21/05/2026
Ambassadors of Memento Park
Who are they? Ordinary people with extraordinary skills and a will to create and share, so the world will be a better place, thanks to them. They are scholars, artists, professors, tourism professionals, travelers, thinkers, and doers engaged with or inspired by Memento Park's conceptual design. We show our gratitude in a series of social media content about them. Thank you all for what you do!
In this social media series, we will post about our ambassadors' current achievements, past publications, and create a think tank for our followers.
Gary Hussey is an Irish sociologist and research-led photographer based in Budapest. To date, his work has focused on the spatial aspects of power, conflict, and ideology. As such, his interdisciplinary academic work spans critical geography, social and political theory, and cultural studies. He has published on violence in the north of Ireland, as well as on contemporary politics, such as the politics of populism. His visually-led work also interrogates questions of how histories of power, conflict, and ideology shape our experience of everyday space.
Gary did his PhD at the National University of Ireland, Galway. In 2023- 2024, he did a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the School of Sociology, University College Dublin, Ireland. He was recently (2024-2025) a Fellow at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany, where he studied the materialities of populism in contemporary Hungary.
His ongoing photographic project, including his work on Memento Park, can found at
www.monochromaticintensities.com
