The Finnish say KÄSI, the Hungarians say KÉZ.
As a Hungarian photographer I arrived in Finland with the intention of depicting the hands of immigrants.
A Columbian man is playing with a coffee bean.
The local Japanese partner of the MESTARIN HERKKU store is shaping sushi.
A Kosovo Albanian café owner is offering a slice of RUNEBERGIN TORTTU.
A Kurdish pizzamaker from Iran flings up the dough.
A Congolese baby is grabbing his feeding bottle.
A Sudanese student is frying SILAKKA.
A Jamaican lady is spinning JOULU TORTTU.
A French girl is writing the word "apple" in Finnish (OMENA) on the blackboard.
An Estonian monk is breaking bread.
Hands.
They are fundamental links connecting person to person just like people to food.
Hands and gestures are sometimes even more honest than the eyes.
I have chosen hands to be the central images of my SETSE-material.
SETSE - Seeing Europe Through Strangers Eyes
TEBIH - Touching Europe By Immigrants Hands
György Gáti, born in 1954 in Budapest, is a 55 year old independent photographer. He works in almost all areas and genres of photography.
After completing his studies at the Prater Street School of Photography in Budapest, he worked as a photo reporter, while also preparing LP covers. For a while he also worked as the Budapest correspondent of the Paris based Sygma picture agency and as the Editor in Chief of the CyberEst newspaper.
He has had a dozen individual exhibitions, and he also participated in joint exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. In recent years, he has been a participant of the Kapolcs Art Valley Festival and the Budapest ARC giant poster exhibition.
In 2009, he had a joint exhibition together with Ferenc Markovics, under the title MA/GÁT fotózták (We have photographed you). He has been awarded a number of prizes, most recently, he has received the Balogh Rudolf Prize.
He has received scholarships from the Hungarian National Culture Fund, he has worked for two months in Paris with the support of the André Kertész Grant. He has photographed in Salzburg with the scholarship of the Budapest Gallery. He has also been awarded with the HUNGART scholarship.
He has prepared a number of book illustrations, and he has designed posters and various publications.
Nowadays when pictures and photographs are so ofted debated, the approach and artistic attitude of György Gáti are especially highly – as he once stated in an interview –, he does not look for themes or shapes, only for Images.
He creates values in almost all genres of photography, he finds new ways, but at the same time, he is capable of continuing the historic traditions of photography too.
