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Eszter Halasi


I am Eszter Halasi, a self-taught photographer from Hungary currently residing in England. With a passion for capturing meaningful moments, I specialize in portraits of children and families, and the ethnic group lifestyle. My goal is to challenge stereotypes and promote understanding through my images.

Throughout my journey, I have received recognition for my work, including a bronze prize in the Budapest Photo Awards and honorable mentions in International Competitions. I continually seek opportunities for growth. I achieved second place in the Hungarian Press Photo, Portrait and Human Portrait category in 2021.

I has been shortlisted on : Portrait of Britain (2022) and ( 2023), Global Peace Photo Award (2023), International Women in Photo Award 2023, Finalist at the BCN-DH International Photo Festival 2023

My photographs have been featured in online publications and exhibited at festivals, showcasing the diverse narratives I strive to capture. Through my lens, I aim to evoke empathy, challenge perceptions, and celebrate the beauty of life. As I continue t

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Federated Department of History | Faculty Emeriti

  • Zeynep Çelik (B. Arch. Istanbul Technical University; M. Arch. Rice University; PhD. University of California, Berkeley; Doctor Honoris Causa, Bosporus University, 2013) is distinguished professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Department of Federated History at the NJIT and Rutgers-Newark. Her publications include The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century (1986—winner of the Institute of Turkish Studies Book Award, 1987), Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth Century World’s Fairs (1992), Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (1993—co-editor), Urban Forms and Colonial Confrontations: Algiers under French Rule (1997), Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914 (2008—winner of the Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, 2010), Walls of Algiers: Narratives of the City through Text and Image 

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    The Memories Collection Group within the Institute of Party History

    1Oral history methods have been widely used in Hungarian social science since the 1980s. In almost all cases, studies based on historical interviews dealt with political taboos, trying to reconstruct the history of the 1956 revolution and the Shoah. The reason for this was quite simple: the bulk of written documents had been lost or remained unavailable. It later turned out, however, that with the application of oral history methods it was impossible to describe past events as they had really happened. Another problematic feature was that this method could not actually cope with the relationships of the actual events and their memories. This method does not reflect (not being its subject matter) on the difference between memory, experience and the past event, i.e. on the—unconscious—process of the selection of the moments that are “worthy of preservation”, of “included in memory” from the past by the subject.1 For both the practitioners of oral history and those who pay attention from a distance a huge amount

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