The Cornel and Robert Capa House in Budapest

A cloudy winter day I was walking in Budapest with my camera and I decided to stop at the house, where the world most famous legendary war photographer, Robert Capa alias Endre Ernő Friedmann lived with his parents and his brother Kornél, alias Cornell Capa who later established the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. Robert Capa born to Dezső and Júlia Friedmann on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Hungary.

The house is located in the Városház utca, where the family had an apartment on the third floor. The parents run a tailor shop at the house, which was located at the corner of Pilvax Passage.

Unfortunately there's no plaque outside on the house with the name and a short life history of the Capa brothers until today. I hope one day they will be honored.

Note: The Pilvax Cafe, where the leaders of Hungarian revolution of 1848 had gathered, was still open for business just around the corner from the apartment building's entrance. Since the Pilvax Cafe is moved in to the neighboring street. Currently a Guiness Pub has at the corner. Unfortunately there's no recognition on the famous building

The other photo was taken about Capa's high school (Imre Madách Gymnazium) from the corner of Barcsay utca, where his classmates often called him on his nickname "cápa" ("a shark").

More about the life of Robert Capa click here
about Cornell Capa click here

American-Hungarian jailed for 5 days in Myanmar

Hereby I would like to call up the attention of all tourist are planning to travel to remote areas in Myanmar/Burma. At the last week of 2010 my friend was traveling alone far from the capital of Burma with the propose of taking pictures and filming the daily life of Burmese people when the secret police suddenly stopped him. Soon after he was jailed in a small and dirty cell without food and the company of two armed prison guards. At the police station besides the armed prison guards about 10 other men took pictures of him and shut video during they interrogated my friend. His laptop, camera and the camcorder was temporary confiscated until they made copy of the documents, files, etc.... My friend entered to the country with American passport. After 5 days fortunately he was released and deported to Thailand.

Note:
- He is an American-Hungarian citizen.
- He entered to the country as a tourist (private person) with visa.
- He doesn't works to media.
- He used his official American passport, but the place of born in this document is Hungary.
- U Win Tin former political leader was secretly interviewed by two Hungarian reporters this year while other international journalists (American, Japanese, British, etc...) were jailed in Burma or luckily deported to Thailand.

Hope project is among the 14 representing SDN 2010

The Boston based Sociadocumentary.net documentary photography websites investigating critical issues facing our world today, using the power of photography to promote global awareness, presents fourteen projects submitted to SDN in 2010 as representing exemplary work from the past year includes projects by photographers like Ed Kashi VII. Photo Agency and Janos Kis member of Cambodia based SEA/collectiv.

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