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Children the focus of Ata Kandó’s unique photos, now on show in Budapest
“Wherever I went in the world, if I wasn’t taking any photographs I felt like I was there for no reason.” Ata Kandó’s life was never dull.
She traveled everywhere, constantly capturing people and places.
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She took photos of refugees during Hungary's Revolution, lived among the natives in the forests of Venezuela and created dream-like images of her own children. Last September, she passed away, three days before her th birthday.
Now the Deák Ferenc Gallery is presenting a selection of her best work, on view until June 2nd.
Born in Hungary in , as a girl Etelka Görög could not pronounce her own name and simply called herself Ata. The nickname stuck for a lifetime.
Ata Kandó started her photography practice in , mostly taking images of children. Later she married painter Gyula Kandó – nephew of Hungarian inventor Kálmán Kandó, father of the electric train – and the ambitious pair moved to Paris.
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