Eyewitness - Hungarian Photography

Financial Times“Presents fine works, known and less so...” The catalogue contains one suggestion: that Hungarians, speaking as they do a language that no one else speaks, fell upon the camera with relish as being transnational and multilingual...

The Arts Desk“Staggeringly accomplished...” Eyewitness is an expertly paced compilation of 200 images. These were photographers who transformed the scenes they witnessed – the method matters less than the eye behind the camera – into images which distill the intricacies of human lives...

Time Out“Multifarious, thrilling exhibition...” For a war-torn patch of ground that lost its autonomy and its land (over 70 per cent of it, after World War I), Hungary has considerable artistic weight...

The Observer“A revelation from beginning to end...” It would be hard to overstate the visual impact of the Royal Academy show. Two hundred and more images by several dozen photographers, all the way from swaying cornfields to Bauhaus architecture...

this is london“Unmissable...” The real attraction is the unfamiliar photographers who stayed behind and produced astonishingly original work, often under state control...

The Independent“A dazzling amount of drama and movement...” We can see how much images create a culture as much as they reflect it, it's possible to see that these photographers were creating history at the very moments that they captured it on film...