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Gabor Szilasi: Signs of the Times
TALKING PICTURES returns with a new interview (following a short hiatus while we moved house…)
Gabor Szilasi was twenty-eight when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to suppress the Hungarian Uprising. An aspiring photographer, he documented the actions of ordinary people in their attempt to frustrate the advancing army. Seven years earlier, he had been imprisoned and subsequently blacklisted following an attempt to flee the country as it fell into the grip of the communist regime. This time, as the nascent revolution was brutally crushed, he successfully escaped, subsequently migrating to Canada and settling in Montreal. It was in this city that he built his life and his reputation. His photographs are remarkable not only for their grace and visual eloquence, but for their cumulative social and historical insights spanning seven decades.
Now in his ninety-sixth year, Gabor Szilasi looks back over a lifetime of photographic moments in his interview with Talking Pictures.
talking-pictures.net.au/2023/10/21/gabor-szilasi-signs-of...
Gabor Szilasi: Signs of the Times
TALKING PICTURES returns with a new interview (following a short hiatus while we moved house…)
Gabor Szilasi was twenty-eight when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to suppress the Hungarian Uprising. An aspiring photographer, he documented the actions of ordinary people in their attempt to frustrate the advancing army. Seven years earlier, he had been imprisoned and subsequently blacklisted following an attempt to flee the country as it fell into the grip of the communist regime. This time, as the nascent revolution was brutally crushed, he successfully escaped, subsequently migrating to Canada and settling in Montreal. It was in this city that he built his life and his reputation. His photographs are remarkable not only for their grace and visual eloquence, but for their cumulative social and historical insights spanning seven decades.
Now in his ninety-sixth year, Gabor Szilasi looks back over a lifetime of photographic moments in his interview with Talking Pictures.
talking-pictures.net.au/2023/10/21/gabor-szilasi-signs-of...