Eddy Smid

Eddy Smid, born and raised in Groningen (NL), with a predilection for Hungary as a country since 1984, because of its history, culture, population and a geographical location with special sun positions for photographers, stays there for the greater part of the year and was surprised by the work of Hungarian photographers from the mid-20th century, who would be an inspiration for his way of working.

Because of his own broad field of interest, Eddy does not limit himself to one specific form of photography, nor does he stage his subjects.
He selects on light, interplay of lines and composition, placing himself somewhere between street, portrait, social and reportage photography.
He is a self-taught photographer, raised in a family with an active interest in amateur photography, having started with an AGFA box and its magical darkroom process of film development, photo paper exposure and development, but is shooting digitally nowadays and he is above all autonomous since some twenty years.

He photographs his subjects, partly in Hungary and partly in the north of the Netherlands, and they are sometimes the result of specific quests, but they also come up spontaneously.
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