Uncropped, 2026

Interactive installation for the Uncropped exhibition at the Museum of Ethnography (Budapest), featuring a custom map-based visualization and a photo-negative browser to explore a collection of 25,000 fragile glass negatives from rural Hungarian studio photography.

Uncropped: Fragile Photographic Realities is an interactive installation created for the Museum of Ethnography, Budapest.

The installation features a custom map-based visualization and an interactive photo-negative browser, allowing visitors to explore more than 1,300 photographs from the exhibition’s archive. The archive is built around a collection of 25,000 fragile glass negatives from rural Hungarian studio photography, documenting everyday life in the Hungarian countryside in the early decades of the 20th century.

credits
Curator: Tímea Bata
Created by: Gita Elek, Gáspár Hajdu, Samu Setényi, Sipos Melinda