FUTURES is the European Photography Platform, bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across the world. We aim to add long term value in empowering early and mid-career photographers – launching initiatives to promote their work and granting them access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets and audiences.
Who we are
FUTURES encourages new and adventurous ways of enhancing the vital relationship between artists and the industry by creating an ecosystem that allows and stimulates cross-pollination, whilst simultaneously becoming the go-to source for emerging photography worldwide. Starting in 2017, by Menno Liauw in his capacity as a partner of the Amsterdam-based creative agency Vandejong, FUTURES has now grown to an independent non-profit foundation with its headquarters in Amsterdam at the FUTURES Hub, which serves as an office, residency, and exhibition space. The platform now has 20 members covering the full scope of the European contemporary photography landscape.
How it works
Every year, the FUTURES members nominate a group of artists to join the platform. By bringing together a wealth of resources and curatorial expertise, each talent selected by the members gains access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets and audiences. The platform aims to stimulate the photographic economy from the bottom up by expanding the market. Being selected within Futures is a proof of quality of the artists and increases their commercial opportunities.
What we do
FUTURES organizes a series of events across Europe within each of its member countries, online activities to professional and artistic development, and collaboration between art professional and our talents. Every year, they are all brought together at the FUTURES main event in the second semester. In this annual event, FUTURES offers workshops, portfolio reviews, coaching sessions, exhibitions and more.
FUTURES Members
The platform currently draws from and collaborates with a consortium of the following art institutions across Europe to amplify emerging talents in photography: CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), and Centre de la photographie Genève (CH) and our research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT)
