European Kinship • Guided tour & British Journal of Photography launch

Guided tour by the Hungarian artists featured in the 'European Kinship' exhibition about the works exhibited and the recently published British Journal of Photography, a special extension of the project presented at the Capa Center.

Date: 11 March 2025, Tuesday, 6PM
Venue: Capa Center 1st floor (1065 Budapest, Nagymező utca 8.)
The event is available with a “contemporary guided tour” ticket, which can be purchased on-site.
The March issue of the British Journal of Photography can be purchased at the Capa Center ticket counter (HUF 6000).

How can Eastern Europeanism be defined? What is it that is distinctively its own, that binds the peoples who live here and share a common history and geography? Or what and how does all this become one in Euro-ness? What are the trends towards deeper European integration and more international cooperation? And how do they affect artistic-photographic practices dealing with the world around us, its phenomena, its effects, and the related feelings and problems? The six-chapter exhibition ‘European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective’ reflects on European identity through the work of Polish and Hungarian photographers, exploring contemporary experiences from a specifically regional point of view.

As part of the show at the Capa Center the most influential and longest-established publication on the international photography scene (circa. 1854), the British Journal of Photography has published a special issue entitled ‘European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective’, which will be available in nearly 6000 locations in photography institutions and bookshops worldwide from March 2025. The new issue of BJP is a double-cover edition produced in collaboration with the Capa Center and the Adam Miczkiewicz Institute. The magazine features all the Polish and Hungarian artists included in the exhibition (Szabolcs BARAKONYI, Anita HORVÁTH, Katerina KOUZMITCHEVA, PICTORIAL COLLECTIVE, Agnieszka SEJUD, Zsuzsi SIMON, SPUTNIK PHOTOS, Júlia STANDOVÁR, Éva SZOMBAT, Ilona SZWARC, Karolina WOJTAS, Ada ZIELIŃSKA) and the Ukrainian-Polish artist Lia DOSTLIEVA. In addition, an interview with the curators of the ‘European Kinship’ exhibition (Wiktoria MICHALKIEWICZ & Emese MUCSI); and a summary of the brief history and current state of the Polish and Hungarian photographic scene. Alongside the artists and curators, the special issue was produced with the contribution of members of the BJP editorial team (Diane SMYTH, Mick MOORE, Izabela RADWANSKA ZHANG); and Catherine Troiano (curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, London) and Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska (director, Museum of Warsaw, Warsaw) as experts on the subject.