Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

mg src="https://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/002.jpg" alt="Balázs Máté - Parallax, 2014" width="400" height="600" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-61166" /> It may not make sense why the most prestigious scholarship for young hungarian artists working in the field of photography has almost absolutely no online presence. The scholarship was founded in 1991, right after the democratic change, and since then every year ten photographers, each for a maximum of three years, could produce valuable projects with its support. As I just quickly run through the list of artists who's carrier was secured by this scholarship, among them mine, I have the impression that it had the most significant influence on the future of Hungarian photography in the last 25 years. And yet there is only an obscure page with some downloadable word documents at the exclusively hungarian language website of MANK, the state funded provider of scholarhips across all fields of culture, artist-in-residences, and housing for artists. It is the greatest luxury to let something of this magnitude go unnoticed under the radar of the international (and hungarian) community. This year, another ten young photographers are on the list: Viola Fátyol, Attila Floszmann, Adél Koleszár (whose work I mentioned in an earlier post), Zsuzsanna Marinka, Balázs Máté, Péter Németh, Alíz Veronika Ács, Márton Kállai, Andrea Schmied, László Végh.