Following the initial selection by a committee of international experts, the jury decided on the winners from among the portfolios of 18 French and Hungarian photo artists.

The prizes will be handed out at the opening of the prize-winning works on November 16, 2010 at the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris, under the auspices of the local month of photography: the „Mois de la Photo”.

This international prize, announced for the fourth time, aims at promoting the introduction of young photographers and strengthening photography's foothold in the sphere of culture, with special reagrd to the link between photography and architecture.

The mood of the buildings appearing in the pictures of Czigány's series míght be familiar to us all, yet the rigorous edition and concentrated composition draws attention to something very different, making use of the emptiness filled with light, albeit embraced by the buildings that are part of our lives. In the given aperture another aperture appears, leading us to new directions. Light has basically some metaphysical content for Ákos Czigány, a content in which emptiness and overwhelming are simultaneously present.

Viewing his pictures from the content aspect, we awe awestruck by the exceptional elegance yet stubborn consistence with which Czigány builds the visual world of archtitectural environment. His recent works take the viewer to a mystical world lined with light. Regardless of the prize, his series „Skies” is one of his best projects of the last few years.

Ákos Czigány's earlier works were exhibited under the title „Trió” in Spring 2010 at Nessim Gallery, introduced to the public of Budapest together with Anikó Robitz."

Source: Nessim Galéria

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