2021
Contemporary Hungarian Social Photography
Online talk given by Bea Kolozsi (Budapest, Hungary)
Organised by the Cambridge Szeged Society
Wed 16 June 2021, 6:30 (UK time), 7:30 (Hungary time)
Synopsis
We will have a look at the changes in the concept of social photography
– as a branch of documentary photography – through its development, short history and
genre characteristics, with a special focus on its role in contemporary Hungarian
photography.
The talk will be given in Hungarian, consecutively interpreted in English.
Everyone welcome.
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The speaker
Bea Kolozsi (b. 1973 Gyula, Hungary) graduated from the Department of Visual
Communication in MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Arts) in 1999. Among her teachers
were such significant figures of the Hungarian art scene as Imre Benkő, Miklós Gulyás, Tibor
Zátonyi, and Tibor Miltényi.
Bea has taught in various art education institutions in Hungary since then. She became a member of the Association of Hungarian
Photographers in 2012 and joined RANDOM–a Hungarian association of contemporary
photographers–in 2013.
Since 1998, Bea’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally (in the Czech
Republic, Germany, France, and Italy).