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Work by Anna Tihanyi: a person in white with feathered angel wings crouching in the corner of a dim, weathered teal room.
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Anna Tihanyi

Work by Anna Tihanyi: three women in white lying sideways, with a rifle, ice skates, a lacrosse helmet, and stacks of books, on a white ground.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: diptych of a child in a dark coat facing a small framed picture on a wall, and a yellow car beside a mound of colorful candies at night.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: diptych of a small framed picture on a wall above a toy car, and colorful candies on a dark hillside at night.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: a woman with dark hair in green water with a comic thought bubble: "I don't care! I'd rather sink-- than call Brad for help!"
Work by Anna Tihanyi: a blond woman and dark-haired man beside a blank canvas, with a comic speech bubble praising the painting as a masterpiece.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: close-up of a woman's eyes above a red mask, with a speech bubble asking what you know about my image duplicator.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: a person in a blue T-shirt and shorts stands in a dark forest ringed by red and white tape, near small toy deer.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: a person holding colorful balloons in a night forest with red and white tape, small toy animals, and glowing light drawings.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: a person in white with feathered angel wings crouching in the corner of a dim, weathered teal room.
Work by Anna Tihanyi: a woman in a wide hat and shawl walks away down a cobblestone street at night, lit by a streetlamp.
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Anna Tihanyi is a storyteller, and photography is her favorite language. Each of her pictures is a contemporary little tale about human beings, their minds, surrealism, and reality. Fiction has always played an important role in her life. She believes that imagination is not the opposite of reality, but in fact they can't exist without each other.

Tihanyi is interested in photography because of its narrative capacity, that the image is frozen in time, and there is no before or after told. She loves the reconstructing capacity of photography that by transforming elements from the existing world it shows us a parallel universe, and leads back to something faithful at the same time.

Tihanyi majored in experimental photography, where she came across a perspective of photography that greatly appealed to her appreciation of fiction: the narrative being concentrated into one single frame.

Tihanyi believes that her determination and passion for art combined with photography's growing critical and creative possibilities helps her raise more questions about our importance in existence, society, or mass culture.

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