Engin Özendes: Exposures of an Empire. Photography in the Ottoman Empire (1839–1919)
Catalogue, 2001, 48 pages, 14 pictures, HUF 1.000
“They, the Turks and we, the Hungarian have obligations on several occasions towards one another.
Plenty of obligations, which have been grownig, multiplying through history. We, the conscientious
descentants are destined to fulfill these obligations.
For instance, at this exhibition presenting Turkish people, landscapes, joys and sorrows through
photographs taken during the last century of the Ottoman Empire. All those things we tended to ignore
while recalling stories of Zrínyi, Pál Kinizsi and the heroines of Eger fighting against Turks. Get to
know and get to love – seems to be an acceptable slogan.”
Károly Kincses