Could it be that a person is actually a landscape?
That emotions and thoughts are no longer
emotions and thoughts inside him,
but images of a trail, a section of forest,
and if we asked him a question,
the most honest answer would be
if he’d lead the inquirer to that place,
pointing in answer, mute, to that space.
(Ákos Győrffy: Landscape)
The Landslides photos seek the heart of nature, Mankind’s original and worldly home, the mysterious and radiant core where we are all one. This series can be experienced as a sort of experiment in restoration. The pictures focus on one point and attempt to illustrate the formlessness that lurks behind form, the colourless within colour. Their arrangement in a series is the quiet, yet staggering story of this search. | Ákos Győrffy, author
In recent years, making visible the quietly existing, yet invisible soul of forests has become a main preoccupation of mine. I am not a nature photographer; I do not photograph trees or birds; still, with their aid, I strive to present a co-existing, yet intangible world. The task is not so difficult; the pictures practically take themselves. Often I feel that they find me. With 20 years’ experience of street photography behind me, I have unexpectedly discovered a mystical world — far from my accustomed “territories” as a photographer — which has no direct links to my earlier artistic style; still it feeds off it. I consider the Landslides project to be my most exciting undertaking so far. | Zoltán Vancsó
The pictures of the catalogue printed in 500 numbered copies can also be viewed at Zoltán’s website.
It is as though Zoltán were always dreaming while awake. Even his nightmares would be more beautiful than the most beautiful waking lives of others. | Csilla Markója, art historian