SPAO had the honour of receiving a rather unexpected guest last Friday... documentary photographer Gabor Szilasi stopped by the school after being invited by George Horton, one of SPAO's second year students!! We were all very excited to meet him and ask him questions about both his career in the photography industry and ones relating to the state of photography in our world today. With many of us having recently seen his exhibition entitled "The Eloquence of The Everyday: Gabor Szilasi" which currently on at the National Gallery of Canada, it was absolutely thrilling to meet him and to talk to him about his work.
“My subjects in photography really deal with every day life, mostly with people and their environment whether it’s indoors or outdoors and that is what always interested me. I like … how everything changes, how everything is in eternal flux … you know signs change, buildings are demolished, new buildings constructed, same thing with people. If you walk into an interior to take a photograph, if you come back the next day it’s not the same anymore. It might be just one object moved in the room but this constant change interests me and that’s one reason that I’m interested in social documentary.” Szilasi, November 2008.
Photograph: Caroline Tallmadge.
