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| 27th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition |
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| Wednesday, 25 March 2009 09:56 |
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Hundreds and hundreds of photographs that are all worth seeing. Dramatic and happy life situations, exceptional artistic and sports achievements, as well as natural miracles come to life in these pictures. Pictures of the still unclear happenings that took place at the football match in Dunaszerdahely, of the opening of the Megyeri Bridge in Budapest, of the farewell to Olympic champion canoeist György Kolonics, of the homeless who keep up their existance among humiliating circumstances. Of that very last performance by puppet artist Henrik Kemény, of the garden of the Great Synagogue in Dohány Street, of the everyday life of a peasant boy in Transylvania. Of the monotony of life in the housing estates, of the anti-fascist demonstration in Budapest’s Hollán Ernő Street. The conflict in South Ossetia, the new generation in Vietnam. The summer Olympic Games in Beijing. The duel of the hawks. The shocking moments of the opening of the borders in 1989.
Within the framework of the Budapest Spring Festival the National Federation of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) is once again to organize the 27th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition to be held at the Hungarian National Museum between March 20 and April 26, 2009. The main exhibition is to be accompanied by another exhibition entitled "Years since Opening the Borders". The exhibition which is to be open for over a month will prove to be an adventure and a travel back in time to the events of 2008 – a year past, but one that certainly influenced our lives. The Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition was preceded by the press photo competition called for by the Photography Section of MÚOSZ, attended by thousands of pictures by professional and amateur photographers. The interest towards the competition and exhibition is best illustrated by the fact that a total of 11 939 pictures by 592 photographers were entered for the 2008 competition. The topicality of the accompanying exhibition entitled "20 Years since Opening the Borders" is that the country’s western borders were opened on September 11, 1989. This event was detrimental not only for the future of Hungary but also that of Europe. It was the birth of a unified and free Europe. The 20th anniversary is an opportunity to reflect on those events with well known and earlier unpublished photographs.
4 p.m. March 19, 2009 This is when the book entitled "The Press Photo of the Year" will be introduced which provides a wide selection of the pictures submitted to the 2008 Press Photo Competition, as well as the representative catalogue of the accompanying exhibition “20 Years since Opening the Borders”. This annual wide-ranging and popular exhibition will not only be displayed in Budapest but also in the towns of Debrecen, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged – to be seen by additional tens of thousands of people. Source: www.mnm.hu |
| Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 March 2009 10:47 |
