Beyond the lens - old blog

Many of the participants have asked me, whether they can see the images made during the competition. I promised them to upload the pictures, the broadest selection possible - including funny ones not intended for publishing in Catalyzer :-)
So, I made a Flickr collection and this post to fulfil my promise.

If you have any questions, you can comment on this post without any registration procedure (comment anonymously), or write me an e-mail to golyagilicze@freemail.hu.
The text of this post and the range of pictures is likely to change in the next couple of weeks in response to your requests and comments, so it's worth coming back.
If you don't want to see all the funny stuff, visit the official IChO page where you can find a smaller subset of the pictures.

By the way, feel free to browse other posts of my blog, I'd like to share some of my other photos with you!
I hope you enjoyed the competition and your stay in Hungary!

In november 2004 Heti Válasz gave me the assignment to photograph the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Here are some images from Ungvár.
2004 novemberében a Heti Válasz megbízott, hogy készítsek képriportot az ukrajnai Narancsos Forradalom eseményeiről. Íme, pár kép Ungvárról.

His Magnum page here.

In March 2005 I spent a week in Lábnyik (Vladnic), a Csángó village in Moldavia accompanying some enthusiastic young people who decided to help preserving the knowledge of Hungarian language among the village youth. Csángós are of Hungarian origin (their name stems from a dialectic form of the word "migrate"), and their religion is Roman Chatolic in contrast with the neighbouring peoples living east of the Carpathians. They speak an archaic dialect of Hungarian, that, as said, resembles of the state of the language in the middle ages.
2005 márciusában egy hetet töltöttem egy Lábnyik (Vladnic) nevű moldvai csángó faluban, csatlakozva néhány lelkes fiatalhoz, akik célul tűzték ki a magyar nyelvtudás megőrzését a csángó ifjúság körében. A csángók magyar eredetű szigetet alkotnak a Kárpátokon túli románság között, vallásuk pedig római katolikus, ami szintén szokatlan a Kárpátoktól keletre. Érdekes, archaikus magyar nyelven beszélnek, mely, mint mondják, a középkori nyelvi állapotokat jeleníti meg.

Browsing through the photoblogs at the Open Directory, I found some real gems, which I share here.

There is the quite interesting and inspirational photoblog of Eric Cotter, called OcularStasis, after seeing his pictures it's time to get deFocused or immerse yourself in the exciting world of the F blog. Some cities definitely worth visiting. No doubt, Barcelona is among them. I spent there a week last year just clearing my thoughts, without a camera. Not like Carlos at Barcelona Photoblog.
I've always liked backcountry America (never been there), so I really enjoy this Pennsylvanian photoblog.
I like the colors and forms of "The Oswegan", and I think there is an important quote of his, which I hereby cite:
"There is, however, one theme that I try to keep consistent throughout my body of work, and that is the concept of "wabi-sabi". The idea that each thing, scene, or situation, has an essence, and no matter how imperfect, impermanent and incomplete it is, the beauty of that essence can be captured and shown. Thus, whenever I make an image, I try to think about the essence of what I am seeing, and how I might show it's beauty and simplicity."
An interesting film-style photoblog, the fiftymillimeter. Buildings, fisheye, whatever...   Darkness, faces, motion, grain, and darkness again - pushing primitives.
Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll here.
Nice BW images, it's a shame that the blog is discontinued: ACHROMATIC.
Candid BW shots at the strangely named 2038.cc and its sister minorshadows.net.
Creative, colorful, varied: citying.
Nice, painting-like pictures of Tim Gasperak with a pleasing old-school webdesign.
Professional kids photographing by Australian photographer Barb 'Jinky' Uil in painfully vibrant colors here and a blog here - I like it!
Welcome to The Snowsuit Effort - photographs of homeless people with quotes. Worths spending some time or more...
The Narrative. Simply browse it. Surprise will always be around somewhere...
Fine images with sophisticated post-processing at Chromasia.
"dailysnap is photography from jessyel ty gonzalez's life. he lives in denver, colorado with his wife and wiener dog"

Here are some of my friends. Click on the images to see their webpages. ||| Itt az ideje, hogy bemutassam pár barátomat. A képekre kattintva honlapok jönnek.

Luck stroke unexpected when a friend of mine (who has a now abandoned blog here) got a job in Norway and gave me his plane ticket to Paris (and back from Geneva). Everything was perfect. Accomodation at friends. And a nice travel-mate, Attila, a young architect, who (for the curious) now works here. That was the time I began to admire modern architecture. Thanks, Attila.

Here are some of my favourite cover pages made for Heti Válasz. This weekly uses mostly head shots and graphics on its covers.

From now on an Italian photoblog, bellefoto.fotoblog.it is publishing some of my pictures. It's an Italian language site, citing the work of many photographers from around the world. It's well worth visiting regularly.

Photos for the weekly Heti Válasz from the Critical Mass, Budapest, September 2005.