Emese Benko
Photographer

I was born and grew up in Timisoara, Romania and presently live in Vienna, Austria.

After studying anthropology and psychology, I felt that I no longer want to explain the world but rather express it. My curiosity for everything that is human, the wish to ‘see’ and get closer to people led me to photography.

I am a freelance photographer and some of my work is distributed by the ASAblanca Agency, based in Vienna.

STATEMENT

Making photography begins with a certain state of mind. It is all about curiosity and the desire to connect. Connecting heart and mind with other people, through the viewfinder.

Whenever you take a picture, you make a statement – not only about what you see but also about yourself.

You are what you see.

Emese Benko
Photographer

I was born and grew up in Timisoara, Romania and presently live in Vienna, Austria.

After studying anthropology and psychology, I felt that I no longer want to explain the world but rather express it. My curiosity for everything that is human, the wish to ‘see’ and get closer to people led me to photography.

I am a freelance photographer and some of my work is distributed by the ASAblanca Agency, based in Vienna.

STATEMENT

Making photography begins with a certain state of mind. It is all about curiosity and the desire to connect. Connecting heart and mind with other people, through the viewfinder.

Whenever you take a picture, you make a statement – not only about what you see but also about yourself.

You are what you see.

PHOTOGRAPHY: HERE. NOW. AWARE.

There is no wish to be somewhere else, in some other time. This moment is all there is. Being fully in the present.

Then try this in your everyday life. Without a camera.

  • Jananne Al-Ani / LANDMARKS
    Oct 10 – Nov 11, 2023
    Ab-Anbar Gallery
    London, UK
    Ab-Anbar presents Landmarks, a solo exhibition by London-based Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani. The exhibition spans more than two decades of photographic and moving image work, focusing on Al-Ani’s longstanding interest in the power of the gaze in response to lens-based technologies, the significance of eye-witness testimony, and the disappearance of the body in highly charged and contested landscapes. (more…)
  • Adam Pendleton: To Divide By
    Sep 22, 2023 – Jan 15, 2024
    Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
    St. Louis, USA
    “What is your name?” “Where are you from?” “How did you end up here?” “Can you feel it?” “Does it hurt?” With these and other questions, the American artist Adam Pendleton’s solo exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum sets up an elaborate call-and-response network that articulates a sense of history as fragmented poetics. The exhibition will showcase a polyvocal assemblage of new and recent paintings, drawings, and video portraits that together reveal Pendleton’s interest in creating a conversation between mediums, as well as his belief in abstraction’s capacity to destabilize and disrupt. (more…)