Ágnes Danó and her extended family live on the outskirts of Budapest beneath the flight path of the Ferihegy Airport. She is a cook in a school and the main breadwinner in her family. Her husband has a heart condition and her youngest son is suffering from leukaemia.
We first met Agnes at the Roma Festival AtheSam (We Are Here) where we sat next to each other. Although we could not speak each others language we communicated very well through signs, gestures and dance. Although usually more reticent Agnes invited us to her home to meet her family and promised to cook for us our favourite Hungarian meal – chicken paprika.
This video was made on this occasion with the assistance of an interpreter Zsuszsi Szasz
Tina (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1950) studied photography at Harrow College of Art. Annemarie (Munich, 1947) graduated from Munich Academy of Fine Art 1973, and was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma by Saddler’s Wells Stage Design Course in 1974.
Tina and Annemarie are lens based artists who work collaboratively on documentary, research based multimedia projects often in partnership with voluntary organisations and community groups. They have exhibited widely at the National Portrait Gallery and the Photographer’s Gallery London, Ffotogallery Cardiff, the Westphälisches Industrie Museum Dortmund, János Balázs Gallery, Roma Parliament, Budapest.
Two monographs of their work have been published – Pigs and Ingots, Ylolfa 1993 and Coalfaces, Parthian 2008.
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