PhotoBrussels Festival: Connected

Het Liszt Institute Brussels presenteert twee tentoonstellingen in samenwerking met de Association of Hungarian Photographers tijdens het PhotoBrussels Festival: Connected en Tell your Story.

De foto's van de tentoonstellingen zijn geselecteerd uit de serie Contemporary Hungarian Photography 2024, gecreëerd door de Association of Hungarian Photographers.

Verbonden - Connected

De fototentoonstelling toont prachtige natuurfotografie, gericht op de ingewikkelde relatie tussen de mens en de natuurlijke wereld. De collectie bestaat uit landschappen, wilde dieren en adembenemende momenten van de schoonheid van de natuur, naast beelden die de connectie tussen mensen en hun omgeving onderzoeken. Sommige foto's duiken zelfs nog dieper en onthullen de verborgen wereld van de natuur onder een microscoop, waar kleine details levendige, artistieke composities worden. Door middel van deze beelden nodigt de tentoonstelling kijkers uit om na te denken over de symbiotische band tussen mens en natuur en de ongeziene wonderen van ons ecosysteem.

De opening van de tentoonstelling wordt gevolgd door een discussie met
- Zsolt Hamarits, voorzitter van de Vereniging van Hongaarse Fotografen, exposerend fotograaf
- Imola Hitre, exposerend fotograaf
- Márton Kállai, exposerend fotograaf

De Vereniging van Hongaarse Fotografen is de belangrijkste vereniging voor fotografie in Hongarije. Sinds haar oprichting is de vereniging actief geweest in het populariseren en onderzoeken van de Hongaarse fotografie. Ze heeft de ontwikkeling van de fotocultuur in Hongarije ondersteund door middel van beurzen en prijzen.
Met bijna driehonderd leden bestaat de vereniging uit de belangrijkste exponenten van de Hongaarse fotografische kunst. De meeste leden van de vereniging zijn zelfs bekroond met kunstprijzen in Hongarije. In de loop van haar zestigjarig bestaan heeft de vereniging belangrijke figuren uit de Hongaarse fotografie tot haar leden mogen rekenen, zoals Angelo, Nándor Bárány, Cornell Capa, Károly Escher, Kata Kálmán, Gábor Kerekes, György Lőrinczy, Lucien Hervé, József Pécsi, Dénes Rónai en Ernő Vadas.
In 1977 richtte de Association de Studio of Young Photographers op, die nog steeds bestaat. De Studio is de toonaangevende professionele organisatie voor jonge Hongaarse fotografen.

Tot de taken van de vereniging behoren het organiseren van fototentoonstellingen en professionele evenementen, maar ook het ondersteunen van de realisatie van artistieke doelen van universiteitsstudenten in Hongarije door middel van het beurzenprogramma. Het beurzenprogramma, dat in 2016 werd opgericht en werd aangekondigd op de zestigste verjaardag van de oprichting van de Vereniging, biedt elk jaar drie studenten die studeren aan instellingen voor hoger onderwijs in Hongarije de mogelijkheid om creatief werk te verrichten en hun werk te presenteren. Het onderzoeksprogramma van de Vereniging ondersteunt de totstandkoming van onderzoek naar Hongaarse fotografie en omvat disciplines als esthetiek, kunstgeschiedenis, mediastudies, sociologie en economie.

Openingstijden van de tentoonstelling
23/01-21/02/2025
Openingsevenement op 23/01/2025 om 19 uur
Open op zaterdag 25 en zondag 26/01/2025 van 15u-19u
vanaf 27/01/2025 open van maandag tot donderdag tussen 10 en 17 uur, en op vrijdag tussen 10 en 15 uur

Fotoworkshop door Barnabás Horváth van de Vereniging van Hongaarse Fotografen - 20/02/2025, 14-18u - REGISTRATIE
Leer van een bekroonde fotograaf hoe je de schoonheid van Brussel kunt vastleggen.

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.