Some see him as a documentary photographer and some see the line between photography and fine arts in his works. However, both groups concur that his creations are progressive pieces, timeless values of Hungarian photography. | Peter Baki, photo curator
Zoltan sets out to capture mundane, undirected moments that practically demand to have mysterious stories invented about them. He creates context where there were previously none and by this, even coincidence is impregnated with meaning. Looking at his pictures, we tread through improbable lands; strange, inexplicable things happen to us. These are subjective landscapes, which only open up if we pay close attention to ourselves and the world. | Tibor Miltényi, photo-aesthete
His works have binds to the old school of photography, of course this doesn’t mean anachronism, reminiscence, or a die-hard, antiquated approach, but the simple fact that he sticks to the representational, perpetuating (trivial) aspect of his device, photography. He directs his camera toward the world which seems inexhaustibly interesting with remarkable humility, patience and sensitivity. He has no intentions of altering either the spectacle or the picture created of it by applying methods foreign to the original, fundamental nature of photography. His art does not feed on such ”added values” but on framing particular segments of space and time out of an infinite number of occurrences in the world, which hold a meaning outside their mere existence for him and for others and he does so with his own specific approach. Framing is, of course, carried out with the original and confident use of photographic devices, by applying the strictly ”Zoltanesque” viewpoint, cuts, compositions and tones. | Klára Szarka, technical writer
I try to tell stories concentrated into photos. Maybe this is why out of all my photos I have never heard the same interpretation twice. For only I know the shooting script of the given photo… I was working for a weekly for twelve years, that is why I have two photographers in me: one tries to convey reality in the most concrete and intelligible way, while the other does just the opposite. It enjoys the improbability of reality and the fact that It can be transmitted by a theoretically objective tool, photography. | Zoltán Vancsó
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