Sándor Kereki oeuvre exhibition
The photographs of Sándor Kereki have almost disappeared forever. The astonishing street scenes of Budapest that lurked in the bottom of a drawer for half a century are on display at the Capa Centre. The history of Hungarian photography has surprises in store even for those who follow and research its events. Two years ago, Fortepan acquired an unparalleled oeuvre.
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Sándor Kereki was born in 1952 and started taking photographs at the age of 16, during high school, with the camera his father gave him for his birthday. He never studied photography in a formal setting and put down his camera for good in the early 1980s. But for a decade or more, he walked the city, looking for situations and faces for himself and never for commissions - at a time when people still let themselves be photographed. On paper, a city the size of Budapest would not be enough to take pictures like a real metropolis, but for Sándor Kereki it was big enough at the time.
The outstanding value of the pictures is that he was a teenage boy with a camera in his hands, who pushed through the iron curtain and, as a contemporary artist, swam unnoticed in the mainstream of international street photography in Budapest in the 1970s.
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
The downtown institution aims to promote world-famous Hungarian photography.