historical approaches
The Camera and Vernacular Postmemory in the Philippine Archipelago by Gaia Bernabe-Belvis Introduction The difficulty of tracing the chronology of vernacular photography in the Philippines is as disorienting as locating the physical images that …
Old vernacular photographs of nightlife and drinking by David Ford In the final essay in this series, David Ford looks at how developments in photography changed the way social lives were recorded. Silver gelatin …
A video essay From May to September, Eidolon presents a monthly film series at Cirko-Gejzír Cinema in Budapest, featuring works that have rarely, or never, been screened in Hungary. Each film explores everyday camera …
US Military Aerial Photography and the Fractured Family Archive by Jennifer Good Jennifer Good set out to trace the aerial reconnaissance photographs her grandfather made for the US Navy in World War II – …
Interview with artists Klara Källström and Thobias Fäldt on their recent Graz exhibition titledThe Space Between by Endre Cserna At Camera Austria’s gallery in Graz, the exhibition The Space Between by Klara Källström & …
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 …
by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee …
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 …
Interview with Jen Grasso and Marco Ferrari, founders of the Photobooth Technicians Project by Róza Tekla Szilágyi For nearly a century, analog photobooths have offered fleeting yet intimate moments of self-expression – now rapidly …
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 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 …
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 …
The boxes of family photos and threadbare hand-me-downs at the back of your closet have as much to say about the history of fashion as the fine antique gowns in museums and textbooks. by …
Interview with curator Diana Ghazaryan by Endre Cserna A recent Budapest exhibition, Capturing Eternity: Jerusalem Armenian Photography in the 19th and 20th Centuries, highlighted the pioneering work of Armenian photographers in Jerusalem. Curated by Ph.D. …
A video essay On October 24, during the 4th Eidolon Club event, we screened Pál Zolnay’s documentary drama Fotográfia at the Cirko-Gejzír cinema in Budapest, accompanied by a video essay created by us. Watch the video …
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 …
