In conversation with Dutch–Polish photographer Wiosna van Bon on the occasion of her solo exhibiton Family Stranger
moderator
Modem Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen (Hungary) August 31, 2024
https://modemart.hu/en/exhibitions/wiosna-van-bon-family-stranger
Guided tour in conversation with Nóra Winkler in the Eight 100 Years exhibition at Arcus Temporum Festival
curator
Boldogasszony chapel, Pannonhalma Archabbey (Hungary) August 25, 2024
Guided tour in conversation with Miklós Tamási in the Tivadar Lissák's photo diary exhibition
curator
Fortepan Photo Gallery, Kőszeg (Hungary) August 17, 2024
Should I believe it if I see it? – About press photography and authenticity lecture and slideshow
Fotófalu photography art camp, Drégelypalánk (Hungary) August 1, 2024
People of Petőfi Streets book launch
moderator and editor of the book
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) May 28, 2024
in conversation with photographers Róbert László Bácsi, János Bődey, Bálint Hirling, Balázs Mohai, Zsófia Pályi, Ákos Stiller, Ádám Urbán, László Végh and
poet and author of the texts Balázs Szálinger and
graphic designer Ákos Polgárdi (Submachine)
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/konyvbemutato-pictorial-collective-petofi-utcak-nepe-szubjektiv-fotos-latlelet-a-magyar-tarsadalomrol
Generational shift in press photography: colleagues born in the second half of the 90s are knocking on the door! – Round table discussion with projection
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) May 23, 2024
in conversation with Árpád Kiss-Kuntler, Ákos Stiller and Bálint Szajki
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/generaciovaltas-a-sajtofotoban-kopogtatnak-a-90-es-evek-masodik-feleben-szuletettek-vetitett-kepes-ingyenes-kerekasztal-beszelgetes
Artist talk about my curatorial practice with Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Heleen Peeters as part of the Curator Series of VII Insider
online, May 16, 2024
https://theviifoundation.org/event/curator-series-istvan-viragvolgyi
How to create a successful cooperative from from a media outlet's photo desk? – Round table discussion with projection
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) May 15, 2024
in conversation with Orsi Ajpek (Telex), András Éberling (Magyar Nemzet) and Gyula Sopronyi (24.hu)
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/mit-jelent-ma-a-fotoriporteri-muhelymunka-vetitett-kepes-ingyenes-kerekasztal-beszelgetes
Photo in the collection, photo in the exhibition round table discussion organized by MúzeumCafé magazine
Museum of Ethnography, Budapest (Hungary) March 20, 2024
in conversation with Tímea Bata ethnographic museologist (Museum of Ethnography), Éva Fisli historian museologist (Hungarian National Museum), Csilla E. Csorba photo historian, art historian, president of MAFOT (Petőfi Literary Museum) and moderator Marianna Berényi
In the online video series Flashback (Visszapillantó) I asked photographers to find the exact location of their iconic photos taken two, three or four decades ago in Budapest and tell us standing in front of the camera about what they captured of life in the capital from behind the camera.
All episodes of the five-part video series are available in Hungarian here: https://24.hu/tag/visszapillanto-sorozat
> 1st episode (December 30, 2023): “The prison warden told me to look at this man, because there is noone like him anywhere else” – Tamás Urbán and the tattooed Butterfly
> 2nd episode (January 6, 2024): “Whoever does not take this shot is not a photojournalist” – The story of Ferenc Rédei’s unusual photo of socialist leader János Kádár
> 3rd episode (January 14, 2024): “Life is livelier, but also more extreme than in a more consolidated neighborhood” – the notorious 8th district, photographer György Stalter, and the Metal Christ standing on the corner
> 4th episode (January 20, 2024): “We don’t give a shit that we are in the middle of socialism, we still live our own lives” – Lenke Szilágyi and the cool girls of the regime change era
> 5th episode (January 27, 2024): “I’m such a nobody here in Budapest” – 10 years of Péter Korniss photographing a commuting physical worker from the countryside
reporter-editor
in cooperation with 24.hu news portal
The project was implemented as part of the Budapest 150 commemorative year, with the support of the Pro Cultura Urbis Public Foundation.
intensive photography workshop at the Pannonhalma Benedictine High School
mentor, 2021, 2022, 2024
together with András D. Hajdú and Sándor Ujvári; theatre course: Borbála Szabó, Fanni Fodor, Tímea Török; film course: Máté Kőrösi, Nyika Jancsó, Gábor Halla, Bálint Halla
https://www.phbences.hu/hirek/10b-muveszeti-kurzusanak-zaroeloadasa
Robert Capa. Conversation in Budapest (Robert Capa. Budapesti beszélgetés) book launch
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) December 15, 2023
in conversation with Éva Fisli, historian-museologist at the Historical Photographic Collection of the Hungarian National Museum, translator and editor of the volume
in cooperation with Open Books Publishing
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/robert-capa-budapesti-beszelgetes-konyvbemutato
Is it like this? The city in photos round table discussion with projection as part of the series Sounds of the City - Feelings and Interpretations on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Budapest
Ötpacsirta Szalon, Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library, Budapest (Hungary) November 24, 2023
with Gábor Csanádi sociologist and András S. Takács journalist, documentary filmmaker
moderator Júlia Sipos
https://fszek.hu/News/bgy-150eves-beszelgetessorozat
Guided tour in conversation with artist Imre Bukta and Nóra Winkler in the exhibition People of Petőfi Streets
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) September 21, 2023
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/bukta-imre-kepzomuvesz-es-winkler-nora-kozos-tarlatvezetese-a-petofi-utcak-nepe-kiallitasban
Old pictures, new stories – Slideshow and discussion with the authors of the three-year-old Weekly Fortepan blog about their most exciting articles
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) September 20, 2023
in conversation with Zsuzsanna Balázs, Ákos Bereczky, Judit N. Kósa, Miklós Tamási, András Török and Dávid Zubreczki
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/regi-kepek-uj-tortenetek-vetitett-kepes-beszelgetes-a-haromeves-heti-fortepan-blog-szerzoivel-legizgalmasabb-irasaik-kapcsan
Two conversations related to the People of Petőfi Streets exhibition
The Petőfi cult in the last two centuries – in conversation with Péter Csunderlik, historian, research fellow at the Institute of Political History, assistant professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Universal History (ELTE)
What influences have shaped rural life in Hungary in recent decades – in conversation with Imre Kovách, Rural and Settlement Sociologist, Head of the Social Integration and Inequalities Research Unit of the Social Science Research Centre of the ELKH
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) September 5, 2023
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/ket-beszelgetes-a-petofi-utcak-nepe-kiallitas-kapcsan
Photography is a wonderful medium to collect round table discussion
Sfinx Gin & Wine Bar, Budapest (Hungary) June 15, 2023
with artists Máté Dobokay, Anna Fabricius and galerist Tomas Opitz (TOBE)
moderator Nóra Winkler
Baedeker EXTRA – roundtable discussion with photojournalists who have been covering the war in Ukraine
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) December 13, 2022
in conversation with András D. Hajdú (NRK), István Huszti (Telex)
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/bedekker-extra-fotos-beszamolo-a-nagyvilagbol-ukrajnai-haboru
Favourite projects from the previous year for Capa Center’s blog in Hungarian
2020: https://blog.capacenter.hu/2021/01/04/2020-kedvencei-viragvolgyi-istvan
2019: https://blog.capacenter.hu/2020/01/11/2019-kedvencei-viragvolgyi-istvan
2018: https://blog.capacenter.hu/2019/01/08/mi-tortent-a-fotografiaban-2018-ban-viragvolgyi-istvan-kepszerkeszto-1
Pannonhalma Benedictine High School 80 portrait photography project
October 10, 2020
Pannonhalma Archabbey (Pannonhalma, Hungary)
advisor
Documentary premiere and conversation with photographer András D. Hajdú and oculist Dr. Richárd Hardi
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), July 29, 2020
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/szemtestver-filmpremier-es-beszelgetes
https://www.hda.hu/szemtestver
Portrait photograph of archabbot Dr. Asztrik Várszegi OSB by István Lábady
November, 2019
Pannonhalma Archabbey (Pannonhalma, Hungary)
advisor
Sharing Visions: Public talk with MAGNUM Photographers Bieke Depoorter & Peter van Agtmael
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), December 9, 2019
https://capacenter.hu/en/esemenyek/sharing-visions-bieke-depoorter-and-peter-van-agtmael-artist-talk
A Fortepanról pro és kontra (About the Fortepan archive, pros and cons) in Hungarian
essay
Punkt online photography magazine, September 11, 2019
https://punkt.hu/2019/09/11/a-fortepanrol-pro-es-kontra
A közösség erejét kihasználó kezdeményezések nagy híve vagyok (A believer in initiatives that harness the power of the community) in Hungarian
interview
ArtMagazin, volume 17, issue 3, 2019, p. 26-34.
6 photographs, 6 photojournalists, 60 minutes – female winners of the 37th Hungarian Press Photo Exhibition
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) April 25, 2019
in conversation with Orsolya Ajpek, Orsolya Boncsér, Sára Kölcsey, Sára Révai, Zsófia Sivák, Dzsenifer Varga
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/6-fenykep-6-noi-fotoriporter-60-percben
Copyright Day – round table talk about photographers’ copyrights, without getting lost in paragraph signs
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary) April 23, 2018
in conversation Szabolcs Barakonyi Szabolcs, Dr. Bea Bodrogi, András Éberling and Dr. Erzsébet Győri
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/szerzoi-jogok-napja-a-fotografusokat-erinto-jogokrol-nem-a-paragrafusjelekben-elveszve
CAPA VISA: Public Talk with MAGNUM Photographers Olivia Arthur & Rafal Milach
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), April 12, 2018
https://capacenter.hu/en/esemenyek/capa-visa-public-talk-with-olivia-arthur-rafal-milach
V4 PhotoNight panel discussion
moderator
FotoIstanbul Festival, Istanbul (Turkey), October 3, 2017
http://www.fotoistanbul.org/indexEN.html
http://v4.gov.hu/megnyilt-a-v4-elnokseg-isztambuli-programsorozata
What can we do against fake news? round table discussion and workshop
workshop co-leader with Márton Magócsi
Center for Independent Journalism – Budapest (Hungary), March 28, 2017
http://www.cij.hu
‘Perspective’ round table discussion series about documentary photography
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary)
on February 9, 2017 in conversation with Tamás Szlukovényi, András Bánkuti, Simon Móricz-Sabján and Tamás Szigeti
on November 29, 2016 in conversation with László Balogh , Bernadett Szabó, Gábor Fejér, Simon Móricz-Sabján and Ferenc Rédei
https://www.facebook.com/events/209311472873539
https://www.facebook.com/events/614602388746442
Korrekta workshop for photojournalists
workshop co-leader with László Beliczay, Balázs Czagány and István Fazekas
Székelyudvarhely, Odorheiu Secuiesc (Romania), October 28–30, 2016
https://www.facebook.com/KorrektaMediamuhely
Közösségben vagyunk: tíz mai történet fotókon (We are in community: ten contemporary stories through photographs) in Hungarian
MúzeumCafé 53., volume 10, issue 3, 2016, p. 38-41.
Can I believe my own eyes? workshop on the provenance check of images circulating on social media
workshop leader
Center for Independent Journalism – Budapest (Hungary), May 13, 2016
http://www.cij.hu
http://capacenter.hu/off-capa/vajon-tenyleg-hiszem-ha-latom
Can a press photo be objective? Especially if news around the globe is happening at the back of our gardens round table discussion
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), April 4, 2016
in ceonversation with István Fazekas, Botond Feledy, Ernő Simon, Levente Hernádi, Zsolt Reviczky
http://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/men-kerekasztal
Workshop with the Best Wire Photographer of 2014 – Bulent Kilic, the French News Agency AFP's senior photojournalist in Turkey
organizer
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), April 11-12, 2015
https://capacenter.hu/en/off-capa/workshop-with-the-best-wire-photographer-of-2014
Police pictured in the press round table discussion
participant
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), January 12, 2015
in conversation with Dr. László Bodolai, Dr. Márta Kiss, Dr. Attila Péterfalvi, Dr. László Székely, moderated by Gergő Sáling
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/rendorok-sajtofotokon
Hungarian emerging photographers showcased at the Capa Center
lecturer
3rd St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, contemporary art section, Rosphoto, Saint Petersburg (Russia), December 7, 2014
http://rosphoto.org/events/21556-2
https://culturalforum.ru
http://capacenter.hu/off-capa/iii-szentpetervari-nemzetkozi-kulturalis-forum
Danube Revisited – The Inge Morath Truck Project with Claire Martin and Olivia Arthur truck exhibition and round table discussion
host, moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), July 22-23, 2014
http://danuberevisited.com/itinerary
https://capacenter.hu/en/off-capa/join-danube-revisited-inge-morath-truck-project
https://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/podiumbeszelgetes
Similarities in the way photographers picture war – from the Crimean War to the present, through the eyes of Hungarian photographers: Rudolf Balogh, André Kertész, Tamás Konok, Robert Capa, István Bielik, Gyula Sopronyi, Balázs Gárdi and others
lecturer
WARM Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), June 29, 2014
http://www.warmfoundation.org/warm-festival-2014
http://capacenter.hu/en/off-capa/first-world-warm-festival
Drones in the press round table discussion
moderator
Capa Center, Budapest (Hungary), May 7, 2014
in conversation with Zoltán Schváb, András Farkas, Zoltán Székely, Zsolt Csillagvári and Attila Réz
http://capacenter.hu/esemenyek/dronok-sajtoban
Public interest in private matters? round table discussion
moderator on behalf of the Forum of Editors on the occasion of the introduction of the new Civil Code in Hungary
Mai Manó House of Hungarian Photographers, Budapest (Hungary), June 10, 2013
in conversation with Dr. László Székely, Dr. Attila Péterfalvi, Dr. Árpád Pataki, András Bánkúti, Attila Kisbenedek and Balázs Weyer
http://archiv.maimano.hu/esemenyek/20130610_kerekasztal/index.html
https://foszerkesztokforuma.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/az-uj-ptk-es-a-sajtofoto-kerekasztal-beszelgetes-junius-10-en
Aki át akar verni egy fotóval, az meg is fogja tenni (Anyone who wants to decieve you with a photo will do so) in Hungarian
interview with Tamás Szlukovényi
Origo, January 19, 2011
https://www.origo.hu/foto/20110119-interju-szlukovenyi-tamassal-a-reuters-korabbi-fotoigazgatojaval-a-magyar-sajtofoto.html