I Will Be Wolf by Bertien van Manen reveals daily life in metropolitan Hungary in 1975 under Soviet occupation. Her photographs of commuters, grocers, chemists, café workers, and street vendors contain all the hallmarks of a bygone era, before the grip of globalisation made its mark on the Soviet Bloc. Imbued with an air of ambivalent nostalgia, the book takes its title from the poem Grief by Hungarian poet Jozsef Attila. I Will Be Wolf presents an early example of van Manen's unconventional image-making style in a beautiful volume compiled under the editorial direction of renowned British photographer Stephen Gill.
