Tamás Schild's photostream  

view my website at www.schildtamas.hu

Based in Budapest, Hungary.

Winner of the PressPhoto competition in the Art category.
(Hommage à Van Gogh – 2008, Budapest)
PressPhooto 2010 - portrait series: second place
Award winner of various other competitions, IPA - Lucie Award Honorary Metions,
Getty Images contributor.
Miscellaneous publications.

Work has been exhibited inter alia by:

National Geographic 2010
National Museum in Budapest 2009, 2011
Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Human Rights, - Human Dignity Without Borders
European Commission, Brussels (solo exhibition 2009: Windows – of opportunity for self reflection)


Current exhibition: Hilton Brussels: Jan - March 2011

Kolta Galéria, Budapest – on roma ( March 2011)
As well as in my home town in Baranya, Hungary – portraits of locals (feb. 2011)
European Parliament – Eurochild – May, 2011 – on child poverty
European Economic and Social Committee, Bruxelles, Belgium – on exclusion 2011, June

Jean Monnet Conference Centre, Luxembourg, July - September 2011: La Condition Humaine

Next Exhibition: Warsaw, Poland, May 8 2012



Artistic Statements

"Art is not depiction, but radiation. But only those may percieve and comprehend that very radiation who carry inherently that mystical receiver, more sensitive than any membrane which detects and transfers art into and within the soul of the viewer, listener or reader.

The vast majority of people is less sensitive to art than animals.
"It looks just like it!" or "Got it right!" - they'll say. Or even: "’Describes it as if it had happened to me!"

Close your eyes. Pour lead into your ears. Remain quiet. Keep working. Do not expect anything of them. They just do not have the tool to make out what you're getting at, or at least are attempting to."

Sandor Márai, XXth century Hungarian novelist

„Do not crave for what they generally call fame or immortality, for you will not gain anything thereby if after your death your memory is preserved by generations to come. What great people call immortality is not eternity and not even perpetual memorability, but oblivion postponed by just a few hundred or a few thousand years"
Sándor Weöres, XX century Hungarian poet
„It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. …All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt” Susan Sontag
"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." —Richard Avedon

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
-Elliott Erwitt


"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything."
-Aaron Siskind
''Ne kivánd azt, amit általában örök hírnévnek, halhatatlanságnak
neveznek: mert semmit sem érsz vele, ha emléked holtod után is
megmarad a jövő nemzedékek emlékezetében. Amit a nagy emberek halhatatlanságának mondanak, nem örök élet, még csak nem is örök emlékezetesség, hanem pár-száz vagy pár- ezer évvel későbbre halasztódó feledés.''
Weöres: A teljesség felé
" A művészet nem ábrázolás, hanem sugárzás.
De ezt a sugárzást csak azok tudják érzékelni és felfogni, akik magukban hordozzák azt a titokzatos, lemeznél, membránnál is érzékenyebb műszert, mely rögzíti és továbbítja a néző, hallgató, olvasó lelkében a művészetet.
...
Az emberek nagy tömege az állatnál is is érzéketlenebb a művészettel szemben. "Nini, hasonlít"- mondják. Vagy: Jól eltalálta." Vagy Úgy írja le, mintha velem történt volna."
Csukd be a szemed, öntsél forró ólmot füledbe, hallgass, dolgozz. Ne várj tőlük semmit: nincs műszerük ahhoz, amit mondasz vagy mondani szeretnél.”

Márai Sándor, Füveskönyv


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