SUBJECTIVE STREET PHOTO ALBUM
Ritter Doron is a photographer, cinematographer, but above all an artist who has been involved in image creation for nearly thirty years, as a permanent portrait photographer of many famous public figures. The genre of portraiture is his true love, in which – as he says – he mainly wants to show things about people that are not necessarily known to the outside world, or even new to them.
He took this perspective with him when he walked the streets of Budapest to rediscover his true love of photography, which had been worn out in the rush of everyday life, and at the same time his beloved city. The shots taken on these walks ultimately made up this photo album, which contains everything that we know about the capital, but not necessarily in the way we know it. So this is all of us, but first and foremost Ritter Doron’s Budapest.
From the introduction by curator Klára Szarka, photo historian
“Doron Ritter is not looking for what the world wants to show as important. He does not follow the official course of events. He takes a completely different path when he sets out with his camera in the more well-known or more hidden corners of Budapest. He notices how the meeting of firewalls and dirt patches create strange patterns that go beyond their own meaning, how a bicycle hides in the thicket of the vinegar tree, how he sees and records the simultaneously playful and threatening swirls of the Danube. And of course, his images include the city’s inhabitants and the signs they leave on the streets. The signs.”
15 Dec 2024.
Photos: ATIBOLDOG
My Budapest / Az én Budapestem
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