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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Interview with Barbara LevineCollectors & their collection vol. 7 by Róza Tekla Szilágyi Vernacular and everyday photography is safekept because of a very dedicated group of people who turned their curiosity and interest into …
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by Xenia Nikolskaya There is a basement in every Stockholm building, where we store stuff we don’t need daily, like a bike, summer furniture, or a folded bed, in case of unexpected guests. Once …
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Interview with experimental filmmaker Péter Lichter by Dorottya Balkó The powerful, uncanny visuality of damaged, half-decayed frames building up Péter Lichter’s films might be familiar to many of us. As a director of captivating …
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In this article, you can read the editorial from our latest newsletter written by Eidolon-director Róza Tekla Szilágyi, which were sent out on September 12th, 2024. We publish our monthly editor's letters, in which …
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Interview with Tihomir Stoyanov,founder of the Bulgarian Visual ArchiveCollectors & their collection vol. 6 by Endre Cserna Started by Tihomir Stoyanov and Johanna Trayanova in 2019, the main mission of the Bulgarian Visual Archive (BVA) is to digitally preserve …
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Interview with researcher and writer Melissa Nolas, the co-founder and director of the Children’s Photography Archive by Endre Cserna Melissa Nolas, a visual sociologist, is the Director of the Childhood Publics Research Programme and the Children’s Photography …
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by Dorottya Balkó The tradition of sitting down together to flip through photographs has been slowly fading aways with the rising number of snapshots taken with smartphones and immediately shared on social media. However, …
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Wolves, white bears and memories In this article, you can read the editorial from our latest newsletter written by Eidolon-director Róza Tekla Szilágyi, which were sent out on June 4th, 2024. We publish our …
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Interview with Núria F. Rius, curator of the exhibition titled The domestic camera. Amateur photography in Catalonia (ca. 1880-1936) by Róza Tekla Szilágyi The exhibition on view in Barcelona reviews the phenomenon of amateur …
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Interview with the team behindthe online-based 20th century Jewish photo archive,J Photo ArchiveCollectors & their collection vol. 2. by Endre Cserna The J Photo Archive is a platform committed to preserving the photographic heritage …
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by Dorottya Balkó With the passing decades, the changes in memory politics require us to constantly reflect back on and contextualise certain parts of our national history. The photograph functioning as a kind of …

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