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The five artists selected:
Márton Mónus is a freelance photojournalist who explores socially sensitive topics from the classic documentary perspective of the silent observer. In his images, he demonstrates patience, authenticity, and empathy for those he is photographing. It is his intention to show what is happening first-hand on the ground and leave room for interpretation.
Enikő Hodosy has previously revealed human sensibilities through the careful observation of external signs, but in her recent series, she focuses primarily inward and tries to transform the inner images of self-healing and meditation into poetic still lifes. A sensitive, talented, young artist facing a promising future experiences extreme impulses.
Zsófia Sivák was born in the village of Kerecsenden, Heves County, in the northeastern part of Hungary. She knows rural life as her own, and looks at it with that
knowledge, rather than with the wandering gaze of a stranger. She never crosses the boundaries of authentic documentarism: while her strong opinions offer an intimate
insight, she does not interfere with reality in her pictures. She earns the trust of her subjects with good reason, and she never wavers from it.
Kincső Bede has everything that the word ‘futures’ implies. Despite the unpredictability of the future, it is strength and enthusiasm that she brings to her projects with incredible determination. Self-critical, she recognizes her own limitations, yet she is also extremely trusting of her intuition, which makes her work highly emotional. The future is indeed uncertain, but Kincső Bede always approaches her chosen subjects with courage, authenticity, and substance.
Anyone who chooses to work with an analog technique, compose in a viewfinder or work with a given number of images must have a high level of professional knowledge, concentration, and a clearly defined idea. András Zoltai works with analog technology. As a documentary photojournalist, he is constantly looking for socially sensitive topics, human stories. During the post-Soviet period, he produced the series The Chance - Post-Soviet Sports Heritage in Armenia, which shows the fate of athletes in the margins of society. The dilapidated facilities and old-fashioned training methods take us back to the past. His photographs demonstrate a high level of social sensitivity and a deep sense of communal responsibility. As an artist, he believes in the power of images, in his duty to show the photographs to the public.
The five artists selected:
Márton Mónus is a freelance photojournalist who explores socially sensitive topics from the classic documentary perspective of the silent observer. In his images, he demonstrates patience, authenticity, and empathy for those he is photographing. It is his intention to show what is happening first-hand on the ground and leave room for interpretation.
Enikő Hodosy has previously revealed human sensibilities through the careful observation of external signs, but in her recent series, she focuses primarily inward and tries to transform the inner images of self-healing and meditation into poetic still lifes. A sensitive, talented, young artist facing a promising future experiences extreme impulses.
Zsófia Sivák was born in the village of Kerecsenden, Heves County, in the northeastern part of Hungary. She knows rural life as her own, and looks at it with that
knowledge, rather than with the wandering gaze of a stranger. She never crosses the boundaries of authentic documentarism: while her strong opinions offer an intimate
insight, she does not interfere with reality in her pictures. She earns the trust of her subjects with good reason, and she never wavers from it.
Kincső Bede has everything that the word ‘futures’ implies. Despite the unpredictability of the future, it is strength and enthusiasm that she brings to her projects with incredible determination. Self-critical, she recognizes her own limitations, yet she is also extremely trusting of her intuition, which makes her work highly emotional. The future is indeed uncertain, but Kincső Bede always approaches her chosen subjects with courage, authenticity, and substance.
Anyone who chooses to work with an analog technique, compose in a viewfinder or work with a given number of images must have a high level of professional knowledge, concentration, and a clearly defined idea. András Zoltai works with analog technology. As a documentary photojournalist, he is constantly looking for socially sensitive topics, human stories. During the post-Soviet period, he produced the series The Chance - Post-Soviet Sports Heritage in Armenia, which shows the fate of athletes in the margins of society. The dilapidated facilities and old-fashioned training methods take us back to the past. His photographs demonstrate a high level of social sensitivity and a deep sense of communal responsibility. As an artist, he believes in the power of images, in his duty to show the photographs to the public.
Kincső Bede (b. 1995) is a Romanian visual artist with Hungarian roots, who grew up in a small city in Transylvania, Romania. She is fascinated by the communist past of her homeland, the power of the leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, the control exercised by the security agency Securitate, and how this history is passed down across the generations. Currently, Kincsõ lives and works in Budapest, Hungary and she studies at the Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design. She is part of the Studio of Young Photographers.
In 2020 she won the photography scholarship of the Association of Hungarian Photographers. In the same year she was among the winners of Carte Blanche Students, a scholarship founded by Paris Photo, the world's greatest photo art fair. The works of the four winners were exhibited at the Parisian Gare du Nord. Her diploma series, entitled "Three Colours I Know in This World," was chosen for the 10 New Talent 2020 programme by the curators of BredaPhoto Festival and was exhibited in The Netherlands.
Her work is often applauded by the foreign press. Also her photos are part of the Blurring the Lines 2020 issue. From 2020 she is represented by TOBE Gallery, Budapest.
Her interest lies on connections between body, soul and spirit. She focuses on social and psychological issues, their brutality and beauty, which she represents through an ethereal and intimate atmosphere.
She obtained a master’s degree in Photography at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2016. In 2013, she spent a semester in Brussels with Erasmus, later, she completed her mandatory internship in Paris with Erasmus+.
In 2013 she was selected to the top 100 of Google Photography Prize. In 2014 she won a grant to organise her first solo exhibition titled Bleu, which took place at Gallery Várfok Project Room, Budapest. In 2015 her series Animalia Variabilis was shortlisted at the 5th World Biennal of Student Photography, Novi Sad.
In recent years, her photos gained exposure in various places including the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, the Mai Manó House, the Vienna Photobook Festival, the Berlin Photobook Festival, the Mark Grosset Prize, Vendôme, the Kiscell Museum , and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center and der Grief magazine.
She is a member since 2012, and a board member since 2020, of the Studio of Young Photographers. She lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
Márton Mónus (1990) is a freelance photojournalist in Budapest who photographs mainly for news agencies, including Reuters, dpa and MTI. In addition to his everyday, highly varied photojournalism work, he seeks topics with a wider range in his personal projects.
He often follows the subjects of his photo essays for many years. His series are mostly people-focused, trying to explore the problems of individuals or social groups with the tool of photography. His work has been rewarded with honored awards: shortlisted in the See.Me The Exposure Award competition in landscape category, and his image was exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. He has won several awards at the Hungarian Press Photo Competition, including the André Kertész Grand Prize, the Károly Escher Prize and the Zoltán Szalay Prize for three consecutive years for the best-performing photojournalist under 30. He has been participant in international masterclasses such as the Nikon-NOOR Academy Masterclass and is now a third-time scholarship holder to VII Academy seminars.
His latest photo essay on air pollution in Northeast Hungary was chosen by the Reuters news agency as one of the most important Wider Image story.
András Ladocsi’s (b. 1992) desire for seeking and finding the truth comes from the subject he observes. His works reassure and delight the viewer while they are also equally capable of making them uncomfortable.
In his photos, naturalism and realism are greatly anesthetized and organized into tight compositions. The works vibrate between an intimate and a more distanced approach. The artist’s intent to systematize and to create is unavoidably present in the pictures, but his neutral use of space and backgrounds being completely free from identity, provide adequate territory for the observer’s personal interpretation. His art also exhibits noticeable cohesion. This does not sprout from a labored stylistic mannerism but instead from the explicit and successful display of a distinct vision.
András Ladocsi was also nominated for Futures by Hyères Festival.
Zsófia Sivák was born in Eger, Hungary in 1993. She completed her photography studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2019.
She is primarily involved in such documentary photography and projects which allow her to have a long-term cooperation with a given community and document their daily lives objectively without loosing the possibility of subjective associations. Her series are mostly concerned with rural life due to her personal involvement.
After growing up in a small village in the Eastern part of Hungary before moving to Budapest for her studies, the young photographer began to observe more objectively and systematically document the things around her.
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