Les Lunettes de Miklós Mészöly (1996/2009), photos, 30 x 45 cm

In 2009 I came across a 13-year-old photo series in my sister’s photo album. Snapshots, what I took back in 1996 during a family party - without any artistic purpose whatsoever. It all started as a joke, but now I turned these pictures into an art project in order to represent the power of photography and time in general.
These images were made of my siblings and friends posing in front of a drapery, wearing the thick-glassed spectacles of the remarkable writer, Miklós Meszöly (1921-2001). The youngsters looking into the camera through the glasses of the famous Hungarian playwright, either in a tense or serious manner or, on the contrary, laughing, confused by the odd situation.

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly  

les lunettes de Miklós Mészöly