a few links to some SETS of PHOTOS on flickr
(click on the thumbnail or the title to get to the flickr page)
(click on the thumbnail or the title to get to the flickr page)
"Budapest catastrophe" #1
actually: recording images which will serve as future reminders of what that afternoon felt like after that heavy rain. That train station is actually next to that great museum, the Ludwig Museum, where I was visiting an opening of a great photo exhibition - I remember how great it felt to take pictures when I was still supposed to be inside the museum
"one roll from the Titanic"
actually: I was at a party at the Titanic International Filmfest which not only got its name after the ship but they even made up a party with a Titanic theme ... which unawares really made its effect .. thanks to that extremely beautiful and unique cinema (the Urania) with all those chandeliers ...
I was taking pictures secretly thinking what a strange and fragile situation it was that while other people at some other places were working hard or watching tv, we, the lucky ones, were celebrating a movie ... I was viewing it from this aspect ... from outside and as if it had been past already ... (I used my pocket camera, of course)
actually: I was at a party at the Titanic International Filmfest which not only got its name after the ship but they even made up a party with a Titanic theme ... which unawares really made its effect .. thanks to that extremely beautiful and unique cinema (the Urania) with all those chandeliers ...
I was taking pictures secretly thinking what a strange and fragile situation it was that while other people at some other places were working hard or watching tv, we, the lucky ones, were celebrating a movie ... I was viewing it from this aspect ... from outside and as if it had been past already ... (I used my pocket camera, of course)
"night bath"
i was at this summer music festival at lake Balaton, and I was very impressed by this night bathing scene but it would have been impossible to capture it with my pocket camera (as of 2006) because the time of exposure would have been too long, so I thought that, similarly to pushing the film in former times (push process) i'd "push the camera": lower the expo to the utmost to gain better speed... that is, taking totally dark pictures intentionally and later, at home, "develop them" by lightening them back up (by setting the gamma curve) ... i loved this idea ... it felt like taking pictures on film (being able to see the actual results only days later :))
i knew they'd look "shitty" ... and I was very happy about it ... the results, however, were beyond my expectation ... they looked so beautiful .. I was struck by their texture, I called this effect "pixel impasto" (impasto being the technique in painting when the brush strokes are thick and visible, coming out of the layer of the canvas) ...
i loved the fact that such spontaneous night bathing I was able to capture
(PS: you could get the impression that I mainly use pocket cameras, cheap but good digital compacts, no, it's not true - however, I make sure that wherever I go i'll have a camera with me and this makes pocket cameras my best friends since about 2006)
i was at this summer music festival at lake Balaton, and I was very impressed by this night bathing scene but it would have been impossible to capture it with my pocket camera (as of 2006) because the time of exposure would have been too long, so I thought that, similarly to pushing the film in former times (push process) i'd "push the camera": lower the expo to the utmost to gain better speed... that is, taking totally dark pictures intentionally and later, at home, "develop them" by lightening them back up (by setting the gamma curve) ... i loved this idea ... it felt like taking pictures on film (being able to see the actual results only days later :))
i knew they'd look "shitty" ... and I was very happy about it ... the results, however, were beyond my expectation ... they looked so beautiful .. I was struck by their texture, I called this effect "pixel impasto" (impasto being the technique in painting when the brush strokes are thick and visible, coming out of the layer of the canvas) ...
i loved the fact that such spontaneous night bathing I was able to capture
(PS: you could get the impression that I mainly use pocket cameras, cheap but good digital compacts, no, it's not true - however, I make sure that wherever I go i'll have a camera with me and this makes pocket cameras my best friends since about 2006)
"scary nature"
Ever since I saw the Tarkovsky movie, The Stalker i've been interested in how scary "nature" could be ... not the ocean, not the swamps or big mountains, but the pure grass, and lying down on the ground ... or being next to a tree ..
Nature is scary because it's neutral ... not lying to you, as a commercial, that “you're being safe” ... it's just there, and you need to practice to have a state of mind acknowledging that you're part of it ...
Kata Törzsök has been one of the two “models” for me whom I “worked” with through times (i do have a picture of her on the wall of the room i'm typing these lines, actually .))
Ever since I saw the Tarkovsky movie, The Stalker i've been interested in how scary "nature" could be ... not the ocean, not the swamps or big mountains, but the pure grass, and lying down on the ground ... or being next to a tree ..
Nature is scary because it's neutral ... not lying to you, as a commercial, that “you're being safe” ... it's just there, and you need to practice to have a state of mind acknowledging that you're part of it ...
Kata Törzsök has been one of the two “models” for me whom I “worked” with through times (i do have a picture of her on the wall of the room i'm typing these lines, actually .))
"sunny socialism #1"
This project is not what it seems :) this is not a retro trip ... but a visual argument :)
in about 2006-2007 It was strange to realize that almost 20 years after the “system shift” (converting from socialism to capitalism) the city still felt just about the same, as if not too much had really been changed ... you could visually detect the same atmosphere everywhere ... so I started a project testing if it was possible to take pictures that'd look like old shots ... proving that we were sort of still living in the past ... and it worked like (bad) magic ... It was tested and proved ... by the means of a visual study (later to be confirmed by social and economic studies too)
(here's the collection page for sunny socialism #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 + #9)
This project is not what it seems :) this is not a retro trip ... but a visual argument :)
in about 2006-2007 It was strange to realize that almost 20 years after the “system shift” (converting from socialism to capitalism) the city still felt just about the same, as if not too much had really been changed ... you could visually detect the same atmosphere everywhere ... so I started a project testing if it was possible to take pictures that'd look like old shots ... proving that we were sort of still living in the past ... and it worked like (bad) magic ... It was tested and proved ... by the means of a visual study (later to be confirmed by social and economic studies too)
(here's the collection page for sunny socialism #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8 + #9)
