Meet Sándor Kereki, the Hungarian photographer who takes you back to the streets of Budapest in the 1970s.
Meet Sandor Kereki, the Hungarian photographer who takes you back to the streets of Budapest in the 1970s. Given a camera by his father at the age of 16, he spent the next 10 years wandering the streets of the city.
Many will especially recognise the 6th and 7th districts, where he captured everyday moments.
The self-taught photographer says about everyday life situations he encountered, “The man goes, the street is the street. You find something interesting, and then you go home and look at it and it turns out it’s not that interesting. So there is no plan, the only plan is that he tried not to interfere.”
Kereki’s completed piece consists of seven thousand exposed negatives. Each of the photograph on display is thought-provoking, evoking memories, and in few occasions, some have recognised themselves or a relative.
He explained “I have never done it in such a touching way, I was lucky, the lighting was good, I ran into it and I was lucky to see it, because it happened on the street, but you don’t see something like that everywhere.”
Whilst Sándor Kereki put down the camera in the early eighties, 1,800 images were uploaded to Fortepan in 2021, and some of them are still available to view in the digital photo archive.
The exhibition at the Robert Capa Centre in Budapest is open until 4 February.