In cooperation with the Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center Tallinn, we are presenting for the first time in Estonia the exhibition of five legendary photographers from the collection of the Hungarian Museum of Photography.
“It’s not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.”. These are the words of Robert Capa, the most famous Hungarian photographer. Although the photo legend said these words partly as a joke, there is some truth behind it. Especially when we talk about photography in the first half of the twentieth century. The selection of “The World’s Hundred Best Photographs”, published already in 1931 by British magazine Modern Photography, included eight names from Hungary, more than from any other nation.
With the exhibition opened at the Documentary Photo Centre we aim to give a glimpse into the Hungarian photographic phenomenon and to make our photographic circles think about what could bring Estonian photographers to spotlight at the competitive arenas of the world photography, as it happened in the first half of the last century with our kindred people from Hungary.
The exhibition will remain open until 23 January 2022.
The exhibition is accompanied by an educational and entertaining audience program supported by US Embassy in Tallinn. For more information, please follow the homepage of Juhan Kuus Documentary Photography Centre.
Exhibition commissioner: Péter Baki, Hungarian Museum of Photography
Curators of the exhibition: Kristel Laur and Toomas Järvet, Juhan Kuus Documentary Photo Centre
Supporters of the exhibition: Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center Tallinn, Embassy of the United States in Tallinn, Estonian Cultural Endowment, Taevas Ogilvy, Joon, Ajar Studios, Tikkurila, Telliskivi Creative City, Hektor Container Hotel
