A város peremén

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Minden városnak vannak olyan nehéz szociális helyzetben élő lakói, akikről a többség keveset tud, vagy a számukra “láthatatlanok”. Budapesten a Gubacsi út és az Illatos út által körülhatárolt terület, egy olyan fizikai- és társadalmi szempontból is elszigetelt városrész, amelynek a története, egykori lakóinak élete kevéssé él a köztudatban.

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A város peremén című interaktív városi emlékezetkutatás a Dzsumbuj történetét és élményanyagait dolgozza fel mélyinterjúk, film- és fotódokumentációk, illetve közösségi programok formájában. A kutatócsapat hajdani lakókkal és helyi szervezetek munkatársaival dolgozik együtt a közösségi események és egy weboldal létrehozásán.

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Szeretnénk, ha nem merülne feledésbe az egykori Dzsumbuj, minél többen megismernék a több mint hét évtizedig fennálló telep történetét. Célunk, hogy a volt lakók életének részletes bemutatásával – több esetben a részvételükkel –, a személyes történeteik révén is feleleveníthessük a Dzsumbuj mindennapjait.

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Photography Master Class at International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and Media – Venice

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The International Summerschool of Fine Arts and Media | Venice is grounded in the tradition of Black Mountain College and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center.
Our interdisciplinary approach welcomes students of all skill levels and backgrounds to our idyllic location in Venice, where the school was founded in 2003. The school partners with the Venice Biennale, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Francois Pinault’s collection at the Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana.
Photography I
Teaching Professor: Krisztina Erdei, Budapest
Dates: June 26 – July 10, 2016
More detils: http://www.sommerakademievenedig.com/en/photography.html

Csak egy példa

A kiállítás egy alternatív fotótananyag, egyfajta gyorstalpaló. Példákon keresztül figyelmeztet a képalapú adatokban rejlő hangsúlyok fontosságára. És persze arra is, hogy a tankönyvek hétköznapinak, közérthetőnek gondolt példái hogyan befolyásolják a tanulókat
Részlet a sorozatból:

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Önkéntesek, 2015 A Bagázs Egyesület önkéntesei a bagi szegregátum területén létrehozott fejlesztő központ kerítését építik.

Ép testben ép lélek, 2016

Keep calm, 2016 A Keep Calm and Carry On posztert a brit kormány gyártotta 1939-ben, hogy morálisan is felkészítse a lakosságot a második világháborúra. 2000-ben Stuart Manley egy könyvesboltban talált rá egy eredeti "Keep Calm and Carry On" példányra. Innentől kezdve vált a poszter olyan inspiráló üzenetté, mely a múlt és a jelen krízishelyzeteit köti össze. Népszerűsége a mai napig töretlen és számtalan mém alapjául szolgál.
Az egyik kép Jeruzsálemben készült azon a helyen, ahol pár héttel korábban egy családot támadtak meg 2015 október 3-án. A másik pedig a 2016-os mohácsi busójárás egyik jelenete.

Just An Example -Exhibition in Godot Gallery, Budapest

Opening: March 2nd 2016 8 p.m.
 Opening by: Miklós Mécs
 Curator: Borbála Laczkovich
 
 
Open: until April 2nd from Tuesdays to Fridays from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
 
Krisztina Erdei studied philosophy and political theory, which is so apparent in her choice of subjects and in her sensibility toward social issues. Her latest works provide a novel approach to the possibilities of photography. She has chosen a new genre, the animated gif, which is so popular and widespread on the internet but which can open up new possibilities in visual thinking when used as an artistic way of expression. This is what Krisztina Erdei makes use of in her photos exhibited here.

The pictures, which she has converted into animated gifs, are expressive in their own right, but they can be interpreted completely differently when, displayed as a sequence of frames, they turn into stories. The stories presented by the photographer may as well be published as a volume of short stories. But they are not just interesting in themselves as they call our attention to the long-term possibilities of gifs: at the exhibition the works are presented as examples of the disadvantaged state of visual education.

While we are exposed to an ever growing amount of visual information, the majority of people would still prefer math classes to drawing lessons. Even today 30-50-year-old methods are being used when teaching the interpretation of pictures in primary schools. But the exhibition offers a new alternative, a potential teaching aid and warns us of the importance of emphases in visual information.

Magnum Emergency Fund

The Emergency Fund supports experienced photographers with a commitment to documenting social issues, working long-term, and engaging with an issue over time. Projects address critical global issues that have not received the attention they deserve, or budding crises that are still over the horizon. Photographers retain the copyright to their work and distribute it widely: through traditional and new media, in collaboration with nonprofits or NGOs, and on the Emergency Fund website.

Each year, a diverse group of photography professionals nominate 100 professional photographers to submit proposals. An independent Editorial Board selects 10 to 20 photographers—based on the strength of their proposals and the importance of the issues they propose to address—to support.

Thank you for the nomination

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Ex & Post – Eastern Europe under the lens

Ex & Post – Eastern Europe Under the Lens takes focus on artistic and photographic practices in the former Communist bloc, surveying the current conditions and recent histories of conflict and socialism through to the transition into capitalist market-driven economies.

Presenting works by 14 artists from across Eastern Europe, the exhibition exposes the implicit variations of a geographical definition that still crystallises symbolic and political frictions.

Particularly focusing on the continuous crisis of individual and collective values, the artists show the implosion of beliefs and principles in private and public contexts, in cities and countryside, in private flats and common grounds, at schools and in working contexts.

Depicting what could be referred to as an Ex & Post condition, the project looks at the residue of trauma from the collapse of socialist systems and how these nations are reconfiguring their cultural identity and the new allegiances at play across Europe and beyond.

Ex & Post has been curated by Sári Stenczer and coordinated by Krisztina Erdei (Photolumen, Budapest) in collaboration with ACP.

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more images and captions:

https://www.facebook.com/krisztina.erdei.77/media_set?set=a.10207845114195999.1539641526&type=3

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Subjective Female Documentalists

As part of Bialystok INTERPHOTO 2015, Arsenal Gallery

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It will be presented from 23 October 2015 to 10 December 2015
Vernissage hrs .: 18:00
Curator: Agata Chinowska
Place: Arsenal Gallery, ul. A. Mickiewicz 2, Bialystok

Artists: Eva Kotátková (Czech), Lucia Nimcová (Slovakia) and Krisztina Erdei (Hungary)

The artists participating in the exhibition in the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok: Eva Kotátková (Czech), Lucia Nimcová (Slovakia) and Krisztina Erdei (Hungary) have quite a lot in common: they are of one generation (born in the late 70s or early 80s of the last century), use an identical medium – photography, and come from the same Visegrad Region. Their creative activity is a subjective recording of the surrounding reality and everyday life. Each artist draws inspirations from their closest environments and settings and simultaneously refers to their past which is presented both as a political system and a nostalgia for the childhood, adolescence etc. What makes their works distinct is their individual sensitivity and unique creative intuition resulting in their choices and decisions of registering particular, specific situations.

http://galeria-arsenal.pl/en/exhibitions/subjective-female-documentalists.html

Roszke, Hungary, 12-13. 09. 2015

This weekend I went home to Szeged and I spent 2 days near Roszke at the Hungarian- Serbian border. After many rainy days the place was really dirty. There were garbage everywhere in the fog, but many Hungarian and foreign volunteers worked in the cloud on the ground to make the “gyujtopont” cleaner and to give food and drink for the tired families just arrived. I also collected a couple of bags of garbage. It was good to see how people worked together without knowing eachother. The problem is that not just the weather was foggy but there was a total obscurity related to the informations. Nobody knew where the buses were going and what were the real options of the people crossing the wall of the police.

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