Taken from the melting pot of inspiration that is
Nikolai Bakharev’s portraits of bathers from Russian lakes taken in the 1980’s, a love of architecture and a fascination with meeting and talking to random people, Baths of Budapest is a portrait of the older generation of public bathers in Hungry. Five days of wondering around the baths communicating in English to seemingly only people that spoke Hungarian required lots of hand signals, me holding onto a camera that people kept trying to take from me after mis-interpreting my requests for pictures as a request for people to take pictures of me, and zero beautiful ounces of shame from anyone too paranoid to have their portrait taken. Soft tones, gentle experiences and a collection of portraits to represent the the wisest generation of all.
