UrbanPhotoFest: The Yellow Star Houses of Budapest

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As a photographer who holds that the ’cartographic’ map is only as the last photograph taken, Swann’s current exhibition The Yellow Star Houses of Budapest is geared to both freeze the past historic moment in time and to open it up to possible present and future remapping and disputable interpretations. These photographs map a current interpretation of a significant historical moment in the history of the Hungarian Capital, the map drawn in these photographs is a highly selected part of a vast urban labyrinth of almost 2000 apartment blocks that created, by the government decree, these ‘dispersed ghettos’ in June 1944.