The World Press Photo exhibition, on display in Hungary’s National Museum, receives more than four million visitors from around the world every…
Under-18s have been banned from visiting this year’s World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest after Hungary’s right-wing populist government said some of the images violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content.
But a set of five photographs by Filipino photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales led a far-right Hungarian politician to file a complaint with the country’s cultural ministry, which found they violate a Hungarian law that bans the display of LGBTQ+ content to children.The photographs, which document a community of elderly LGBTQ+ people in the Philippines who have shared a home for decades and cared for each other as they age, depict some community members dressed in drag and wearing make up.
The move to ban young people from the exhibition is the latest by Hungary’s government, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, to restrict the availability of materials that promote — or depict — homosexuality to children in media, including television, films, advertisements and literature. Ms Reyes Morales said the subjects in her photographs serve as “icons and role models” to the LGBTQ+ community in the Philippines and they are “not dangerous or harmful”.
Tamas Revesz, a former World Press Photo jury member who has been the organiser of Hungary’s exhibitions for more than three decades, said many of the photographs in the exhibition — such as coverage of the war in Ukraine — are “a thousand times more serious and shocking” than Ms Reyes Morales’ series.
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