André Kertész Hall
George Eastman Hall

upcoming
exhibition The Exhibition EXTENDED
to 2nd October 2011 BUDAPEST POSITIVE
10 Years of the Budapest Photography Grant
Imre Benkő, Tamás Dezső, Balázs Gárdi, Norbert Hartyányi, Dániel Kovalovszky, Gábor Arion Kudász, Márk Simon, Gyula Sopronyi, György Stalter, Zoltán Vancsó

Curator: Sári Stenczer
Opening remarks by Enikő Eszenyi actress, Director of Vígszínház

Open to the public: 1st July to 2nd October 2011
on Weekdays: 14.00 - 19.00
at Weekends 11.00 - 19.00

Márk SIMON
b. 1976, Pápa

Spa City

Owing to his line of work, from time to time, Márk Simon has to give photographic account of events, people and locations. Constructed in terms of the three unities, his series on the spas of Budapest is a lot more than a simple account. The photographer familiarly presents the milieu where the otherwise customary and constrained public space role-play is loosened up in the hot steam, and is recorded in images of a relaxed mood. This is contrasted by playful yet strictly composed still lifes, relating a still familiar past when the regular visitors in the portraits were in their prime.

Márk Simon made his series Spa City in 2007, supported by the Budapest Photography Grant.

http://www.simonmark.hu/

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