BPF Selection / Women's Eye
As part of the Budapest Photo Festival
2026.04.10. - 05.10.

Exhibitors:
Anna Kereszty (Hungary), Anna Lehespalu (Estonia), Anna Weidle (Germany). Antonella Cunsolo (Italy), Aurelia Faudot (France), Chiara Dondi (Italy), Cristina Fontsare (Spain), Danny Retana (Mexico), Eliza-Sophie Sekrève (Netherland), Fabienne Gil Paradeis (France), Kicca Tommasi (Italy), Leah Haug (Germany), Lili Nyilassy (Hungary), Maëva Benaiche (France), Marie Sueur (France), Marjorie Gosset (France), Nazanin Alipour Jeddi (Sitaaj) (Iranian American), Rocío Bueno (Spain), Rosslana Damyanova (Bulgaria), Sara Legradi (Hungary), Sunny Quintero (Mexico), Tatyana Mazok (Belarus), The Monochromatic Society (Germany), Vanessa Lucrezia Francia (Italy), Vicky Hodgson (United Kingdom)

Curators: Mucsy Szilvia és Somosi Rita

A milestone in the history of the Budapest Photo Festival, its first international open call offers an insight into the visual mindset of contemporary female creators. The exhibition views photography not merely as a tool for pictorial representation, but as a subjective filter through which the observation and redefinition of reality take place. The presented works explore the boundaries between the private sphere and the outside world, ranging from profound, personal confessions to more assertive social statements.
The narrative arc of the exhibition moves from personal questions of fate—such as the search for identity, the experience of aging, or the psychology of loneliness—toward broader social contexts. Alongside issues of gender roles, power dynamics, and collective memory, poetic reinterpretations of family traditions and cultural heritage also take center stage.
The fundamental thesis of the exhibition shifts away from simple thematic inquiry ("what do women see?") toward a deeper approach investigating the nature of seeing itself. It analyzes how lived experience shapes imagery, and how photography becomes a primary site for conscious presence, independent opinion-forming, and the assertion of an autonomous creative vision. The exhibition was realized with the support of Pigmenta Art Print Lab.