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view photos | view full screen Stolen Moment (Budapest, Hungary 2004) (10x14 black and white on Fuji Crystal Archive photographic paper; taken with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 with a Nikkor wide-angle adaptor; acid-free matte, custom wood frame, UV glass) $250 Learning about cultural differences is one of the joys of foreign travel. In Hungary, I discovered that normally private displays of affection are very much for public viewing in Budapest. Everywhere I looked, I saw lovers kissing - in the park, on street corners, even in subway advertisements for K&H Bank. All these kissing people gave this old-world city a puppy-love kind of atmosphere -- almost as if this younger generation (raised without the Iron Curtain) was staging its own cultural revolution against the restrictions of the past. I caught this public display of affection one summer afternoon on a subway ride from Szentendre to Budapest. The young husband had joined his pregnant wife for a trip into the city. |
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