalski’s photobook

The result of years of work by the photographer, this photobook shows the variability of the Polish ice world. This year, Kacper Kowalski received the International Photography Awards for the project. The first photos in the book were taken during the winter of 2016 and 2017. From an altitude of
A Ukrainian photography magazine revives the reality of the 90s
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A Ukrainian photography magazine revives the reality of the 90s

SALIUT is a contemporary photography magazine that serves as a platform for emerging and renowned Ukrainian artists. The second issue of the magazine was published this summer, and just like the first, the cover featured two controversial photos. While the first issue was based around female photographers, this one focuses
In and out of focus—photos of the Hungarian edgelands
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In and out of focus—photos of the Hungarian edgelands

Who and how do people live in areas far from the cities? Photographers Marcell Piti and Dániel Halász focused their eyes and cameras on landscapes far from the centers and out of focus: they documented the locales, people, and objects of the edgelands. Now we can take a look at
Motherhood through the camera lens | Interview with Luca Markó
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Motherhood through the camera lens | Interview with Luca Markó

Visual artist Luca Markó graduated from MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design—the Transl.) in 2018, with a degree in Media Design and today she is the happy mother of a little girl. On her Instagram page, she shares her analog photos on a daily and weekly basis, through
Photographs mirroring the Rorschach test
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Photographs mirroring the Rorschach test

A special photographic exhibition has opened at the Dubniczay Palace in Veszprém to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach. The group exhibition Rorschach Image features works from the last fifty years of Hungarian photography on the analogy of the psychological test named after the Swiss psychiatrist
A new exhibition opens in Veszprém presenting Hungarian photographic works from the last fifty years
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A new exhibition opens in Veszprém presenting Hungarian photographic works from the last fifty years

The House of Arts Veszprém’s group exhibition Rorschach Image, open until mid-June, presents a selection of Hungarian photographic works from the last fifty years. The exhibition in three separate exhibition spaces deals with questions of mirrors and mirroring and is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of
Where are you, girls? |  Nanavízió x Éva Szombat—Women Quota
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Where are you, girls? | Nanavízió x Éva Szombat—Women Quota

A long consultation and preparation preceded the completion of the photo series, which took the form of a calendar to celebrate the 12th birthday of the Nanavízió architectural firm. From the joint project of Éva Szombat with Nanavízió, on January 15, 2022, an exhibition entitled Nanavízió x Éva Szombat: Women
The world of aeromodellers—Captured by Ádám Földi
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The world of aeromodellers—Captured by Ádám Földi

Aeromodeling is a longstanding but little-known hobby, a real curiosity for those who get into it today without a modeling ancestor in their family. Although the practice, which can be a recreational hobby as well as a competitive sport, seems to be fading, there are still modeling communities that ambitiously