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László Kunkovács is an Artist of the Nation, a Kossuth and Balogh Rudolf Prize-winning photographer and ethnographer. His exhibition at Artphoto Gallery selects from his images of characteristic landscapes, faces and fates from the Carpathian Basin. They bear evidence to how representing sceneries and the lives of peoples is an undertaking more complex than simply capturing reality. For him, artistic photography is a means that allows the portrayal of a face, a distinctive activity or special object to transcend documentation. There is a deeper content to his works, which are so many distillations of time and fates; they are the products of an art of image-making that represents people and reality with uncompromising precision. These images offer a unique view of the individual world of the Carpathian Basin, the daily lives of those who live here, a tangible milieu that is also mystical, mythic.

This exhibition was created with support from the Hungarian Academy of Arts.