This is an unpublished project premiered today on C41 Magazine.

Oliver Lantos (born 1992, Szentes, Hungary) is a Hungarian photographer and fashion designer, currently lives in Budapest and works in both media.

In his photographic projects, he typically looks for answers to the processing of childhood memories, the search for personal identity and inner peace – meanwhile he examines the causal relationships between different global social influences and problems, and also their effect on the human psyche, and their correlations. In 2017 Lantos has co-founded OST konzept, a contemporary fashion brand that blends Eastern and Western European aesthetics and mixes these with intelligent humor and social criticism. He typically clashes mainstream mass production with traditional tailoring in his design.

Lantos has graduated first as a fashion designer at KREA Contemporary Art Institute in 2014, and currently studies photography at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Sciences.

About Du musst dein Leben ändern – words by Oliver Lantos:

My last project is “Du musst dein Leben ändern” The series focuses on the media appearance of contemporary polarized political discourse ( especially in Hungary ) and its impact on the human psyche. The images in the series are sorted in pairs by a universal system of symbols, and the image pairs ordered in an infinite association chain. Though in the process I operated mostly with staged photos, this was consciously done as if we examined the world around us through the eyes of a 21st-century flaneur. My intent this way was to emphasize the ordinariness and currency of the series. I want to bring these global problems as close as possible to the viewers.
In the series, built environment is represented as much as the natural environment. The frustration I experience in the one urges my exploration of the other territory, while digital reality influences both – we cannot find ourselves in natural environment either any more.
Through associative image creation my aim is not to find solutions, but to make a better understanding of the connection between the environment and the persons in it, their momentary mood, their vision of the future, and also mine.
Considering the genre of the images, I tried to capture the current mood of society as diversely as possible, while the varied style of the photos resembles the image chains of social media surfaces.