Five of our Futures Talents of 2019 will present their work at the exhibition ‘The Image is Our Voice’ in Amsterdam. Organized by Unseen Foundation and Melkweg Expo, the show opens on 6th of September (Friday) at Melkweg Expo. The five artists were selected by Unseen this year to join the Futures platform. They are: Eline Benjaminsen, Verena Blok, Pleun Gremmen, Eva Kreuger, and Kevin Osepa.

Five photographers, fives voices, five projects which raise questions about themes that span from cultural identity to socio-economic processes and politics. The selected photographers have one thing in common: they use images to question the world around them and propose challenging perspectives to their audience. Examining subjects that are hidden rather than distinctly visible, they are eager to engage with the photographic medium and stretch its borders.

In order to provide support to the young artists, Unseen Foundation has selected independent curator Iris Sikking to coach and advise them––whatever stage they might be at in the work process. At the end of this program, the resulting work is showcased in a group exhibition in Amsterdam.

THE IMAGE IS OUR VOICE
Melkweg Expo, Marnixstraat 409, Amsterdam
From 7 September to 13 October
Opening: 6 September, 18:00 - 22:00
Free entrance
More info: https://www.melkweg.nl/27485

After that, I had this idea to go to other defence fairs to show this global aspect of the arms trade, even though I had no idea how to fund all the travel costs. After travelling to South Korea for the next fair, I was lucky enough to win the German VG BildKunst Grant in 2018 and PHMuseum Grant 2019. So now, after 14 fairs on five continents, it feels pretty ordinary for me to walk around observing what’s happening.

The Polish Futures Talents Launch will be one of the main parts of the Night of Photography. it will take place during Fotofestiwal’s Opening Weekend - June 21st to June 24th. The venue of the Night of Photography will be the Piotrkowska Street - the longest street in Poland and one of the longest commercial thoroughfares in Europe. The Night of Photography will consist of 5 large format projections (slideshows) in the public space, presenting emerging European photographers. It will be organized in cooperation with other Futures members, the City of Lodz and the Lodz Events Center.

The Triennial of Photography Hamburg presents their five Futures Photography Talents of 2019 this Friday, July 12th, during the Sommernacht der Fotografie. The event will take place at the House of Photography/Deichtorhallen Hamburg, at 9pm. The artists will be introduced with a presentation of their work and participate in a talk with the chief-curator of the House of Photography, Ingo Taubhorn.

For the Futures Talents of 2019, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg selected five emerging artists: Lia Darjes, Johanna Maria Fritz, Nina Hansch, Lukas Heibges, and Alexander Kadow.

More information about the event: https://bit.ly/2XIS7pD

PROGRAMME
19.00 Opening Gute Aussichten - junge deutsche Fotografie
20.00 Start Sommernacht der Fotografie
21.00 Presentation Futures Talents

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Belgium is teeming with talented photographers in Europe. FOMU has used the pages of .tiff magazine to provide exposure for ten promising photographers per year since its inception in 2012. The magazine has since evolved into an international platform also possible thanks to the Futures platform.

During one month this summer, FOMU will show recent work by the following artists selected for .tiff 2019: Elena Aya Bundurakis, Bertrand Cavalier, Jeroen De Wandel, Ulla Deventer, Lionel Jusseret, Léonard Pongo, Maroussia Prignot & Valerio Alvarez, Titus Simoens, Egon Van Herreweghe & Ann Vincent.

PROGRAMME
7.00 PM Guest preview
Food and drinks in museum café Pixel
8.00 PM Official opening reception
Speeches by Elviera Velghe, director of FOMU and Luk Lemmens, president of De Museumstichting.
Followed by a reception with music by We Are Various Soundsystem.

Unseen Foundation exists alongside Unseen’s companies Unseen Amsterdam, Unseen Magazine and Unseen International. Unseen Foundation is an independent not-for-profit organisation that aims to increase the impact of artists, working with photography, on society. Unseen Foundation endeavours to launch initiatives to promote the work of emerging artists, with a specific focus on young talent.                                                      

The foundation is part of the platform since 2019 and it has been called to nominate 5 emerging talents based in the Netherlands.

For the selection process Unseen Foundation worked with six nominators. Each of them brought forward five names of artists that they would like see in Unseen Foundation’s talent selection. In a second step, Unseen together with Iris Sikking selected the final five talents.
                     
Nominators:
- Delphine Bledel, Artist, Researcher & Publisher
- Fleurie Kloostra, Curator Melkweg Expo
- Jenny Smets, Director of Photography Vrij Nederland
- Sara Blokland, Artist and Curator
- Taco Hidde Bakker, Writer
- Bertan Selim, Head of Grants & Collaborations Prince Claus Fund

The final 5 Dutch talents are Eline Benjaminsen,  Eva Kreuger, Kevin Osepa, Pleun Gremmen, Verena Blok.

The talents will be launched and presented to the audience on Thursday Sept 20th in Amsterdam in a public talk between them and the curators Iris Sikking and Amelie Schule, representing Unseen Amsterdam.

Starting at 18.00

#Spirituality, #Communities, #Rituals, #Cognition, #Metaphysics, #SupernaturalPhenomena, #Ghosts, #Specters - these are some of the topics which are in the spotlight of the 18th International Festival of Photography in Łódź. This year’s edition, which takes place on June, 13 – 30, will fill every single corner of the city with a variety of events and activities encouraging its audience to visit almost thirty international exhibits and new formerly inaccessible locations. The duration of the festival stretches over three weeks and happens to coincide with the long weekend in June.

The festival programme comprises eight solo shows and one group show that are divided into the three thematic sections. First of all, the festival unveils the projects related to spiritual communities, rituals and cultural roots of spirituality itself. Another section is devoted to the issue of scientific progress scouring for answers to metaphysical questions, to the rational approach to current spiritual exploration. Last but not least, selected art projects demonstrate attempts to convey the invisible and forge a connection with spirits through the creation of an image by the artists who adopt the role of intermediaries or alchemists of sorts.

As usual, the programme will be complemented by a series of workshops, photo-walks in the former factories, evening slideshows with live music, meetings and discussions held in the educational section co-created with the University of Lodz, as well as professional events, particularly Photo-Match – a completely different portfolio review. Hailed by the international community of photography events’ organizers as the trademark of Fotofestiwal, Photo-Match is open also to a wider audience. Finally, a profusion of films devoted to the main theme of the festival and medium of photography itself will be screened as part of our special film programme.

Over twenty accompanying exhibitions will be orchestrated by local gallery spaces, which encourage you to delve even deeper into the urban landscape. Our partners include: Book Art Museum, Municipal Art Gallery, Punkt Odbioru Sztuki, Mała Czarna Gallery, ASP Piotrkowska 68, Wschodnia Gallery, Central Museum of Textiles, Portrait Studio, Wi-MA and Lokal.

Opening of exhibitions in the amazing interiors of the former headquarters of the institutes of German and Roman studies at the University of Lodz. In the column hall and old lecture halls we will see three exhibitions, and then we will dance on the dance floor with the organizers of the most dance cycle in the city – Jazztko. Throughout the night, the corridors of the building will display projects by: Katarzyna Wąsowska, Iacopo Pasqui, Elena Subach, Patrycja Wojtas, Karolina Wojtas (talents nominated by Fotofestiwal to the Futures platform).

PhotoESPAÑA selects for the second year a group of artists to be part of the @futuresphotography platform, an initiative formed by twelve recognized institutions from all over Europe. The objective is to give mobility, visibility and international projection to artists from all over the continent and also to create a network, which grows every year, of professionals, markets and audiences. The five visual artists selected show their interest through different formats such as video, painting or installation # PHE19

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Photo Romania is opening its 2019 edition and celebrate their nominees for Futures with multiple events and exhibitions happening in the town of Cluj in Romania.
- @ Casino Urban Cultural Center: Exhibition of Javier Corso's project "Matagi". The Spanish photographer is one of the nominees of 2019 for Futures
- In the amazing frame of the Salina Turda, a natural salt mine 30 km from Cluj, the exhibition of works by Oana Stoian and Catalin Anghel
- In the Wincon gallery,  the Greek photographer and Futures artist Panagiotis Papoutsis is exhibiting his work "The Past of Things"

CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia is delighted to present the five emerging artists selected as part of the European FUTURES programme and the activities to be held therein throughout 2019. The artists selected by Walter Guadagnini, director of the Turinese institute, and by Giangavino Pazzola, programme coordinator, together with a group of international experts are: Domenico Camarda (La Spezia, 1990), Francesca Catastini (Lucca, 1982), Paolo Ciregia (Viareggio, 1987), Irene Fenara (Bologna, 1990), Giaime Meloni (Cagliari, 1984).

The five artists selected will be involved in activities of exhibition, training and networking on both a national and international level, on the basis of a detailed programme, full of moments of reflection and comparison with artists, curators, gallerists and collectors.

THE 2019 CAMERA PROGRAMME

The calendar of activities includes:
- lectio magistralis by Adam Broomberg at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;  workshop with Adam Broomberg from the duo of artists Broomberg&Chanarin, and a meeting with national and international curators at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;
- lectio magistralis by Joan Fontcuberta at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;
- five study grants for a module of the Summer Masterclass in Visual Storytelling that the ICP – International Center of Photography in New York will hold at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia;
- participation in Unseen Amsterdam, with activities of an exhibitive, training and relational nature;
- lectio magistralis with an international artist at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (to be defined);
- workshop with international artist and a meeting with national and international curators at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (to be defined);
- site-specific exhibition activities at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (to be defined).
FUTURES (EPP – European Photography Platform) is a platform supported by the European Union focusing on the mapping and support of emerging artists with a view to increasing scope for contact between them and the market. As well as CAMERA, the partners of FUTURES are the UNSEEN Foundation (Amsterdam), FOMU Fotomuseum (Antwerp), PhotoEspaña (Madrid), British Journal of Photography (London), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (Budapest), Foundation of Visual Education (Lodz), Photo Romania Festival (Cluj), Photo Ireland Foundation (Dublin), Festival d’Hyeres (Hyeres), Triennale der Photographie (Hamburg) and the Calvert Journal (London).

FUTURES is co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

The Capa Center is committed to developing the possibilities of Hungarian photography and therefore considers it important that more and more Hungarian photographers take part in domestic and international programs. With this intent, the Budapest Portfolio Review event will be organized for the third time between April 12 and 13, 2019.

The purpose of the professional event is to get participants to consult with renowned Hungarian and foreign experts about their images and to get feedback on their work. The consultants are recognized representatives of the Hungarian and international photography profession (creative artists, gallerists, art historians, head of institutions, agencies, festivals, organizations).

Date of the event‍
Friday, April 12, 2019 10am – 5pm
Saturday, April 13, 2019 10am – 5pm (assessment and announcement at 7pm)

Venue
Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, 8 Nagymező Street, Budapest, Hungary 1065
Studio and Project Room

Budapest Portfolio Review consultants
Olivia Arthur photographer, MAGNUM Photos
Lajos Csontó photographer, visual artist
Irina Chmyneva artistic director, PhotoVista International Festival of Photography
Judit Gellér curator, Capa Center
Angel Luis Gonzalez CEO, PhotoIreland Foundation
Luca Gőbölyös DLA artist, associate professor
Zsolt Kozma artistic director, Inda Gallery
Rafał Milach photographer, MAGNUM Photos
Szilvia Mucsy photographer, director of Budapest Photo Festival
Zita Sárvári director, Deák Erika Gallery
Simona Vidmar senior curator, UGM Marior Art Gallery
Duncan Wooldridge Artist, Writer and Curator, University of the Arts London