Falu: Photobook on resourcefulness in the smallest Hungarian villages

Daniel Halasz has spent several years researching Hungary's smallest communities, villages with fewer than a hundred residents. The resulting photobook, Falu (Hungarian for "village"), grew out of this long fieldwork and is part of his doctoral research at KU Leuven - LUCA School of Arts and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

The book is about resilience and practical resourcefulness, and what it looks like when people repair, reuse, and improvise under constraint, generation after generation. It brings together 72 photographs with fragments of text, including statistical data, bits of conversation, and literary excerpts, creating multiple voices rather than one closed narrative.