KMFT annual competition winners 2024

TWO OPENINGS ON THE DAY OF HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY

The “Matei Stegerean” Gallery of the EFA Exhibition Center in the Princely Palace of the Medieval Citadel of Oradea (Hall E, ground floor) hosted the opening of two international photographic art exhibitions dedicated to the Hungarian Photography Day. The exhibitions are organized by the International Association “Euro Foto Art” from Oradea (AIEFA) and Summit Agro Romania and the Hungarian Association of Photo Clubs (MAFOSZ), under the auspices of the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), recognized by UNESCO. The event was attended by the members of the two Romanian Photographic Organizations: Homorod, Oradea and Marghita, respectively Budapest, Debrecen and Szolnok (HU). The audience present at the event was welcomed by the photographer Ștefan Tóth István AFIAP AFIAP, ESFIAP, president of AIEFA and curator of the exhibitions, who presented the context in which the international photographic art exhibitions are organized. Then the representative of Dr. eng. Patricia Maria Știrbu president of Summit Agro Romania, Dr. ing. Dorin Popa, president of the Association for the Culture and Civilization of Wine Millesime Oradea emphasized in his speech the important role that photographic art plays in visual communication between people. The media specialist, Stanik Istvan Stanik, the technical director Magyar Házak Hálózat (Network of Hungarian Houses), the director of “Partium” House in Debrecen (HU) and the vice-president of Kárpát medencei Magyar Fotográfiai Társaság (Society of Hungarian Photographers in the Carpathian Basin (KMFT) after the greeting message of the president of “Kárpát-medence Intézet” (Carpathian Basin Institute) based in Seghedin (HU) Dr.. Szabó Pál Csaba, appreciated the initiative of organizing this exhibition on the Hungarian Photography Day, which presents the last year’s creations of Hungarian photographers from the Carpathian Basin. At the end of the first opening, the AIEFA President and KMFT Vice President presented the trophies to Fórián Andrea from Oradea, Hátszegi Csaba from Homorod (RO) and the “Carol Pop de Szathmári – Szathmári Pap Károly” plaque to the award-winning photographers Fórián Andrea from Oradea and Hátszegi Csaba from Homorod (RO), respectively, and the “Carol Pop de Szathmári – Szathmári Pap Károly” plaque to the photographer Tímár Zoltán from Marghita (RO). The exhibition of KMFT members includes 93 photographs by artists from Serbia, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine and Hungary. All works can be viewed on the AIEFA website: https://eurofotoart.ro/expozitia-anuala-a-membrilor-kmft/ 

The festivities continued with the opening of the exhibition entitled Annual of MAFOSZ (Magyar Fotóművészeti Alkotócsoportok Országos Szövetsége) Cross-border Organizations from Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, consisting of a selection of 45 photographs taken by photographers from the 9 MAFOSZ Cross-border Organizations from Slovakia, Romania and Hungary: International Association “Euro Foto Art” Oradea, Photoclub “F 10” Miercurea Ciuc (RO), Photoclub “Helios” Komárno (SK), Photoclub “Homorod” Homorod (RO), KMFT (HU), Photoclub “Marx József” Târgu Mureș (RO), Photoclub “Prisma” Miercurea Ciuc (RO), Photoclub “Vasile Vénig Vasile” Carei (RO) and Photoclub “Varadinum” Oradea (RO). The works can be admired on the AIEFA website: https://eurofotoart.ro/exhibition-annual-exhibition-of-partner-organizations-mafosz-beyond-the-granite-hu/ MAFOSZ President, photographer Horváth Imre EFIAPs emphasized in his speech the importance of this day celebrated since 2003, in memory of the first daguerreotype made at a public event on August 29, 1840 (at the eleventh general meeting of the Hungarian Society of Scientists). He then presented the presidents of the photographic organizations across the border each with a Foto Hungaricum album, respectively the MAFOSZ transmissible cup (for several hours) and the MAFOSZ plaque to the president of the Photoclub “Varadinum” from Oradea Ovi D. Pop EFIAPg, who in 2023 won the first place in the annual MAFOSZ competition. The openings were streamed online from facebook https://www.facebook. com/FIAPEPExhibitionCenterOradeaRomania/videos/448694744813435 The musical moments of the openings were provided by the violin artist Thurzó Sándor József, representative of the Community and Cultural Association Sola Fide (SFKKE), who performed several pieces from the Hungarian repertoire: Bartók Béla’s “Evening at the Szekler”, Macalik Alfréd’s “Menuetto”, Bartók Béla’s “Slovak Dance”, Eszlári Erzsébet’s “Aroso” and “Fugato” and the Piece, op. 64, nr. 1″ by Popper Dávid Dávid (arrangement for solo violin by the performer). The exhibited photographs will also be shown on the screens of the modern means of transportation in Oradea, thanks to the protocol between AIEFA and OTL SA.