Budapest when Evening Falls

There is always something intimate, personal, about Fekete’s photographs, but not sentimentally personal; there is rather a point of reference, a sign of life- an object, a figure, a light, a movement- that connects the viewer with what sees. Here something has definitely changed. This is not a new townscape but a new lifestyle, the capital’s new pulse, its changed biorhythm. He has discovered something that no one else has documented, at least as far as this city was concerned. It is hard to imagine a local photographer being as dispassionate and admirer of the Budapest scene as Gábor Fekete. He harbours no prejudice, has no secret agenda. Generally speaking he does not beautify, but neither does he delight in ugliness. He is not affected by the common clichés, complexes, commonplaces. He discovers, enjoys, is surprised. He takes photographs as if he were seeing this city for the first time. That, surely, is why he succeeds in persuading those that view his photographs that they too are seeing it for the first time.