Humor has a strange place in photography. So often a humorous photograph undermines the subject matter or the medium itself and leaves the image feeling like a ploy for cheap laughs. But when it works, when composition and moment and environment come together just right, and the photographer is clever enough to know when and how to press the shutter, a humorous photograph can have a tremendous impact.
Hajdu Tamas is the kind of photographer who is not afraid to point his camera at the absurdity of life, even when that life is hard. His photographs of the minutia in small-town Romania present delightful juxtapositions of the old ways of doing things and the new direction in which its residents are trying to move. A high dive towers above an old cemetery, a cow pokes it head out of someone’s backyard bushes with apartment towers visible behind it.
Tamas does not romanticize the environment, but rather takes a self-deprecating approach to the place he calls home. A veterinarian by trade, Tamas hones in on the relationship between the town’s people and animals. Livestock is used for work and for food, yet wanders in and out of the frames with a nonchalant attitude akin to the domestic animals. His exquisite balance of subtle humor and compassion reminds us that it is okay for art to make us laugh.
More info: hajdutamas.blogspot.ro
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Pictures are sad but present laughable contradictions between Intentions and Outcomes, between petty Desires and poor Resources.
Gloomy, not funny. Narrow choice of subjects too, let's show more Romanian beauty and smart, what say you ?
What are those bloody things in the truck? Couldn't find any humor there.
it would help if you provide a caption for each photo so we could 'read' your mind, too.
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Some are humorours, but the skinned ones in the truck is definitely not.
I loved the pictures, as much as i am always resonant with the idea of showing moar of rawmania! i think us romanians should definitely not forget one of our secret weapons, when romanians have it bad, they don't cry, they make fun of it! :D
Nice photography mate! I'm Bulgarian and the photos could have easily been taken from here as well :)
I find these photos beautiful but sad. "Humour" is overstated for these photos! I see nothing funny here.
So what? You traveled to a small village and took some picture and with them you believe you pictured the whole nation? Funny...
Pictures are sad but present laughable contradictions between Intentions and Outcomes, between petty Desires and poor Resources.
Gloomy, not funny. Narrow choice of subjects too, let's show more Romanian beauty and smart, what say you ?
What are those bloody things in the truck? Couldn't find any humor there.
it would help if you provide a caption for each photo so we could 'read' your mind, too.
Load More Replies... Some are humorours, but the skinned ones in the truck is definitely not.
I loved the pictures, as much as i am always resonant with the idea of showing moar of rawmania! i think us romanians should definitely not forget one of our secret weapons, when romanians have it bad, they don't cry, they make fun of it! :D
Nice photography mate! I'm Bulgarian and the photos could have easily been taken from here as well :)
I find these photos beautiful but sad. "Humour" is overstated for these photos! I see nothing funny here.
So what? You traveled to a small village and took some picture and with them you believe you pictured the whole nation? Funny...
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