2020 was dominated by the coronavirus. As spring restrictions eased, the public paid more attention to events around the SZFE and outgoing Index editorial staff, but the relatively free summer was followed by further tightening in the fall due to the second wave of the epidemic. , and the holidays were different than usual. However, our photojournalists have changed in many places this year too – we show how this year was through their lenses.
Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu Felix is four and a half years old. Her parents were severely visually impaired and many warned her not to try to raise a child with that disability. Szilvia and Zsolt weren’t planning on being parents, but when it was unexpected, they didn’t hesitate for a minute. We wonder if everyday life was happening to them like in any other Hungarian family. As our article shows: not quite.Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu We interviewed Enikő Eszenyi, who is running for another term as director, in late February, and she said she condemned all forms of violence, including abuse of power and mental violence. After that, Lili Fenyvesi approached our page, who together with Panni Néder reported in detail about the toxic atmosphere created by Eszenyi’s methods and abuses of power at the Comedy Theater. A short time later, Eszenyi withdrew his application.Ivándi- Szabó Balázs / 24.hu March inscription on Kossuth Lajos street in Budapest. In the first wave of the coronavirus, the government announced a curfew from March 28 to April 11, which was later extended.
Marjai János / 24.hu The elderly will be transferred from the nursing home in Pesti út to the National Institute of Pulmonology in Koranyi on April 9, after the number of confirmed coronavirus infections among residents rose to more than 100.Marjai János / 24.hu In May, we showed in pairs of pictures how our daily lives changed during the epidemic period.Márton Mohos / 24.hu Coronavirus test at the Városmajor Cardiovascular Clinic, Semmelweis University. The May study, which included a population of nearly 18,000 and a representative population, examined transmission.
Farkas Norbert / 24.hu The first unrestricted weekend on the shores of Lake Balaton on May 9, 2020. The government first introduced aid in the countryside after the first wave of the epidemic and then two weeks later also in the capital.Márton Mohos / 24.hu In Tardon, the townspeople who moved there brought to life the settlement’s cultural symbol, the matyo embroidery that has become a keepsake over the decades. Today, twenty-seven women embroider for the Matyodesign factory. Find clothes at the airport, in hotels, in Parliament and in the Basilica shop.Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu Rujder Vivien filmed Gateway House on June 26 after film production closed due to the epidemic. Filming for the movie Bird’s Evening was the last to stop at the start of the pandemic and was the first to start over.
Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu A portrait of the award-winning Kossuth István Orosz, who made Gyula Horn’s work difficult with his famous poster, but even repatriated Soviet soldiers stormed the Bem Square warehouse for him. Later, with a zombie-Lenin, he won the favor of the Russians. The photo was taken with a special lens, an anamorphosis image. István Orosz also used this technique in his works.Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu For seven years, the Invisible School has been trying to help the underprivileged, VIII. district, mainly for Roma children. We spoke to two of their assistants and also visited their first joint post-quarantine program to tackle it: while the workshop is invisible by name, its results are highly visible.Farkas Norbert / 24.hu There was even a demonstration in Vásárosnamény about what happened at the local sewing shop, where Eastern European sleeves were sewing expensive Western suits. A decades-long history recently took a dramatic turn with the closure of the plant. Miklós Gergely Nagy won the Paul Lendvai Award for his shocking report on seamstresses.
Farkas Norbert / 24.hu The outgoing publisher of the Index. At the helm, Veronika Munk is the deputy editor-in-chief and Attila Tóth-Szenesi is the editor-in-chief and former editor-in-chief. More than 80 members of the editorial board rose after the chairman of the board, László Bodolai, fired the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Szabolcs Dull. Most of those who left later founded Telex.hu, while Index continues to operate with a new guard.Marjai János / 24.hu “He scolded the government until his mouth was full of good work.” This is István Dombóvári’s favorite comment, which someone posted on his Facebook page after the comedian shared it: he became the director of the Jászkarajénő House of Culture. Why did you want to be the director of a house of culture in a settlement of 2,800 enthusiasts? And what do the villagers have to say about this? We went after him. Márton Mohos / 24.hu In Cserdi, Baranya region, after the tragic suicide of the previous mayor, László Bogdán, his younger brother, Gyula Bogdán, was elected mayor on 4 October. Before the vote, we prepare a report in Cserdi.
Márton Mohos / 24.hu Demonstration against the transformation of the University of Theater and Film Arts on August 31. After the demonstration, at night, the students dragged the building under a barricade.Farkas Norbert / 24.hu Gábor Máté also “guarded” the SZFE building, his students sang the song Ádám Dévényi and the Transitional Coat: Present on September 5.Farkas Norbert / 24.hu Tamás Patkás, Rocky, suffered a terrible accident in the mid-1990s that caused the loss of both legs. From the first minute of his recovery he set himself serious goals. The 49-year-old swimmer recently drew attention to himself swimming through the Bosphorus that separates Europe from Asia. We accompany the II. To swim in Lake Tatai in the ancient lake.Farkas Norbert / 24.hu “I have to get up off the ground so many times that I can feel myself and the team: we are running out of strength,” Nóra L. Ritók told 24.hu after the government withdrew half of the state support from the Igazgyöngy Foundation, which she directs, for this school year. Due to the slightly resigned tone of the reaction, have we been able to find out if the True Pearl masters have risen off the ground since then?Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu #freeSzFE was organized by students from the University of Theater and Film Arts. The purpose of the relay chain was to hand over the University Charter to Parliament on September 6.Farkas Norbert / 24.hu György Budaházy and his wife, Edda, appeared in front of the Atrium Theater with their 25-30 fans and dozens of protesters to protest against the reading of the fairy tale book Fairy Tale for Everyone on October 3.Márton Mohos / 24.hu Gábor Szarka, the rector appointed by the Attila Vidnyányszky party board, will arrive at the University of Theater and Film Arts on his first working day. Students were not allowed in, thus continuing the strike that lasted 38 days at the time.Marjai János / 24.hu Sowing horror, silencing the policemen: the mayor of Soroksár is fighting against those who help the homeless with special means. Ferenc Bese, with the support of Fidesz, managed to prevent an association that helps people living in poverty from building apartments on their own land. However, a few blocks away, a couple who had previously lived on the streets, who would never have had a home without the Street to Apartment Association, had already joined. In October, Attila Kálmán, a journalist for our newspaper, won the Quality Award in Journalism and the photojournalist János Marjai for processing the story.Márton Mohos / 24.hu A four-star hotel, a marina and 16 tennis courts can be built on the shores of Lake Neusiedl with state money. In the national park area, Lőrinc Mészáros’s company manages the investment, which the locals protested to no avail.Márton Mohos / 24.hu The Hungarian soccer team defeated the Icelanders 2-1 at the Puskás Arena on November 12, so it will be there at the postponed European Championships from next year to next.Balázs Ivándi-Szabü / 24.hu The staff of the Anti-Terrorism Center are patrolling downtown Budapest at the start of the curfew ordered by the second wave of the epidemic, on November 11 at 8:00 p.m.Marjai János / 24.hu Her mother left her in the Siófok hospital, but she feels that she did better. He had foster parents who beat him and starved him, and then when he had a good family, it took him a while to get used to eating when he wanted. She became a national handball player and became a fitness model, but Melinda Zsiga found herself in kick-boxing.Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu Balázs Győrfy will cut down the trees at his family’s plantation on December 5 in Nemespátron, Zala county. An important part of the Christmas trees that enter our houses come from this settlement of only 280 inhabitants, where practically everyone “pine”.Marjai János / 24.hu At the end of the fall season, at the beginning of the Advent period, the harvest begins, at which point the occasional prey is caught between 300-400 gills in the net in the Old Lake of Tata. This was reported in a video report.Balázs Ivándi-Szabó / 24.hu Ildikó Ellenbach stands in the middle of a pile of ruins and shows where he has lived for the last twenty years. She is a slim, resilient, unemotional, slim woman who follows factual guidance in her previous life. A fire, an explosion, a temporary apartment, a family of five on the edge of the Great Plain. Ildikó remained standing, but they do not understand why they continue to receive a yellow check after electricity, which they do not even consume.Farkas Norbert / 24.hu From street to apartment! At the association donation, we met Béláné Hajnalka Kertész, who can move into apartment number thirty-one if the renovation is completed. He’s been patient, he’s lived in the forest for over ten years, and he still sticks a bit. Hajnalka is retired, operated for twenty years, then reduced to fifty percent, but he also worked as a disabled person. Now you can eat, wash, bathe in the warmest living room near the forest tent, and after closing time you can return home.Marjai János / 24.hu The Shelter Foundation has not been an out-of-home institution for some time, officially operating as a night shelter and a homeless convalescent in accordance with its professional schedule. The building was closed due to the coronavirus, but the delivery of Christmas packages could still be handled, strictly at the door.
