My last project is "Du musst dein Leben ändern.*" The series focuses on the media appearance of contemporary polarized political discourse ( especially in Hungary ) and its impact on the human psyche. The images in the series are sorted in pairs by a universal system of symbols, and the image pairs ordered in an infinite association chain. Though in the process I operated mostly with staged photos, this was consciously done as if we examined the world around us through the eyes of a 21st-century flaneur. My intent this way was to emphasize the ordinariness and currency of the series. I want to bring these global problems as close as possible to the viewers. In the series, built environment is represented as much as the natural environment. The frustration I experience in the one urges my exploration of the other territory, while digital reality influences both – we cannot find ourselves in natural environment either any more. Through associative image creation my aim is not to find solutions, but to make a better understanding of the connection between the environment and the persons in it, their momentary mood, their vision of the future, and also mine. Considering the genre of the images, I tried to capture the current mood of society as diversely as possible, while the varied style of the photos resembles the image chains of social media surfaces. *You have to change your life.

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