Exhibition · 2016

I Became a Father

Bálna, Budapest

In my own words

The most personal one. When my own world turned upside down, I did the only thing I know how to do: I picked up a camera and pointed it at other men standing in the same storm.

Black and white, very close, no posing. Just fathers with their children — a hand on a small back, a sleeping weight on a shoulder. Everything the word 'masculinity' fails to say is in those frames. Men are told to be strong and silent; I wanted to photograph what strength actually looks like when nobody is performing it.

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Works from the exhibition

I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition
I Became a Father — Works from the exhibition

© Norbert Bánhalmi / BANHALMI. All rights reserved. Images from the BANHALMI archive, 1999–2026.

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