All photography is propaganda.

Norge

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Fri, 29 May 2020 17:38:00 +0000

Electric Rendezvous

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:26:00 +0000

[gone]

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Wed, 01 May 2019 10:29:00 +0000

Thököly út

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:42:00 +0000

To be religious...

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:37:00 +0000

"...is always to be in some sense an adherent (even as a heretic) to a specific symbolism and a specific historical community, whatever the interpretation of these symbols and this historic community the believer may adopt."

-Susan Sontag

Approach

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:52:00 +0000

Bajvívó utca

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 19:28:00 +0000

Szagos Hörigekkók!

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:20:00 +0000

Wind

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:05:00 +0000

Post-Proposal Post

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 21:42:00 +0000

Workers in the snow

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:05:00 +0000

Bugatti

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 17:57:00 +0000

In Diane Arbus's world

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 19:56:00 +0000

"...everybody is an alien, hopelessly isolated, immobilized in mechanical, crippled identities and relationships." -Susan Sontag

Röszke

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 23:04:00 +0000

During the night from 10 to 11 September 1989, in a dramatic break-up with the Eastern European communist bloc, Hungary gave permission for thousands of East German refugees to leave Hungary for West Germany, via Austria. It was the first time that one of the Warsaw Pact nations broke from the practice of blocking citizens of another communist state from travelling to the West. It was the start of what became the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Iron Curtain dividing Europe. These pictures were taken on 14 September 2015 at the Hungarian-Serbian border - on the day when Hungary was closed behind an iron curtain again.

Darwin's paradox

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:41:00 +0000

We are shooting a 4K nature documentary about the Suakin Archipelago in Sudan with underwater cinematographer Zsolt Sásdi and photographer Daniel Selmeczi. We meet fishes. A lot of fishes.

Fetal Crying

noreply@blogger.com (Balazs Lerner) — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:30:00 +0000

Filmed in the Hopeless Sump in Kossuth Cave, Northern Hungary.
Divers: Balázs Lerner & Lászlo Dani
Music: Frédéric Chopin
(c) Rational Geographic 2015.

How to flood a GoPro

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:54:00 +0000

And we still believe this homemade flatport for Hero2 is better than many other ports on the market.

Acropolis

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:58:00 +0000

Swedes

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:51:00 +0000

The Wrecks of Stockholm

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:40:00 +0000

There are not too many capitals in the world where you can have a wreckdive in the city centre. Local divers in Stockholm say they have more wrecks in their waters than ships on the surface - and according to estimates every seventh citizen has a yacht or a boat. The most famous of all Stockholm wrecks is of course Vasa. The Swedish warship turned over and sank on her maiden voyage after sailing less than a mile in 1628. It was salvaged in 1961 and now can be admired in a museum. But the majority of Stockholm's wrecks are still under the waters of the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren.

Sinister clouds looming over Stockholm harbours.

The Vasa in her full glory on a historical painting.

A diver working on the newly found wreck (reconstructed scene at Vasa Museum).

Filip (as archeologists named him) died trying to turn the ship into the wind so that she could right herself. (He was around 30 but two of his front milk teeth remained in his lower jaw.)

The once vivid stern of Vasa

Divers preparing to visit a wreck in Alvik, Stockholm.

Tore, a Danish wooden cargo ship sank 20 years ago in Lake Mälaren.

Anna approaching the stern of Tore in nearly total darkness. The visibility in Lake Mälaren is not for the faint hearted.

The superstructure of Tore had seen shinier days.

A sponge living on Tore.

Anna from the wheelhouse.

Solea solea

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:56:00 +0000

The spatial memory and the hippocampus

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Thu, 31 May 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Ice diving

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Solaris

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:48:00 +0000

The Danube from the Chain Bridge, Budapest

Meanwhile in Weimar

noreply@blogger.com (simbabu) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:41:00 +0000

On 23/12/2011 Hungarian police broke up a demonstration by green liberal opposition MPs who chained themselves together outside parliament to protest against what they believe is a demolition of democracy. You can read more on the story and the background here and here.

A government MP driving up to the Hungarian Parliament facing a wall of protestors asking "You are not gonna betray democracy, are you?"

MPs and activists of LMP ("Politics Can Be Different") blocking the entrance of the Parliament's parking lot. On their signs: "ENOUGH!".

Policemen looking on as Hungarian poet and LMP MP Endre Kukorelly is serving hot tea to fellow protestors. (Sorry guys, I couldn't bring myself to blur your faces here.)

Katalin Ertsey of LMP showing her MP pass to the police.

An activist looking at policeman.

5 policemen trying to take away a protester.

Virág Kaufer (LMP) standing still while policemen are cutting her chain.

LMP MPs Benedek Jávor and Virág Kaufer during their detainment.

Former Hungarian PM Ferenc Gyurcsány being put into a police car.

MP Virág Kaufer looking at camera.

MP Benedek Jávor held by policemen.

MP Virág Kaufer looking at Hungarian Parliament from inside a police car.

Policeman looking at MP Virág Kaufer.