Previous uploads About us Donors Donate Weekly Fortepan blog Forum Facebook Instagram Projects Contact us Privacy Policy
Notifications
New Collection
Old Photos for New Year
4000 photos from the 20th century, which is becoming more and more distant. The most interesting frames from authors' estates and collections in this year's last edition of Fortepan. Everyday life without wars and revolutions, politicians, explorers, actors and sportsmen. In their place, big barbecues, dawn fishing, rock climbing, school exams and boring May Day parades. That's what we used to be. Us, too.
1900
1990
Fortepan is a copyright-free and community-based photo archive with over 100,000 photographs available for anyone to browse and download in high-resolution, free of charge.
„And pure existence dictates that there is nothing—no love, no bloodshed, no party loyalty, no sexual attraction, no cascade of lava, no volunteer blood donor, no sunset, nothing in which there is life beating, or nothing that is at the brink of being devoured by non-existence but holds on to life tightly still—that you could picture easily without the color red.” The Color of All Colors: Writer Attila Bartis on Photos from the Fortepan Archive appeared first on Weekly Fortepan.
Weekly Fortepan blog
In this blog, updated weekly in Hungarian and fortnightly in English, we explore the background stories of the Fortepan photos and donors in richly illustrated articles. All our posts can be republished under a CC licence.
Previous uploads
Every month or two, we update our site with around 2-3000 images, often mixing family photos of many donors, but sometimes a photo documentation of an author or a company is added to the archive.
