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Portraiture emerged as one of the most prominent genres of depictive media early in the history of the visual arts; tacit or explicit rules, conventions and cultural expectations have always influenced the ways in which artists approached the genre. Photography is no exception. Numerous different and characteristic styles of portraiture emerged throughout the history of the medium. We usually assume that faces are necessary components of portraiture; we may, however, learn just as much about the character, the personality of a person by looking at images that depict other parts of their bodies, show us the objects or places associated with them. Not focusing on the face may open up a new dimension of interpretation. Our Portraits Without Faces exhibition is dedicated to this challenging divergence from the more conventional approaches to the genre.

 

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Curator's choice

Julie Mihaly: Woman on Raft in Pool

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Honourable mentions

Brian Cann: The Wheat Field

Michal Krzyszkowski: Nails

Roman Martynenko: Isolation

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Exhibiting photographers

Elena Aldea (Brasov, Romania), Marea Atkinson (Adelaide, SA, Australia), Robert Atwater (Hampto Bays, NY, USA), Elizabeth Bailey (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Filipe Bianchi (Lisboa, Portugal), Vanessa Brici (Senftenberg, Germany), Thomas G. Bugarin (New York, NY, USA), Brian Cann (Waldenbuch, Germany), David Chernobilsky (Herzliya, Israel), Paul Delpani (Vienna, Austria), Ekaterina Denisova (Moscow, Russian Federation), Laurie Toby Edison (San Francisco, CA, USA), Sophia Elizabeth (Canberra, Australia), Matthew Farnham (Brisbane, QLD, Australia), Ritha Fellerman (Bulverde, TX, USA), Alice Fevereiro (Estoril, Portugal), Florin Ion Firimita (New York, NY, USA), Colleen Fitzgerald (Shrewsbury, MA, USA), Roger Gaess (Brussels, Belgium), Laurent Girard (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Jerry Grasso (Bristol, CT, USA), Noga Greenberg (Jerusalem, Israel), Cheryl L. Guerrero (San Francisco, CA, USA), Lingxue Hao (Glendale, CA, USA), Kip Harris (Indian Harbour, Canada), Anna Hartman Ksycinska (Rzeszów, Poland), Shan He (Bamberg, Germany), László Hegedűs 2 (Csákberény, Hungary), Leena Holmström (Oulu, Finland), Olegs Korsaks (Riga, Latvia), John Kosmer (Fly Creek, NY, USA), Inbal Kristin (Ashkelon, Israel), Aahron Kritzer (Jerusalem, Israel), Michal Krzyszkowski (Warsaw, Poland), Doris Kundratitz (Innsbruck, Austria), Ethan Lassey (Somerville, MA, USA), Grace Lawson (Houston, TX, USA), Vincent Leandro (Talent, OR, USA), Stefanie Lebowski (Paris, France), Catherine LeComte (Burlington, MA, USA), Gene Lee (San Francisco, CA, USA), Gavin Libotte (Sydney, Australia), Richard Luxton (Bristol, UK), Roman Martynenko (Dunlap, CA, USA), Andy Mattern (Stillwater, OK, USA), Julie Mihaly (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA), Jose Ney Mila Espinosa (Kissimmee, FL, USA), Victoria Nguyen (Houston, TX, USA), Joseph O’Neill (New York, NY, USA), Robert Oehl (Hudson, NY, USA), Ann Prochilo (Swieqi, Malta and San Francisco, CA, USA), Brent Reaney (Hamilton, Canada), Michael Camilo Saari (Bloomington, IN, USA), Karen Safer (Playa del Rey, CA, USA), Amanda Schilling (Houston, TX, USA), Carl Shubs (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Dina Sirat (Netanya, Israel), Kicca Tommasi (Cimino, Italy), Leanne Trivett S. (Johnson City, TN, USA), Nic Umbs (Waukesha, WI, USA), Leonie van der Helm (Leiden, Netherlands), Eddy Verloes (Boutersem, Belgium), Fiora Watts (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Eiji Yamamoto (Saarbruecken, Germany), Root Yarden (Upper Galilee, Israel), Jagoda Zwiernik (Edinburgh, UK)

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This exhibition is part of the official program of the Hungarian Month of Photography.

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