The Sky Above Kóspallag is about a small village in the Börzsöny mountains, it is documentary in nature, but is based on subjective experiences. What I experience here has a special power, the landscape creates order and people adapt to it in the hope of a more sustainable future. Although I have similar experiences in my family, farming, gardening and animal husbandry play an important role, where the bond between nature and man is really close. Maybe it’s just because I can see all of this from the outside, so it is often a precarious process, because I am an outsider.
The fact that I am taking photographs of people, landscapes, and still life is less pronounced. I’m more and more embedded here, community and individual destinies are forming in front of my eyes and I want to be part of that. I don’t know what came first, that it would be good to live here, or that what is here should be immortalised. Obviously, the eye that sees more, more intimately, is the privilege of the locals, but that is not my task for the moment; I infuse the land, the house, the landscape, the rural tranquillity with my own emotions. In this, the trust of the people of Kóspallag helps me a lot.
László Gábor Belicza (1991) graduated from the University of Kaposvár in 2016. His first photo essay (Whole, 2012-2016) was selected in 2016 as one of the ten most outstanding photo projects of the year by FotoRoom. He is not specifically an exhibiting artist, he is more interested in creating photo books. His works can be found in the Rippl-Rónai Museum, the Kunsthalle, the Herman Ottó Museum, and the Petőfi Literary Museum. His works are deep and empathetic, exploring, in particular, the extreme layers of social spheres. Diary-like photographic essays and narratives combined with subjective impressions are the most characteristic attributes of his thinking about photography.