The artists nominated by
Peggy Van Mosselaar’s practice circulates around the subjects of identity, mental health and care of the elderly people. She is a participating artist in FOTODOK's most recent exhibition Part of Me… Shaping Mental Spaces. The Tali Pusat project is a vulnerable and multilayered story about her mother, revealing how migration and colonial histories can influence one's personal life.
Pablo Lerma participated in an earlier exhibition at FOTODOK: Pass It On. Private Stories, Public Histories. Since then, we've collaborated on many levels. Often using archives at his starting point, Lerma's practice researches the concept of masculinity, investigating the lack of representation of gay men and the queer community throughout photographic history.
Walter Costa took part in FOTODOK’s Lighthouse talent program as a graduate from one of the Netherlands's many art academies. Trained as a pilot, the artist later landed in the field of photography; Costa's Autolykos Collection project is a visual investigation of 'the looting and online trafficking of archeological artefacts - a growing transnational crime'.
Giya Makondo-Wills is a British-South African documentary photographer based in Utrecht, where she moved a few years ago. Her oeuvre explores race, colonialism and systems of power. With Boarderliners, Makondo-Wills employed portraiture to consider what it means to be mixed race in the UK, collecting the stories of people she photographed.
Thana Faroe's project, How Shall We Greet The Sun, charts the personal stories of young women living in the Netherlands. Many of these women, including the artist, must (re)construct their identities, bringing their heritage and memories to new cultural and political contexts. Faroq is also nominated by Der Greif.
FOTODOK values projects that are rooted in the living experiences of their makers. The works we highlight reflect photography's ability to reveal what might otherwise be invisible: be it the representation of queer families in (historical) archives; the emotional landscape of refugee women; the illegal antique art market; or the impact of enduring colonial power structures.
Peggy Van Mosselaar’s practice circulates around the subjects of identity, mental health and care of the elderly people. She is a participating artist in FOTODOK's most recent exhibition Part of Me… Shaping Mental Spaces. The Tali Pusat project is a vulnerable and multilayered story about her mother, revealing how migration and colonial histories can influence one's personal life.
Pablo Lerma participated in an earlier exhibition at FOTODOK: Pass It On. Private Stories, Public Histories. Since then, we've collaborated on many levels. Often using archives at his starting point, Lerma's practice researches the concept of masculinity, investigating the lack of representation of gay men and the queer community throughout photographic history.
Walter Costa took part in FOTODOK’s Lighthouse talent program as a graduate from one of the Netherlands's many art academies. Trained as a pilot, the artist later landed in the field of photography; Costa's Autolykos Collection project is a visual investigation of 'the looting and online trafficking of archeological artefacts - a growing transnational crime'.
Giya Makondo-Wills is a British-South African documentary photographer based in Utrecht, where she moved a few years ago. Her oeuvre explores race, colonialism and systems of power. With Boarderliners, Makondo-Wills employed portraiture to consider what it means to be mixed race in the UK, collecting the stories of people she photographed.
Thana Faroe's project, How Shall We Greet The Sun, charts the personal stories of young women living in the Netherlands. Many of these women, including the artist, must (re)construct their identities, bringing their heritage and memories to new cultural and political contexts. Faroq is also nominated by Der Greif.
FOTODOK values projects that are rooted in the living experiences of their makers. The works we highlight reflect photography's ability to reveal what might otherwise be invisible: be it the representation of queer families in (historical) archives; the emotional landscape of refugee women; the illegal antique art market; or the impact of enduring colonial power structures.
Giya Makondo-Wills is a British-South African documentary photographer. Makondo-Wills is concerned with identity, race, colonisation, the western gaze and systems of power. Her practice continues to develop and pushes to engage and collaborate with marginalised communities. She holds a BA (hons) and a MA in Documentary Photography from the University of South Wales (formerly Newport). In 2021 she began teaching on the BA Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). She lives and works between the U.K and The Netherlands. She also works with other educational institutions as a visiting lecturer. She has exhibited her work internationally, some highlights include; Lagos, Johannesburg, Dusseldorf, Milan and Paris as well as widely within the UK. Featured in several ‘graduate of the year’ profiles, she has won an IFOR documentary photography award and been shortlisted for other prizes.She was nominated for the 2019 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass and in 2018 selected as one of the '31 women to watch out for' by the British Journal of Photography. Her work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Royal Photographic Society journal, It’sNiceThat, Unseen Magazine and Source Photographic Review, amongst others. Her first photobook was released in 2020 They Came From The Water While The World Watched is available via the Lost Light Recordings. In 2022-2023, Makondo-Wills is commissioned by FOTODOK to produce the body of work about Utrecht communities, with which she will partake in a group exhibition opening FOTODOK at the new location of De Machinerie.
Pablo Lerma is a Spanish research-based artist, educator and publisher based in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
His work has been exhibited at Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Copeland Gallery (UK), IHLIA Heritage (NL), Deli Gallery (US), FOTODOK (NL), PhotoEspaña (ES), The Finnish Museum of Photography (FI), Flowers Gallery (US), Konstanet (EE), Centro Huarte (ES), New York University (US), Fotoweek D.C. (US), SCAN International Festival of Photography (ES), La Fábrica (ES), and Fundació Foto Colectania (ES) among others. His publications are in collections including the Guggenheim Museum (US), Museum of Modern Art – MoMA (US), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMoMA (US), Aeromoto (MX), Centro de la Imagen (MX), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (US), and the International Center of Photography in New York (US), among others. He has been awarded with the Cherryhurst House Fellowship MFA Houston (US), Grand Prize of Curators Award PDN (US), Fundació Guasch-Coranty (ES) and Sala d’Art Jove (ES). He has been selected for Pla(t)form FotoMuseum Winterthur (CH) and nominated for the First Book Award MACK Editions (UK), Critical Mass (US), and PDN 30’s (US). His work has been featured on Trigger FOMU (BE), Lens Culture (US), Photomonitor (UK), Unseen Platform (NL), British Journal for Photography (UK), Ain’t Bad Magazine (US), New York Foundation for the Arts (US), PDN Online (US) and PhotoInter China (CH).
Peggy van Mosselaar is a documentary and visual storyteller motivated by curiosity and human interest. Van Mosselaar creates photographic and video works based upon the stories and memories of the people she meets. The artist graduated from PhotoAcademy, Amsterdam and Foto Vakschool, Rotterdam. Peggy has exhibited at Loods 6, Amsterdam; Museum Hilversum, Hilversum; and SKVR, Rotterdam. In August-November 2022, she will present her work in FOTODOK’s group exhibition Part of Me… Shaping Mental Spaces.
Thana Faroq is a Yemeni photographer and educator based in the Netherlands. She works with photography, texts, sound, and the physicality of the image itself, as a way to respond to the changes that have been shaping and defining her life, and sense of belonging both in Yemen and the Netherlands. Thana's positioning as a photographer is informed by her reflections on her subject matter, tuning in to other people’s lived experiences with which she continually grows familiar. She also increasingly seeks her own story in the frame. Thana was a recipient of the 2018 inaugural Open Society Foundation Fellowship Grant and Exhibition and the 2019 Arab Documentary Fund supported by the Prince Claus Fund and Magnum Foundation and Zenith magazine reporting grant. In 2020, she published her first book, I don't Recognize Me in the Shadows The book was shortlisted for the Lucie Photobook Prize 2021, and it has also been listed as one of the Interesting Artist & Photographic Books for 2021 by the PhotoBook Journal. Thana received her BA in Government and International Relations from Clark University, and an MA in Photography and Society at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
After studying aeronautics in Italy, Walter Costa realised that the pilot career was less “romantic” than he thought. In 2009, while completing a degree in Politics and International Studies at Complutense University in Madrid, he started attending photography courses at Blank Paper school, where he also got involved in publications and editing. Studying their postgraduate programme in documentary photography gave him the opportunity to start merging image-making with his interest in visually investigating social issues in relation to power imbalances. Love and curiosity made him move to São Paulo in 2013, where besides working as a news and commercial photographer he started teaching editing and bookmaking while collaborating with several Brazilian and international authors in the development and editing of their photobook projects. In 2017 Costa founded Havaiana Papers, a distribution platform aimed at improving the circulation of Brazilian photobooks. As a curator, he was invited to organize a series of performatic lectures about photobooks for SOLAR Fotofestival (Fortaleza, BR) in December 2018 and was the guest curator of the sixth edition of En CMYK-Photobook Meeting organized by the Montevideo Center of Photography (UY) in March 2019. In 2018 Costa came back to Europe to join the first cohort of the MA Photography&Society at KABK/Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. With the aim of researching, discussing and finding new ways to use photography as a tool for public debate, he completed the program with a wider and more multi-disciplinary practice. In 2020-2021, the artist took part in FOTODOK’s talent support programme Lighthouse. Still based in The Netherlands, Costa keeps editing photobook projects while teaching at KABK and developing his personal projects.
