Our exhibition under the title “Familar Strangers - Colour Snapshots from the 1950s” gives a sample of the more than 10 000 MTI (Hungarian News Agency) photos taken during that period and recently digitized as part of a great project.

This exhibition is truly just a sample since our services are based on our archive, which includes about 14 million photo negatives, 1.7 million digital photos - the number of which is increasing day by day - a permanently expanding database now consisting of 4 million news items released in the past 25 years, further press releases from before 1988 and more than 10 thousand infographics.

Our aim is to provide access to the photos - including both recent shots and constantly processed archive pictures - for everyone as soon as possible so that anybody can find these items on the Internet for various possible purposes ranging from research to purchase. Thus the audience may get new types of impression from the periods in question and one might even come across some so far unknown photos taken by some of our acknowledged photographers like Ernő Vadas, Béla Jármai, Rudolf Járai, Sándor Bojár or László Gere.