Surveillance Photo – Opening Event
Budapest and Prague Through the Eyes of State Security
The exhibition is based on photographs covertly taken by the former Czechoslovak and Hungarian communist security services, of people under surveillance in the streets of Prague and Budapest. They provide a unique insight into contemporary techniques of covert investigation, and the everyday practices of oppression and intimidation. The Hungarian photos are being made available to the wider public for the first time.
Events
exhibition opening
MINK András
The exhibition is based on photographs covertly taken by the former Czechoslovak and Hungarian communist security services, of people under surveillance in the streets of Prague and Budapest. They provide a unique insight into contemporary techniques of covert investigation, and the everyday practices of oppression and intimidation. The Hungarian photos are being made available to the wider public for the first time.
The exhibition is based on photographs covertly taken by the former Czechoslovak and Hungarian communist security services, of people under surveillance in the streets of Prague and Budapest. They provide a unique insight into contemporary techniques of covert investigation, and the everyday practices of oppression and intimidation. The Hungarian photos are being made available to the wider public for the first time.
Opening remarks by
István Rév, Director, OSA
Opening speech by
Michal Černý, Director of the Czech Center in Budapest
Sándor Szilágyi, writer on Photography, and founder of the samizdat periodical Beszélő
The event is in Hungarian.