JURY
The awarding of the fellowships and the prize is decided by an independent jury of five renowned Hungarian and international professionals. The work of the jury is supported by a secretary who has no right to vote. The award judging process is completed through a series of private sessions conducted in English via online or in person. The submissions are not anonymized throughout the judging procedure. For each entry, the materials are assessed by two juries: when submitting the entry, the first jury chooses the three fellows, and in the next year, another jury selects the grand prize winner out of the three fellows. Thus, each jury selects three fellows from the entries submitted in the given year, as well as a grand prize winner out of the three fellows of the previous year.
The members of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary jury in 2022:
Photo: Mahala Nuuk
Laia Abril
artist (Barcelona, Spain)
Laia Abril (Spain, 1986) is a research-based artist working with photography, text and sound. After graduating in journalism and working as an editor at Colors Magazine, she focused on developing long-term projects on uneasy and hidden realities about women rights, grief and bio-politics. She is the author of several books: The Epilogue (2014, Dewi Lewis), Lobismuller (2016, RM) and On Abortion (2018 Dewi Lewis) – which was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Prize and the winner of the Aperture–Paris Photo Best Book Award. Her installations have been exhibited in more than 15 countries and are part of collections such as the Centre Pompidou, FRAC, Musée de l’Elysée, Fotomuseum Winterthur, MoCP or MNAC. Her career has been recognized with the Prix de la Photo in Arles, The Hood Medal in London and the FOAM Paul Huf Award in Amsterdam, among others. Abril’s next book On Rape will be published by Dewi Lewis in 2022. She is based in Barcelona and represented by the Parisian gallery Les Filles du Calvaire.
Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen (Denmark, 1978) has been managing director of Copenhagen Photo Festival since 2016 with a distinct emphasis on experimentation and sustainability, as well as a strong international focus and long term collaborations across Europe. She has worked with a large number of art and photography institutions, festivals and photographers and has been in charge of numerous photography-based projects with partners across the cultural field. She holds a MA from the University of Copenhagen and has worked in the culture industry for more than 15 years.
Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen
managing director of Copenhagen Photo Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Judit Gellér
photography curator, educator, writer, jury chair (Budapest, Hungary)
Judit Gellér (Hungary, 1983) publishes art critics and art reviews in various Hungarian journals since 2000. Between 2007 and 2017 she was a member of the Association of Hungarian Journalists; since 2017 she is a member of AICA Section Hungary. She has been awarded her Bachelor’s and Masters’ Degree of Design and Art Theory Expert at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art Design. Between 2012 and 2016 she was a member; between 2013 and 2015 she was a board member of the Studio of Young Photographers Hungary. She started her Ph.D. studies in 2013 in the Film, Media, and Contemporary Culture program at ELTE University; from 2014 she lectures about contemporary photography at the Photography Department of the Media Institute and she also held courses about Art Theory and Creative Writing at the PreMOME course between 2014–2021 both at Moholy-Nagy University of Art Design. Between 2015–2021 she was a curator at Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center. She was the founder and editor of the József Pécsi Photography Grant digital archive, and former member of the editorial board of the Review of Hungarian Photography. From 2022 she works as a contemporary curator at the MaDok-program of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. Her research fields are private photo collections, artistic uses of archives, and contemporary photography.
Felix Hoffmann (Germany, 1972) is an art historian and art theorist, and is currently head curator of the C/O Berlin Foundation, where he is responsible for exhibitions, programs and strategy. With passion, curiosity, and a talent for improvisation he has brought C/O Berlin from being an idealistic project to an internationally renowned institution characterized by his idea that photography and moving pictures will become the dominating medium of the existing visual strategies. He is the initiator of C/O Berlin’s Talents program for young photographers and art critics, and has acted as curator of numerous international exhibitions including Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh (2011), Gordon Parks (2014) or Araki (2018), and group shows like The Last Image. Photography and Death (2019) or The Uncanny Familiar: Images of Terror (2011). He has also published numerous books and texts.
Felix Hoffmann
chief curator at C/O Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
József Mélyi
art historian, art critic, curator, senior lecturer of the Art Theory Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
József Mélyi (Hungary, 1967) has been publishing essays and reviews in Hungarian journals since the mid-nineties. His main research areas are 20th century and contemporary art, public art and institutional critique. Between 2000 and 2003, he was editor-in-chief of the online art magazine Exindex. He is senior lecturer of the Art Theory Department at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. He has curated several exhibitions, including: Kempelen – Man in the Machine, 2007, Kunsthalle, Budapest and ZKM, Karlsruhe; Amerigo Tot – Parallel Constructions, 2009, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest; Blow-Ups, 1963 – The Age of Jancsó’s Cantata, 2016, New Budapest Gallery; Reconciliation, 2018, Pannonhalma Archabbey.
István Virágvölgyi studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing and photography and earned a master’s degree from library and information studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). He worked at the leading Hungarian news portal Origo first as photo editor and then as head of photography between 2007 and 2011 after which he joined MTI Hungarian News Agency as head of the photo desk. He also lectures about documentary photography and photo editing at the Budapest Metropolitan University. Since 2014 he works at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (Budapest, Hungary), he is the secretary of the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary . .
István Virágvölgyi
photo editor, curator, secretary of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary
