On our way to visit the Gellért and Széchenyi baths in Budapest, we visited the Hungarian House of Photography to take in an exhibition shot by one of their lifeguards more than 80 years ago. During the 1930s in Hungary, a lifeguard wasn’t the bored person dressed in white at the side of the pool – a lifeguard was a personality.

They were responsible for the comfort of the guests and considered the most important person in a bath. Between 1930 and 1939, Hungarian lifeguard Sándor Pusztai didn’t just welcome his guests and keep them safe, he photographed them. In the interwar years he captured an influential segment of aristocrats, politicians and artists through a series of voyeuristic-style photographs.

What I liked most about Pusztai’s images, was how ill-fitting onesies have a way of making even the most intimidating and powerful person look vulnerable. From the Commander of the National Army to one of the country’s most celebrated authors, it took a lifeguard to show these people as only people.

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It’s not easy being a politician. You spend years climbing up to your position of power, only to be upstaged by pups that take a shortcut by literally getting on top of your head. US president Barack Obama and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi have found this out the tough way, as imagined by Helsinski-based artist Emma Tryti.

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