Surveillance Photo

Budapest and Prague through the Eyes of the State Security Services

The exhibition is based on photographs covertly taken by the former Czechoslovak and Hungarian communist security services, of people under surveillance in the streets of Prague and Budapest. They provide a unique insight into contemporary techniques of covert investigation, and the everyday practices of oppression and intimidation. The Hungarian photos are being made available to the wider public for the first time.

Galeria Centralis, OSA Archivum
1051 Budapest, Arany János utca 32.

The exhibit runs from 20 September until October 30, 2011.
Admission free

Partners: Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security Services, Budapest
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague
Czech Center, Budapest

More Information

Other documents of the Hungarian state security services at OSA can be found here.