Bruno Bourel
is the master of photographs, and of portraits in particular. The main focus of his photos is
Budapest
, the city that has been his home for the past 20 years now. His tools - a traditional camera and black and white film - are tools for showing a world beyond time, a minimalist technique letting the expression of emotions dominate.
The artists continues to develop the directions he’s explored so far and that are already apparent in his book
“Fényrajzok Budapest”
(Magvető, 2000). Following his exhibition about the Jewish community (2008, Rumbach Sebestyén utcai synagogue) and his Jégbüfé series showcased in 2014 at CEU, he’s reinterpreted his previous paths, coming up with the new theme of love.


Everyone knows it, it is everywhere, everyone stumbles upon it every day: in the subway, on the street, on the bus, in the hustle and bustle of gay pride marches, at church weddings, in the form of unmasked seduction, in the touches of strangers…


The urban setting sometimes adds a particularly humorous frame to his story.




The black and white photos taken over the last two decades form the basis of his new book. “Fényrajzok Budapest”, his previous publication with quotes from
Lajos Party Nagy
, is already on its fourth edition.


Bruno Bourel was born in Paris in 1957. After studying music and film, he started taking photos with a Polaroid SX 70 at the end of the 1970s. He’s lived and worked in Budapest since 1993.