RECOMMENDED: Kereki Sándor exhibition @ Robert Capa Center, Budapest / 2023.12.06. - 2024.02.04. 📷🚋🇭🇺
Sándor Kereki did not study photography in formal schools. He settled around and was known for documenting the 6th and 7th districts of Budapest (the less touristic segments of city center at the time). The location of the current exhibition itself, namely the building of today's Capa Center also became part of the set of streets visited by the photographer back in the day. According to oral history Sándor Kereki put down his camera in the early eighties. For more than ten years, he roamed Budapest, anticipating certain situations, gestures and faces. Photographs for order were out of the question. Yet it was an age when people still allowed themselves to be photographed as it was not common practice to have a camera in every household! Not to mention the common struggle of many, being unsure how the negatives would turn out, thus leaving it to a professional to take the pictures, even if bumping into such characters on the street! This was somewhat a magical moment for many! In a period when being photographed in public could mean anything... (ÁVH, STASI, etc.) Sándor Kereki's photos regarding Hungary of the 1970s evoked the now internationally recognized (trending) genre of street photography. His pursuit ended up in seven thousand exposed negatives. Source: capacenter.hu
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