From my series "Permanently Overcast"
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Pál Csenki, Szegvár, 2022
Pál, 90, worked on building the walkway in his yard over the course of many weeks during the summer, due to the lack of skilled laborers in the area. He taught himself how to make and pour his own concrete. His children still live here, but his grandchildren moved to the capital of the county, Kecskemét.
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Permanently Overcast
Life changes can have an impact on our personal growth and who we will become. They define the course of our future and determine our fate.
I have been photographing the Great Hungarian Plain for over ten years now. Lately, my renewed focus has been the portrayal of the most pivotal moments these communities and their residents experience. Up close and personal, I witnessed the signs of impermanence, the ageing and migration of the population, and most recently, the direct effects resulting from the current crises, exacerbated by severe drought. For these communities it is especially challenging to predict the future. According to the latest studies conducted in the region, as much as one-tenth of the total Hungarian population will likely disappear in the coming decades, while close to four-fifths will reside in towns and cities.
But the people of the Great Plain are incredibly resilient: their strength has always been founded in their strong sense of identity and belonging. Countryside communities know this fact: regardless who holds the power, the center of their world is the place where they conduct their daily lives. Their powerful sense of belonging is what retains them. Having spent many of my summer holidays in the Great Plain provided me with a unique perspective and inspired me to seek the answers to an essential - as well as personal - question: what will become of these communities in the wake of these life-altering changes, and how will their future outlook be affected?
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From my new series "Permanently Overcast", which won the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary 2022.
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József Bozó, Tömörkény, 2022
József Bozó, 72, lives alone in a small, converted Volvo van on his eight-acre land in Tömörkény. He sold all his belongings several years ago, planning to use the funds to erect a village resembling the ancient era of the Hungarian Conquest, but his idea was not realized.
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Permanently Overcast
Life changes can have an impact on our personal growth and who we will become. They define the course of our future and determine our fate.
I have been photographing the Great Hungarian Plain for over ten years now. Lately, my renewed focus has been the portrayal of the most pivotal moments these communities and their residents experience. Up close and personal, I witnessed the signs of impermanence, the ageing and migration of the population, and most recently, the direct effects resulting from the current crises, exacerbated by severe drought. For these communities it is especially challenging to predict the future. According to the latest studies conducted in the region, as much as one-tenth of the total Hungarian population will likely disappear in the coming decades, while close to four-fifths will reside in towns and cities.
But the people of the Great Plain are incredibly resilient: their strength has always been founded in their strong sense of identity and belonging. Countryside communities know this fact: regardless who holds the power, the center of their world is the place where they conduct their daily lives. Their powerful sense of belonging is what retains them. Having spent many of my summer holidays in the Great Plain provided me with a unique perspective and inspired me to seek the answers to an essential - as well as personal - question: what will become of these communities in the wake of these life-altering changes, and how will their future outlook be affected?
#PermanentlyOvercast #capagrandprize #capacenter #arnyeksav #longterm #longtermproject #documentaryphotography #photojournalism #documentary #pentax645 #mediumformat
It is an incredible honor and great pleasure to be awarded the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize 2022 for my new series titled Permanently Overcast.
This inspiration has been especially important and consequential for me because it provided closure to a ten-year-long series, as well as helped launch a new beginning.
I would like express my gratitude to the @capacenter and the jury members, @laia_abril , @majadyrehaugegregersen , @gellerjudit , @felix_hoffmann__ and @jmelyi
My sincere thanks to @lapozo.books , @ennotes_ and Marianna Robertson for their contribution and expertise they provided for this project.
The Capa Grand Prize Hungary 2022 exhibition is on view at the Capa Center until 22th December.
#linkinbio #capagrandprize #capacenter #permanentlyovercast #arnyeksav #longterm
My project 'Front line' featured on @telexponthu
Thanks to @szabolcsbarakonyi !
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At the beginning of 2020 the world was confronted with one of the biggest challenges of our modern day history. The COVID-19 pandemic redefined daily life for the entire country, including in the Uzsoki Street Hospital. The true heroes of the year were doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers who battled the epidemic, risking their lives every day on the frontline under extremely demanding circumstances.
The Uzsoki Hospital in Budapest has been functioning as the pandemic treatment center since the beginning of COVID-19 infections. The fight against the coronavirus at the Uzsoki Hospital eerily resembles the life-saving measures rendered on the battlefield: treating desperate patients in a life-threatening environment, fighting an invisible and deadly enemy, enduring extreme mental and physical fatigue, witnessing a high number of deaths. The number of deaths in Hungary has reached more than 46,000 since the beginning of the outbreak in 2020. This number is extremely high.
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#frontline #telex #photoessay #documentaryphotography #coronavirus #covid_19 #pandemic #pentax645
I'm incredibly honoured that my series 'Second life' won the Grand Prize of National Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) at the 40th Hungarian Press Photo competition.
Extremely grateful again to Richard Meszaros and all the Uzsoki Street Hospital team who helped me in this project.
#grandprize #sajtofoto #sf2022 #documentaryphotography #pentax645
It's a tremendous honour for me to be awarded five prizes at the Hungarian Press Photo Contest, including the Károly Escher prize for the best news photo and the Márton Munkácsi prize for the best collection.
I would like express my most sincere gratitude to Andrea Ficzere and all the Uzsoki Street Hospital team, and I would like to dedicate these prizes to the doctors, nurses, the coronavirus survivor Richard Meszaros, as well as all the patients and their families who were so courageous to allow me access into their daily lives to witness this invisible enemy.
#award #photocontest #sajtofoto #sf2022 #hungarianpressphoto #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #photojournalism #documentary #pentax645
A photo from my "Second life" series is featured in the current issue of National Geographic Hungary magazine.
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Thirty-year-old Richard Meszaros was diagnosed with the coronavirus during the surge of its third wave in the capital city of Hungary, Budapest.
Richie spent 59 days in intensive care of Uzsoki Street Hospital where he was connected to a ventilator for nearly the entire time followed by his transfer to the COVID-19 Internal Medicine Unit for a total of 113 days. He received a hero’s sendoff from the hospital after the entire staff became united behind him in their life-saving efforts. Richie was healthy without any pre-existing medical conditions nevertheless his chance of survival remained questionable for a very long time. His kidneys failed several times, and the coronavirus damaged nearly all of his organs.
He was eventually discharged from hospital in July after four months, having defeated the coronavirus.
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#SecondLife #richie #natgeohungary #coronavirus #covid19 #uzsokihospital #longtermproject #documentaryphotography #photojournalism #documentary #645
My project “Ypsilons” featured on viszont.hu online magazine. Thanks to @istvanbielik !
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Ferenc Pintér community representative and László Kovács decorating the Christmas tree of the house in the entrance hall of the “green” building under No.11.
Tapolca, 2019
The “Y-Houses” represent not only an architectural characteristic of Tapolca, but also a powerful example of Hungarian rural communities. The buildings, often being both praised and criticised, provided a new impulse to the city of Tapolca in the 1970s. Between 1972 and 1986 nine uniquely designed miners’ houses were erected in the outskirts of the city. One building gives space to a number of people that could easily live in a micro-village. The whole complex houses a population that could make up a village of quite a noticeable size.
The construction of the Y-Houses was an attempt to provide better conditions for the residents. The buildings represented a quality superior to that of the estates consisting of panel houses.
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#tapolca #yhouses #ypsilons #ipszilonok #hungary #easterneurope #longtermproject #documentaryphotography #everydayhungary #everydayeasterneurope #645
Thanks again @fkmagazine for featured my project ‘The New Norm’!
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#thenewnorm #uzsokihospital #photoessay #longtermproject #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #coronavirus #covid_19 #pandemic #pictorialcollective #645
Feeling grateful and honoured to have received three first prizes in the 10th Slovak Press Photo competition's international categories.
My series 'The Borsos Family' finished in the first place in the category of long-term documentary projects, and I've won with the New Year's Eve (single) and The New Norm (series) projects in Everyday Life categories.
Thanks @slovakpressphoto !
#award #photocontest #slovakpressphoto #slovakpressfoto2021 #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #photojournalism #documentary
From my long-term project "The New Norm"
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Patient admittance during the third wave at the Covid emergency department of the Uzsoki Street Hospital in Budapest.
Only few months ago, experts gave cautious answers when asked about the possibility of a fourth wave in the coronavirus pandemic. By now, a resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 cases is the baseline scenario for most of them.
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Within a few months only, the coronavirus named “SARS-COV-2” has pushed the whole World into such a crisis, that humanity hasn’t perhaps seen since World War II.
Our lives practically changed from one moment to the other. A new order stepped in, along with many new terms. Social distancing, curfew, lockdown of cities, travel ban, closed borders, rapid tests, the use of a mask and the regular disinfecting, all became the tools against an invisible enemy.
Since last year, I have been following and documenting the impact of COVID-19 in Hungary to create a personal photo essay of Hungarian society during a time of the pandemic.
#thenewnorm #uzsokihospital #SBO #photoessay #longtermproject #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #photojournalism #documentary #coronavirus #covid_19 #pandemic #pictorialcollective #645 #pentax645
From my long-term project "The New Norm"
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Chairs and tables stacked at a closed restaurant during the third wave at a shopping centre in Budapest.
Only few months ago, experts gave cautious answers when asked about the possibility of a fourth wave in the coronavirus pandemic. By now, a resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 cases is the baseline scenario for most of them.
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Within a few months only, the coronavirus named “SARS-COV-2” has pushed the whole World into such a crisis, that humanity hasn’t perhaps seen since World War II.
Our lives practically changed from one moment to the other. A new order stepped in, along with many new terms. Social distancing, curfew, lockdown of cities, travel ban, closed borders, rapid tests, the use of a mask and the regular disinfecting, all became the tools against an invisible enemy.
Since last year, I have been following and documenting the impact of COVID-19 in Hungary to create a personal photo essay of Hungarian society during a time of the pandemic.
#thenewnorm #shoppingcenter #photoessay #longtermproject #documentaryphotography #contemporaryphotography #photojournalism #documentary #coronavirus #covid_19 #pandemic #pictorialcollective #645 #pentax645
