Superb Vintage Posters Designed by György Konecsni
From the 1930s to the 1970s, Konecsni György (1908-1970) was a leading poster artist in Hungary. In the 1930s, his classicist art deco designs first appeared on the streets. Continue reading »
Life Before World War II: Fascinating Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Budapest, Hungary in 1939
Though the history of color photography dates back more than a hundred years, the production and publication of color enlargements (photopositives) has only been widespread since the 1940s, when color film first entered mass use. These fascinating color photographs were taken by an unknown photographer using Agfacolor, they show everyday life in Budapest in 1939, just before the Second World War. Continue reading »
“Visit Hungary”: Artificial Lakes of Délegyháza from Above by Gabor Nagy
Gábor Nagy is a freelance photographer based in Budapest, Hungary. Specialized in outdoors, landscapes, travel photography and film production. Continue reading »
Budapest in the 1980s Through Fascinating Photos
From the 1960s to the late 1980s Hungary was often satirically referred to as “the happiest barrack” within the Eastern bloc, and much of the wartime damage to the city was finally repaired. Continue reading »
This Hidden Chilling Forest Path Looks Like A Trail To Mordor
According to Hungarian photographer Gabor Dvornik: “Strolling near the banks of Donau river near Vác (Hungary) on a foggy morning I found a dark and hidden wooden path which was used a long time ago. Although we say: “never leave the road you know,” I was always curious so I began walking cautiously. Continue reading »
Discover The Relics Of Hungary’s Industrial Past With The Photographer Peter Trembeczki
Peter earned his BA degree as an economist and later graduated from the Photography MA programme of the Moholy-Nagy University Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary. Interested in collective memory, his photo story Victory is an exploration of Hungarian public and industrial buildings that have been either abandoned or modified. Owing to the various degrees of erosion and reconstruction they have experienced, these buildings have taken on an alternative, and at times, grotesque, identity. They have become subjects of collective remembrance — instances of a nation’s socio-political psyche. Continue reading »
Hungary Fashion Photographer Under Fire Over ‘Migrant Chic’ Shoot
Hungarian photographer Norbert Baksa says many people appreciate his latest project – a series of photos in which a scantily clad fashion model is depicted as a migrant – for “what it is meant to mean.” Continue reading »
