Detail from the series Damaged Pages
2022
digital capture; archival pigment print
60 × 90 cm / each
The protagonists of the series Damaged Pages are books that once belonged to the library housed in the Postal Palace building at Széll Kálmán Square and were damaged during wartime shelling.
photo: Hajdú József
Detail from the series Damaged Pages
2022
digital capture; archival pigment print
60 × 90 cm / each
The protagonists of the series Damaged Pages are books that once belonged to the library housed in the Postal Palace building at Széll Kálmán Square and were damaged during wartime shelling.
photo: Hajdú József
József Hajdú
(1961, Ormosbánya)
József Hajdú graduated from a technical college and worked as a chemist before changing his profession. He started out as a photographer at a design institution, and then became the photo-archivist at the Postal Museum. He has been a member of the Studio of Young Photographers since 1987. His first book (Industrial Land, 1998) documented Budapest’s derelict factory buildings. He received the József Pécsi Scholarship in 1993 and the Rudolf Balogh Award in 2007. He won the main prize of the 7th Polaroid Final Art Awards in 1998. His pictures can be found in the collection of the Hungarian Museum of Photography and in several important private collections abroad.