The opening trio of exhibitions features works by Emile Zola (1840-1902), Nora Dumas (1890-1979), and Mathias Depardon (b. 1980), all accessible from late Wednesday afternoon.

Peter Baki, director of Mai Mano House, announced that the museum will celebrate the bicentenary of Joseph Nicephore Niepce's invention with a full season of events starting this month.

The 13 exhibitions will trace the history of photography, showcasing the past and present of French photography through classical and contemporary artists until September 2027.

Matthieu Berton, director of the French Institute in Budapest, revealed that the Two Centuries of French Light series will include 26 exhibitions, lectures, symposia, and conferences across Hungary, with events at Mai Mano House, the Hungarian National Museum, the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre, and the Kiscelli Museum, as well as programmes in Veszprem and Fehervarcsurgo.

Emile Zola's foray into photography takes centre stage in Zola the Photographer. Curator Matthieu Rivallin noted that the writer began taking photographs at 48, setting up his own darkroom, developing his images, and producing over 2,000 glass plate negatives in his later years.

Meanwhile, A Humanist Gaze: Rediscovering Nora Dumas shines a light on the Hungarian-born photographer, who remains largely unknown in her homeland despite her work alongside 1930s Parisian legends like Andre Kertesz and Brassai. Curator Gyorgy Nemeth explained that Dumas, born Nora Telkes, settled in Moisson near Paris in the 1920s, where she captured rural life, studio portraits, and nudes, while maintaining ties with Hungarian emigre photographers such as Ergy Landau and Ylla.

The third opening exhibition, Transanatolia by Mathias Depardon, explores Turkiye's evolving identity through its social, geographical, and cultural borderlands. Depardon spent five years documenting the region's peripheral areas, where modernisation, historical memory, and power dynamics intersect.

The exhibition, curated by Anna Kereszty, will be on display in the ProjectLab Gallery.

All three exhibitions run until Oct 25.

Later in the season, Mai Mano House will also feature works by Rene Maltete, Jeanloup Sieff, Brassai, Kertesz, and Janine Niepce, as well as the group exhibition Hexagon.

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Source: MTI – Hungary’s national news agency since 1881.

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