They will join the platform’s activities to present their work to international professionals and to network, amongst other opportunities that will be developed for them, including exhibitions, publishing opportunities, portfolio reviews, and more.
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Sári Zagyvai
In the past few years Sári Zagyvai has been exploring the transitions and patterns between the existing physical world and the computer-based virtual reality. Zagyvai’s series, Produced Nature and Imaginary Excursion contain digitally manipulated images that act as reminiscences of our everyday explorations on the web.
Hanna Rédling
Hanna Rédling was born in Pécs in 1993 and now divides her time in Budapest and Rotterdam. She holds a BA and MA in Photography from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest) and studied Photography at Willem de Kooning Academie (Rotterdam). Her works focus on the uncertainty of present existence and understanding and defining individual and collective nostalgia. Her photographs show childish curiosity and optimism merged with anxieties of unpredictability of the future and virtual world simultaneously.
Andi Galdi Vinko
Andi Galdi Vinko is an internationally acclaimed artist working in photography. She studied photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and at Esag Penninghen in Paris, as well as art history and aesthetics at ELTE University in Budapest. Her work draws visual analogies between intensely personal and intimate experiences of motherhood, womanhood, and universal human experiences of coming of age, ageing, loss, and the conflict between western and eastern European ideologies.
Benedek Bognár
Benedek Bognár (1986) lives and works in Budapest. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in photography from the Moholy-
Nagy University of Art and Design. In 2012 he studied performance and video art at the Estonian Academy of Art in Tallinn on an
Erasmus scholarship. His series of works address issues related to current social phenomena, aiming to create unusual or new
perspectives. He is primarily concerned with the symptoms of virtuality, digitalization, and the age of image-based communication.
In his work, he often reflects on photography itself as a medium capable of creating the illusion of an objective representation
of the world and its role in the process of human cognition. In his recent work, he has been concerned with modern myths and
the general human need for irrational stories to explain the world. In his thesis, Genesis, he examined how the entertainment
and advertising industries use the patterns, archetypes, and topoi from which humanity’s ancient great myths were built, from
the perspective of the functioning of consumer society. In his work CUI PRODEST, which he is working on under the József Pécsi
Photography Scholarship, he deals with the pseudo-news and disinformation of the world, which are based on irrational contexts
and enemy images instead of scientific paradigms.
János R. Szabó
János R. Szabó (1992) was born and raised in Kömörő, a small village in the northeastern part of Hungary. This particular locale plays a major role in his inspiration as an artist.He completed her BA photography studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2018. He has been an active creator of the underground cultural segment of Budapest since 2018. Beyond his regular practice as a photographer he is in strong collaboration with the performance art scene of Budapest as performer and art director. He is invested in sociophoto and depiction of people, researching the patterns of human personalities, and the connection between memory and documentation.
