126 The Traveller Gazes, Moments, Destiny 2000-2019. Gábor travels around the world. Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, and Tibet; he captures it all in photographs. Developing in the darkroom, under fluorescent red light, dripping photos pinned with wooden clips to dry. Projection prints, the emergence of mysterious details, like in Antonioni’s film. The camera – Hasselblad or Leica –, the Fortepan 100 monochrome film, and shutter speed are all critical. Landscapes, gazes, stories told in moments frozen forever. Cameras are continuously changing and evolving; the analog is slowly disappearing; even digital cameras are a rare sight today. 12-megapixel images can be taken with mobile phones. Almost everyone is a photographer these days. Image sharing, Instagram, default filters, automatic image enhancement software, and photo manipulation apps. Selfies, selfie accidents, photobombs. Humanity has never before captured so many good and bad or simply mediocre moments with phones pulled out of pockets. In Gábor’s travel pictures, however, it is not only the observed moment that becomes a monument of its own: he can see the essence of the character, and then he further manipulates the image: he multiplies, recolors, uses all the effects that current state-of-the-art technology has to offer… But the gist of it all, the story, told through the human gaze, remains.
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