Everyday Exclusions

Everyday Exclusion was an ongoing photographic series that examined how discrimination was embedded in the routines, structures, and visual fabric of everyday life. Developed between 2010 and 2013, while I was volunteering with the Bagázs Association, the project emerged from my desire to better understand discrimination—not only as an explicit act of exclusion, but as a subtle and systemic condition shaping social relations in often invisible ways.

Rather than documenting moments of overt conflict, the photographs focused on ordinary situations in which gestures, spatial arrangements, and visual relationships suggested underlying forms of exclusion. The images did not illustrate discrimination directly; instead, they captured quiet tensions and unnoticed boundaries that structured everyday experience. The series asked how exclusion became normalized and why it often remained perceptible only to those who were affected by it.

The work originally took the form of a photoblog that grew day by day as a visual diary of observations. This expanding archive reflected an ongoing process of looking, questioning, and interpreting the social environment. For the exhibition at Trafó Gallery, curator Tibor Várnagy selected a group of photographs from the blog, presenting them as fragments of a broader investigation into the ways discrimination was produced, perceived, and overlooked in contemporary society.

2010–2013