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Judit Baranyai, Péter Korniss and Françoise Paviot at the opening of the exhibition
The exhibition of the award-winning Hungarian photojournalist Péter Korniss opened on 3 November 2021 at the Liszt Institute in Paris.
Péter Korniss was born in 1937 in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) and has lived in Budapest since 1949. As a documentary photographer, he has dedicated more than fifty years to capturing the disappearing peasant culture. His works illustrate the social changes in the Eastern European region, the irreversible effects of globalisation and the transformation of rural and village communities.
His exhibition "Constant evolution" in Paris gives an overview of Korniss's oeuvre.
The exhibition features the artist's early black and white paintings of the Transylvanian peasant life of the 1970s and colour photographs of changing rural life of the 1990s, as well as images of the nativity scene in different settings and a series of photographs of migrant women workers from Transylvania.
Cooperating partners: Várfok Gallery-Budapest, Photo Days-Paris, Photo Saint German-Paris, Gallery Keller-Paris.
Related exhibition: Korniss’s "Migrant worker" runs at the Gallery Keller in Paris from November 5, 2021, to December 18, 2021.