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March 2019

SCREENDUMP #2

The Screendump project is an ongoing investigation and exploration of photography in the virtual world. In Screendump #1 (2011) the use of Google Street View was examined as a source of material for artists. In Screendump #2, the authors continue their exploration of the virtual photography with a closer look on the appropriation of photos found online. The publication shows the work of artists that run off with footage from amateurs. The overwhelming amount of online pictures cha
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March 2019

WOMEN WE HAVE NOT LOST YET

Woman We Have Not Lost Yet tells the stories of those who lived through the crisis in Syria. On 26 April 2015, the radical Islamic opposition announced the ‘Great Attack’ on Aleppo. Young people from various ethnicities and religions, former participants of Art Camping, gathered in Le Pont gallery. In this artistic and intellectual safe haven, created by photographer and organiser Issa Touma, they could find comfort in each other. The fighting lasted an entire week. Tra
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May 2019

IMAGES D’UN MONDE FLOTTANT

The series « Images of a floating world » originates from contemplation, astonishment for what we see and reconsideration of the perceptual ambiguity that manifests itself in the landscape. Its compositions are characterized by a lack of perspective and shadows, round shapes with smooth contours, images that move inward through the surface and then sink into the illusion of the image. The landscape becomes an intangible but transparent image, mysterious and full of many echoes in oth
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March 2019

KITCHEN PORTRAITS

Erik Klein Wolterink explores kitchens of various ethnic groups within the city of Amsterdam. For this project he mapped these kitchens in a systematic, almost maniacal way. Every shelf, every cup, every tool is photographed in the way that the original user had left it in his/her kitchen. The result is a remarkable detailed documentary about cultural habits. Linda Roodenburg wrote an essay on this topic, that is included in the book.
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March 2019

OUTSKIRTS

A hallucinatory night walk in the outskirts of Tokyo, where sleepy suburbia emerges as otherworldly dreamscape. The occasional eerie appearance of a girl evokes riveting imageries: could this be the backdrop for a nocturnal crime scene? Or are we drawn into a tale of irretrievable loss and love?
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June 2019

GOOD BOY – 0372

This project documents Sudan, the last white rhinoceros of North Africa. Sudan lived his life inside the Prague zoo, before being transferred to Kenya for reproduction and specie preservation. Sudan lives under armed protection. Giovanna Silva spent ten days in his wildlife preserve, following him from a close distance. The book, entitled Good Boy – the way the guards call the rhinoceros, this lullaby which endlessly accompanied Giovanna's days with the rhino – 0372, his breeding number, i
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