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.

Why don't we just all go on vacation? Well, Sári Zagyvai needed money to pay her rent so she took the job of "keywording" images at a stock photo agency. She lasted nine days, but that nearly 70 hours employment had great effect on her art. One needs some kind of alternative reality or goal to withstand the mind-numbing monotony, so it seems she took her own Imaginary excursions. She says: "Humans had essentially been born to be hunter gatherers but since the consumer era, the physicality of the modern man in the Western world has largely been confined to walking and strolling. My digital montages are acts of reminiscences of our everyday web explorations." It may not be closely related to photography but András Zagyvai, Sári's father invented a brain-melting puzzle, the smartegg. Just in case you get bored of looking at pictures.