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| Photographer Tamas Dezso - Victor (near Geamana, Central Romania), 2011 |
Tamas Dezso (b. 1978, lives in Budapest) is a fine art documentary
photographer working on long-term projects focusing on the margins of
society in Hungary, Romania and in other parts of Eastern Europe. His
photographs have been published in TIME, The New York Times, National
Geographic, GEO, Le Monde Magazine, The Sunday Times, PDN, Ojo de Pez,
HotShoe Magazine, The British Journal of Photography and many others.
PROJECT NOTES FOR AN EPILOGUE (2011 - ongoing)
Spiritual tradition and physical
heritage are simultaneously disintegrating in Romania. Time is beginning
to undermine centuries-old traditions preserved in tiny villages, in
communities of only a few houses, as well as the bastions of the
communist era’s enforced industrialisation, which became part and parcel
of Romania’s recent history. Those living in the reservations of
forgetting blend with nature, exhibiting a humility inherited through
generations. Urged on by modernisation, they are living out their last
days in evident equality of closeness to nature and, helping time, they
are diligently pulling down the absurd edifices of their environment. In
the manner of termites, they carry away small pieces of immense
concrete constructions on the rickety carts of poverty, pick through
reinforced concrete frames of former factory monsters, power stations
and furnaces, dismantling monuments of formerly enforced modernisation
which have corroded into a stage set. One year ago, I began
photographing the scenes of a world irreversibly decaying, the
transformation of a Balkan country surviving the region’s hardest
dictatorship. When capturing the still recordable milieu I am examining
the parallel of a general tendency and personal stories: as resilient
humanity condensing into symbolic destinies takes shape in the face of
mortality.
