Behind the Iron Curtain: Intimate Views of Life in Communist Hungary
Andras Bankuti’s images of Hungary straddle the country’s complex communist period, showing struggling families, rousing political gatherings and a punk movement.
Photographing in socialist Hungary in the decades leading to democratic rule, Andras Bankuti knew that everything was political. Aware of taboo subjects – religion, poverty, drugs, among others – he resorted to self-censorship. “The second I pressed the shutter release,” he said, “I knew which of my pictures could not be published.”