Us, living on the crust
2023-2024
The Hungarian government views the country as Europe’s bulwark, the defending border. They have been conducting a determined, aggressive anti-migrant campaign for years driving people’s opinion in a really exclusionary way. At the Serbian-Hungarian border, illegal human trafficking has been constant in the past years. In the vicinity of the border crossing, numerous abandoned and burnt cars could be found as remnants of police chases.




Borders are cultural and national remnants, and modern human beings need to reconsider their meanings and significance. Everywhere is the same and we divide the same with fabricated reasons. Due to the monomania of a few people, more and more people are forced to leave their homes. They have to become lost strangers, willingly or not.


Delving into the concept of borders between countries, especially through the edge of the Schengen area, Us, living on the crust delivers an attempt to discover what the journey of becoming an outsider might mean today.


The photo series is based on a poem I wrote that can be interpreted in three ways. I combined the description of an illegal border-crossing process with my personal thoughts on boundaries.


The Hungarian far-right party held a demonstration on the 11th of november at the border, advocating for the reinforcement of the border barrier. I traveled there to capture photographs at the event and around the Schengen border.