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Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance …
Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance …
Eidolon Club vol. 12: The People’s Pictures – Photoworks and Eidolon Centre celebrate all photographs vernacular Photoworks and Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography organised an afternoon of talks celebrating vernacular photography and the importance …
Snapshots of happiness from the 1960s and 1970s by David Ford In the second essay in this series, David Ford looks at personal snapshots of nightlife from the 1960s and 1970s. What happened when people …
Capturing a night out in the 1950s and 1960s by David Ford This is the first in a series of three essays exploring different aspects of vernacular photographs of nightlife. The images used in …
This new edition of Photography+ is dedicated to vernacular photography We’re pleased to share that Photoworks has released a new edition of its Photography+ online magazine, The People’s Pictures, with a dedicated focus on vernacular …
a visual essay by Laura Paloma In pet-cake-prank-revenge-train (2025), Laura Paloma reimagines the dataset behind the viral AI slop, Pet Cake Prank. [“AI slop” is an informal, pejorative term used to describe low-quality content …
By Benedek Farkas To mark this year’s Dwarfism Awareness Month (held annually in October), we present the work of Hungarian curator and researcher Benedek Farkas, recipient of last year’s Eidolon Grant, who began documenting the story …
by Pelin Aytemiz This essay by Pelin Aytemiz emerges from her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. As she writes, “Exploring different practices of photographing and representing the dead, my …
Interview with Martin WágnerCollectors & their collection vol. 9 by Diana Ghazaryan Martin Wágner (1980, Prague) is a Czech documentary photographer and collector recognized for his impressive photos of daily life in Eastern Europe, …
by Adbo Shanan As part of the Eidolon Grant, Algerian artist Abdo Shanan presents 'The Right to a Memory'—a multimedia project that reclaims everyday photographic practices as both personal and collective archives. Challenging the …
by Kelly Midori McCormick This essay by historian Kelly Midori McCormick is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Drawing on newly discovered archival materials, McCormick illuminates …
In this Hungarian-language (but efficiently English subtitled!) lecture, visual artist Viola Fátyol presents the overlooked and yet unsung photographic legacy of Mariska Travnik, whose intimate images of rural life of the 1910s offer a …
by Sándor Kardos Originally written for the current exhibition of the Horus Archives—on view at 2B Galéria in Budapest until 20 June 2025—the following essay, reflecting on the decalog by founder Sándor Kardos, is …
by Róza Tekla Szilágyi & Endre Cserna An interview with Kata Martincsák, project leader of Jelenarchívum—the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography’s new initiative: a community photo and story collection dedicated to preserving Hungarian family and …
Collectors & their collection vol. 8 by Júlia Alma Kerekes Bence Földvári Varga, also known as “Husi,” has a passion for old digital cameras, which has also evolved into his business practice. He travels …
In this article, you can read the editorial from our last newsletter of this year written by Eidolon-editor Róza Tekla Szilágyi, which was sent out on March 6, 2024. We publish our monthly editor's …
Interview with Hungarian director Róbert Lakatos about his short documentary, Land of Silence from 2002 by Endre Cserna Born with a hearing impairment, ten-year-old Alfi rediscovers his home village in Gyimes through the lens …
In the coming weeks, we release a weekly video from our talk event titled Talks on Everyday Imaging vol. 2: The Self-Centred and the Networked held on February 13–14, 2025, at The Photographers' Gallery, …
Interview with Caroline Furneaux London-based photographer and writer Caroline Furneaux’s recent photo-book, The Mothers I Might Have Had, is primarily interested in the identity and personal history of her father through his posthumously discovered …
