"
Photojournalism
has been a distinct genre for almost one hundred years within photography, it is the genre – I deliberately won’t say art – of everyday life. It is so distinct that when it is displayed on the walls of museums and exhibition halls, it doesn’t have to borrow the attributes of other genres. That’s why we did not use the usual picture frames at this year’s
exhibition
."
"The volume of printing is falling day by day, therefore photographs are printed less and less in their original format and we can hardly see paged photo-stories highlighting points of view that help us to understand the events. All these, even if they are not compensated for, will hopefully be evoked by the different arrangement of this year’s press photo exhibition compared to previous years. We have tried to show the atmosphere and the design of newspapers and magazines on the walls of the
Capa Center
. Of course, not a specific version, but a kind of idealized or general, but in any case – unfortunately – less and less existing one. We have made an attempt to show the photographs in an environment similar to their original and natural medium as much as possible.




The long paper scrolls spread on the walls evoke traditional newspaper printing with rotary technology. They are hardly wider than one meter, which made the display on the walls a bit difficult and we often felt that we were confined to a limited surface. What happened to us was just like in editorial offices, when it turns out that a newspaper page is not made of rubber, it cannot be stretched at will and so the number and size of the pictures are limited.




During the designing and preparation period of the
33rd Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition
, our main objective was to organize an exhibition which focuses on press photographs and their creators, the photojournalists as much as possible."




Tamás Szigeti