JURY
The awarding of the fellowships and the prize is decided by an independent jury of six 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 private.
The members of the Capa Grand Prize Hungary jury in 2015:
Attila Horányi
President of the jury, art historian, aesthete, associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Attila Horányi is the director of the BA program in Art and Design Theory at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. He has an MA in Art History and a PhD in Aesthetics, both from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Dr. Horányi was a Fulbright scholar at the Cultural Anthropology Department at Northwestern University. He was a fellow and later board member of the Civic Education Project, and received the Kállai Grant for three years. He is the recipient of the prestigious Németh Lajos Prize (given to art historians and art critics) and for one of his book reviews he received the Opus Mirabile Prize awarded by the Art Historian Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been the member of numerous boards, the most notable of which was the Photography Board of the National Cultural Fund, which he also led for two years. Dr. Horányi frequently organizes conferences in art history, theory of photography and visual culture. His areas of research include modernist art and art theory, design theory, and the philosophy and history of art history. He is also completing a monograph on the autonomy of art, and a collection of published and unpublished essays.
Born and lives in Vienna, Austria. Artist, curator, founder and director of the photographer’s representation AnzenbergerAgency, Vienna (since 1989) and owner of the AnzenbergerGallery and bookshop (since 2002) and (since 2011). Director of the ViennaPhotoBookFestival. Member of the Nominating Committee of the Joop Swart Masterclass and the Prix Pictet. Curator of many international exhibitions and editor of books like 22 Photographers (Edition Stemmle, 1997), Austrian Documentary Photography and Ferdinand Schmutzer – A Photographic Discovery (Photographers International Taiwan 1999 and 2004), east (moser Verlag 2008), west (Kehrer Verlag 2009), Ferdinand Schmutzer – Photographic Works 1894-1928 (moser Verlag 2008). Her own artistic works includes publications like “Philodendron” (exhibition catalogue with paintings, drawings and bw photographs, 2006), and books like All about Golf, The Dog Shakeera (AnzenbergerGallery 2010) and My Golf Diary (AnzenbergerGallery 2011). In 2012 she has presented her new series “Extended“ and in 2014 her work “Bond“ (mixed media of photography, ink and found objects).
Regina Anzenberger
owner and director of Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Péter Korniss
Kossuth Prize-winning photographer
Born in Kolozsvár (Cluj [today Cluj-Napoca], Romania) on August 4, 1937. He has been living in Budapest since 1949.
He has worked as photojournalist for the Hungarian press as well as for international magazines, including National Geographic, GEO Magazine, Fortune, Time, and Forbes.
He has published twenty one books.
As a documentary photographer, he has spent more than forty years recording the disappearing peasant way of life and culture. From the end of the 1970s, he followed the life of a commuter laborer with his camera for eight years. The books he published in these decades include Heaven’s Bridegroom (1975), Passing Times (1979), The Guest Worker (1988), Inventory – Images of Transylvania (1998), and Attachment (2008).
His pictures can be found in the following collections: Hungarian Museum of Photography (Kecskemét, Hungary), Musée Nicephore Niépce (France), National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (England).
He was a member of the International Advisory Boards of the World Press Photo (Amsterdam) and the W. Eugene Smith Foundation (USA). He has been a founding member of Sony World Photographic Academy (UK) since 2007.
Exhibitions of his photographs have been shown at various galleries and museums in sixteen countries.
He was awarded the Balázs Béla Prize in 1975, the Kossuth Prize in 1999, the Prima Primissima Prima Prize and the Pulitzer Memorial Prize in 2004. In 2014, he was awarded for his lifetime achievement by the Czech Press Photo in Prague.
Dimitri Beck, French journalist, is the editor-in-chief of the Paris-based photography magazine, Polka. Dimitri has been part of the executive management of Polka since 2008, contributing to the development of the magazine, gallery and website, including the magazine’s new feature-rich iPad version. Dimitri lectures on photojournalism at conferences and educational institutes. Prior to working at Polka, from 2004 till end of 2006, he was the Director of the Aina Photo Agency based in the Afghan capital Kabul and the editor-in-chief for the Anglo-French feature magazine Les Nouvelles de Kaboul – New Afghanistan. Before that he was the editor-in-chief of Reza’s photo agency Webistan. Dimitri started working as a freelance journalist abroad and regularly across Central Asia and Caucasus Mountains.
Dimitri Beck
editor-in-chief at Polka magazine
Monika Perenyei
art historian, Institute of Art History of the Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2007 to 2010: ELTE, Doctoral Program in Film, Media and Culture Theory, dissertation topic: photographic panel paintings in the context of cultural practices using photography
2013. 2013: MODEM, Debrecen: Still – curator of the international exhibition Photography in the Museum
2012. 2012: Publication of the bilingual (English and Hungarian) book The Media are with Us, based on research at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaújváros, Hungary and on interviews with artists
2002-2006. 2002-2006: Art director at Vadnai Galéria, Budapest
2007-2009. 2007-2009.: Kállai Ernő Fellowship for Art Historians and Art Critics
from 2007: Fellowship for Young Researchers by the Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
from 2009: staff member at the Psychiatric Art Collection, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, director of the collection since 2012
She is published in specialized magazines.
Her field of research:
- artistic use of photographs in the context of cultural practices applying photography
- artists’ practices applying technical media
- photomontage, montage
- the social history of photography
- the representation of art in Hungarian feature films
- the social history of Hungarian mental health care through visuality, pictorial tradition in art history and the medical use of technical images
Clare Grafik is Chief Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. She earned a BA Joint Honors in Philosophy/Art History at Leeds University, and MA in Image and Communications (Photography) at Goldsmiths College. She has worked in a number of public institutions in London including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery and National Portrait Gallery. She has been at The Photographers’ Gallery since 2003 working in public programming and curating exhibitions. She has worked on exhibitions and projects with artists and photographers including Lise Sarfati, Isa Genzken, Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel, Taryn Simon, Katy Grannan, Antoine D’Agata, Cuny Janssen, Zineb Sedira and Keith Arnatt. Group exhibitions include The Photographic Object (2009) and Photography & Collage (2012). She has been a Sessional Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London, has lectured at institutions including University of the Arts, University of South Wales, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and written for magazines including IANN and Art Monthly.
Clare Grafik
head of exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery
István Virágvölgyi
photo editor, curator, deputy director for professional affairs, Capa Center
István Virágvölgyi studied freehand drawing, desktop publishing and photography and earned a master’s degree from library and information studies at Eötvös Loránd University. He worked at Origo news portal first as photo editor and then as head of photography between 2007 and 2011 after which he joined MTI Hungarian News Agency and was the head of the photo desk until 2014. He served as deputy director for professional affairs at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center until the end of 2015. He is the secretary of the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary.
