PhotoBrussels Festival: Connected

The Liszt Institute Brussels presents two exhibitions in collaboration with the Association of Hungarian Photographers during the PhotoBrussels Festival: Connected and Tell your Story

The photos of the exhibitions are selected from the series called Contemporary Hungarian Photography 2024 created by the Association of Hungarian Photographers.

Connected

The photo exhibition showcases stunning nature photography, focusing on the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world. The collection features landscapes, wildlife, and breathtaking moments of nature's beauty, alongside images that explore the connection between people and their environment. Some photos dive even deeper, revealing the hidden world of nature under a microscope, where tiny details become vibrant, artistic compositions. Through these images, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the symbiotic bond between humanity and nature, and the unseen wonders of our ecosystem.

The exhibition opening is followed by a discussion with
- Zsolt Hamarits, president of the Association of Hungarian Photographers, exhibiting phographer
- Imola Hitre, exhibiting phographer
- Márton Kállai, exhibiting phographer

The Association of Hungarian Photographers is the principal association for photography in Hungary. Since its foundation, the Association has been active in popularizing and researching Hungarian photography. It has supported the development of photographic culture in Hungary through its grants and awards.
With almost three hundred members, the Association comprises the leading exponents of Hungarian photographic art. Indeed, most of the Association’s members have been awarded art prizes in Hungary. Over the course of its six decades of existence, the Association’s membership has included such important figures in Hungarian photography as Angelo, Nándor Bárány, Cornell Capa, Károly Escher, Kata Kálmán, Gábor Kerekes, György Lőrinczy, Lucien Hervé, József Pécsi, Dénes Rónai and Ernő Vadas.
In 1977, the Association founded the Studio of Young Photographers, which it still operates. The Studio is the leading professional organization for young Hungarian photographers.
The tasks of the Association include the holding of photography exhibitions and professional events, as well as supporting the realization of the artistic goals of university students in Hungary by means of its scholarship programme. Founded in 2016, the scholarship programme – which was announced on the sixtieth anniversary of the Association’s founding – will, each year, offer three students studying at higher education institutions in Hungary opportunities to undertake creative work and present their work. The Association’s research programme supports the realization of research on Hungarian photography, embracing such disciplines as Aesthetics, Art History, Media Studies, Sociology and Economics.

Opening hours of the exhibition
23/01-21/02/2025
Opening event on 23/01/2025 at 7pm
Open on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26/01/2025 from 3pm-7pm
from 27/01/2025 open from Monday to Thursday between 10am and 5pm, and on Fridays between 10am and 3pm

Photo workshop by Barnabás Horváth from the Association of Hungarian Photographers - 20/02/2025, 2-6pm - REGISTRATION
Learn from an award-winning photographer how capture the beauty of Brussels.

Exhibiting artists

Vera A FEHÉR ( Kecskemét, 1983 - ) autodidact photographer, she established the Hibaista group in 2006. Member of the Studio of Young Photographers.

Péter ASSAY H. (Veszprém, 1952 - ) photographer. Péter is looking for picture fragments from the visual world, which are moving at the border of intimate decadency and subjective documentarism, i.e. the visions of intimate destruction. Member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers since 1995.

Balázs DEIM (1987, Budapest), photographer takes photos especially in Szentedre Museums. He documents conscientiously the city's major artistic tradition of cultural events. In his creatiwe work shows the urban structure of the built enviroment. He is member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers, since 2017.

Géza Attila GALYASI (Komló, 1976) photographer. Initially, he studied nature photography with János Szekeres, and later worked and studied with Attila Mudrák while studying at secondary school. He is a member of the Esztergom Photography Club and the Association of Hungarian Photographers. He is a cultivator of analogue photography. His photographs on black and white negatives are treated with chemicals afterwards, thus creating an always unique image surface. His subjects turn their backs on urban life, and it is nature (Danube Bend, Gerecse, Pilis) and the abandoned, industrial environment where his peaceful, lyrical art finds a home.

Luca GŐBÖLYÖS has completed her studies at the Department of Photography, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. She always considered photography a broader medium than its traditional fields, artistic photography, portrait photography or socio- and documentary photography, that are rather popular in Hungary due to their long tradition. She considers the technique of photography, the medium as a tool to give form to her thoughts, concepts and not as an end in itself.

Barnabás HORVÁTH passed his photography exam in 1996, and his first solo exhibition was the House series in 1998 at the Művész Cinema. Horváth has been a professional photographer for 25 years. Most of his time has been spent as an employed photographer, but he has also experimented and produced his own work. Recently, he has started to take up photography more seriously again, because he felt the need to bring back to the fore the unquenched youthful enthusiasm that had led him to pursue this career.

Márton KÁLLAI was born in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. During his sociology studies at ELTE University his interest in photography began to evolve. He works as a photojournalist since 2006, mainly documenting the daily life of the Hungarian countryside.

Ferenc KANYÓ (Gyoma, 1946 - ) photographer, at first he was interested in sociophoto and documentarism, then he made political reports. His pictures was published in the Fotó/Photo, Forrás/Source, Új Tükör/New Mirror, Valóság/Reality and in the Fotóművészet/Photography. Now, he is bound up in architectural – and nature photography and in creating digital montages. From 2001 until 2013, he taught photography in the Kálmán Nádasdy Elementary and Art School in Budapest. He is one of the founders of the Studio of Young Photographers and since 1979, member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers.

László LEHOTKA (Vác, 1948 - ) freelancer, photographer, especially had success with advertising photo. His work is characterized by fine art approaches. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers since 1982.

János MÉSZÁROS (Törökszentmiklós, 1962 - ) photographer, acts principally as a photojournalist (Local reporter of the Newspapers of Szolnok county and of the MTI- Hungarian News Agency.) He is a member of Association of Hungarian Photographers since 2002.

Miklós SÉLLEY (Szekszárd, 1955 - ), nature photographer, through his pictures tries to draw attention to choked natural beauty and civilization values. Member of Foto Natura Nature Photographers Association (2007), member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers since 1996.

László SULYOK (Szombathely, 1979 - ) photographer, commercial photographer. Between 2001-2007 the editor of monthly magazine Fotó Mozaik, currently working for online news portals. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers since 2006.

László TASNÁDI (Budapest, 1954 - ) printer, typographer, photographer. He worked in the Kossuth Printing House. Between 1985 and 90 the secretary of Studio of Young Photographers Hungary, member of the Association of Hungarian Photographers since 1986 (presidency member 1992-97). Between 1994-97 a member of the National Cultural Fund Board of Trustees of Photography. Mostly interested in experimental photography, such as polaroids.

dr. János VIZÚR (Szőny, 1955 -) psychiatrist, photographer, he primarily tries to catch the phenomenas and spirituality of the nature with his photographs. Beside his medical career, he teaches nature photography on vocational trainings. He is a member of the Society of Hungarian Nature Photographers (naturArt), of the Nimród Photo Club and of the Szentendre Fine Art Association of the IKON Group. He was admitted to the Association of Hungarian Photographers in 2004.