A Magyar Fotográfusok Háza 2012-ben angol nyelven is indít előadássorozatot a fotográfia iránt érdeklődő és angol nyelven (is) beszélő közönségnek. A Photography Speaker Series első előadója COLIN FORD, aki Photography – Hungary’s Greatest Export? címmel tart előadást 2012. január 30-án.

A Magyar Fotográfusok Háza 2012-ben angol nyelven is indít előadássorozatot a fotográfia iránt érdeklődő és angol nyelven (is) beszélő közönségnek. A Photography Speaker Series első előadója COLIN FORD, aki Photography – Hungary’s Greatest Export? címmel tart előadást 2012. január 30-án.

Colin Ford CBE was the first senior curator of photography in any British national museum or gallery (National Portrait Gallery, London, 1972-82). In 1982, he became the founding Head of the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (now the National Media Museum), Bradford. After ten years there, he became Director of the ten National Museums & Galleries of Wales. He has written more than a dozen books on historic photographers – among them Julia Margaret Cameron, „Lewis Carroll‟, D. O. Hill & Robert Adamson and André Kertész – and has mounted many exhibitions.

“We need photographs to communicate our particularities and our national character.” In 1914, when Hungarian photographer Rudolf Balogh wrote this, photography – like other forms of Hungarian art – was firmly under the influence of European practice. Balogh‟s words marked the beginning of the decades when Hungary‟s photographers were world-leaders; his call to arms was answered by a number of photographers working in Hungary. Some of them, such as Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy and Munkácsi, went on to make their names in Germany, France, Britain and the USA, and are now universally known for the profound changes they brought about in photojournalism and art photography. Others, such as Károly Escher and Rudolf Balogh, remained in Hungary, producing equally high-quality and innovatory photography. The worldwide legacy of these Hungarian photographers cannot be underestimated: Henri Cartier-Bresson said: “Whatever we have done, Kertész did first.”