People's Daily Online, Budapest, December 15 (Reporter Yu Limin) On December 14, local time, the "China Story" lecture series "China in the Eyes of Hungarian Photographers" was successfully held at the Robert Capa Center for Contemporary Photography in Budapest.
The event was co-sponsored by the Chinese Cultural Center in Budapest, the Hungarian Photographers Association, the Robert Kappa Center for Contemporary Photography and the Wake International Culture, Art and Sports Association, and more than 80 people attended the event, including members of the Hungarian Photography Association, Hungarian photography enthusiasts, and Chinese culture enthusiasts. Jin Hao, Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Budapest, attended and delivered a speech.
Discussion with guests at the sharing session. Photo by People's Daily reporter Yu Limin.
The chairman of the Hungarian Chinese Exchange Center, Cserksz Gábor, served as the moderator and sat down with seven photographers to share what they saw, heard and thought when they were collecting in China in September this year. The photographers used their lenses to record the beautiful natural scenery, cultural landscapes and intangible cultural heritage skills of Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou, capturing the unforgettable time and the development of modern China. The sharing session was set up in two sections, "First Encounter with China" and "Encounter China Again", which intuitively showed the Chinese style through photographic works from the perspective of local photographers, combined photography art with cultural experience, and vividly told the Chinese stories of Hungarian photographers.
Jin Hao, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Budapest, expressed his gratitude to the photographers and the audience who attended the event. He hopes that through this sharing session, more people can understand China, shorten the distance between the Chinese and Hungarian people, and convey friendship through artistic exchanges.
Hamarits Zsolt, president of the Hungarian Photographers Association, said that this was his first visit to China, and through this shooting, he saw the face of China in the new era, where tradition and modernity coexist. He stressed that China not only contains profound cultural heritage, but also is full of youth and vitality, and the kind Chinese people are kind and friendly, and those exquisite crafts and tempting food make him remember vividly. He also thanked the China Cultural Center in Budapest for providing the opportunity for Hungarian photographers to experience the charm of China in the new era.
China's development is changing with each passing day, and the pace of modernization is fast. Szamódy Zsolt, the former president of the Hungarian Photographers Association who came to China again, was deeply impressed by China's fast and convenient mobile payments, well-organized city traffic, and enthusiastic and cheerful square dance crowds. He said that photography is a window to the world, "When walking through the streets and alleys, I realized the connotation of Chinese culture, the changes of the times and the pace of progress. ”
This is the first time photographer Gao Yaoxi Geisa has visited China, and he has been surprised and shocked when he came to Suzhou since he was a child, and the quaint Jiangnan gardens and towering high-rise buildings coexist in harmony in the city. When he saw the well-preserved ancient buildings, he was very excited: "Every door, window, and flower in these garden buildings is a natural beauty, and history and culture are integrated into it, and we have all become a part of nature." This trip made him deeply feel the Chinese wisdom of "the unity of heaven and man".
The "China in the Eyes of Hungarian Photographers" lecture is the first lecture in the "China Story" series of lectures at the China Cultural Center in Budapest. In September this year, with the strong support of the center, a team of Hungarian photographers went to China to collect style and create a series of excellent photographic works. It is expected that next year, the results of this collection of photographs will be presented to the Hungarian people in the "Silk Road Mirror" photo exhibition.