Beyond applied architectural photography

Text: Ágnes Telek-Nay

According to the Month of Photography 2012 informal professional roundtable discussion was held about architectural photography in the new cultural venue, the “Kultúrmosoda” (Patyolat//PRÓBAüzem) in the Baross Street. The site itself is also exciting, in many ways: the former laudry building, the redevelopment of the surroundings, the box jungle of Józsefváros, the Szigony Street blocks… The guests of the discussion, the three photographers, an architects and an urbanist-sociologist talked about the current trends and functions of the architectural photography. It turned out that the answers for the questions in this topic are not as straightforward as it seems.