Photography | Caleb Charland | Where art and science meet, in the apple orchard

by Fenja Sepers

posted 25/12/2011

category Inspiration, Photography

As a part of their Christmas card the Michael Mazzeo Gallery in New York wrote: “This may not be your typical holiday totem, but we find it quite festive nonetheless. In typical Charlandesque fashion, Caleb brightens the night with a lamp powered by… apples!” Caleb Charland is a photographer who explores the domestic space and investigates the mysterious [...]

Photography | My Africa | Rianne van Duijnhoven

by Fenja Sepers

posted 10/12/2011

category Inspiration, Photography

Rianne van Duijnhoven‘s series My Africa inspired me. Intense images of African life, other then the images I know. Light plays an important part in the work and creates a strong and emotional image language, which touches the soul. At least mine.. Rianne van Duijnhoven graduated cum laude at the Photo Academy Amsterdam and is a New [...]

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Art | IGIRAMA | William Verstraeten

by Fenja Sepers

posted 01/12/2011

category Art, Design, Expo, Photography

I was really amazed when I heard artist William Verstraeten talking on TedX Amsterdam. An idea that seems so simple, but what a staggering result: the IGIRAMA, a massive photo atop the South Tower of the World Trade Centre constructed in a dome on top of a mirror. This forms a true sky walk as [...]

Expo | RijksakademieOPEN 2011 | Amsterdam

by Fenja Sepers

posted 23/11/2011

category Expo

  Many artists are resident in our beautiful city Amsterdam. During RijksakademieOPEN 2011, over 50 resident artists from all over the World open teir studios. The diversity of their backgrounds and the broad range of artist’s positions offer a unique view on the latest developments in contemporary art. Take a look in the weekend of [...]

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Photography | Future of the photography Museum | Foam_Amsterdam

by Fenja Sepers

posted 23/11/2011

category Expo, Photography

Untill 7 december 2011 the Foam_Amsterdam will show 4 visions on the future of the photography museum. Lauren Cornell, Jefferson Hack, Erik Kessels, Alison Nordström each show there vision on ‘what’s next’.   Tweet

Design | Design products from the Sahara | Taragalte

by Fenja Sepers

posted 07/11/2011

category Design, Inspiration

Taragalte concept was born out of a partnership between the local team with local foundations as well as national and international institutions, all wishing to make a contribution to genuine development of the Moroccon Sahara region. On 11-11-2011 the third Taragalte festival will be held, in the south of Morocco, in the Sahara. The full [...]

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Design | Patient Gardener | Slow design

by Fenja Sepers

posted 31/10/2011

category Design, Inspiration

The Patient Gardener is an project that consists of 10 cherry trees that have been planted in an 8-meter diameter ring. Once they begin to mature, the architects at the Stockholm-based Visiondivision are going to prune, bend, pull and regulate the light of the trees to produce a comfortable and serene space. Intriguingly, the installment, [...]

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Photography | Old New York | Weegee

by Fenja Sepers

posted 31/10/2011

category Photography

He captured tenement infernos, car crashes, and gangland executions. He found washed-up lounge singers and teenage murder suspects in paddy wagons and photographed them at their most vulnerable – or, as he put it, their most human. He caught couples kissing on their beach blankets on Coney Island and the late-night voyeurs on lifeguard stands [...]

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Expo | Amsterdam Museum Night * N8 | 5 November 2011

by Fenja Sepers

posted 24/10/2011

category Art, Expo, Photography

N8 – Museum Night Amsterdam 5 November 2011 Every first Saturday of November, Amsterdam museum life shifts from day to night. All museums stay open until 2am, and collections are spiced up with music, performances, drinks, meet and greets, installations and other art related activities. It is at least one of our favourite nights in [...]

Photography | Iconic Photographs | Steve McCurry

by Fenja Sepers

posted 19/10/2011

category Photography

The Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, California is going to exhibit the work of one of our favorite photographers Steve McCurry. The exhibition, Iconic Photographs display McCurry’s most prominent images throughout his career. Iconic Photographs highlights McCurry’s ability to be in the right place at the right time and show us the blurred, but interesting lines between [...]

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Photography | The dog’s master | Pieter Hugo

by Fenja Sepers

posted 16/10/2011

category Photography

Pieter Hugo was born 1976 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture and whose work engages with both documentary and art traditions with a focus on African communities. Pieter Hugo: “These photographs came about after a friend emailed me an image taken on [...]

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Art | Kolonihavehus | Tom Fruin

by Fenja Sepers

posted 16/10/2011

category Art

New York artist Tom Fruin’s outdoor sculpture Kolonihavehus in the plaza of the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen has the appearance of a friendly and colorful stained-glass house, yet it also evokes thoughts of churches and Charles Rennie Macintosh. Fruin’s sculpture is constructed of a thousand reclaimed pieces of plexiglass ranging in size from 2×2 to [...]

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Art | What to Say about The Other

by Fenja Sepers

posted 15/10/2011

category Art

What To Say About The Other are the results of Janneke and Hillie de Rooij. In this publication they define image as a visual prejudice. The images spread by the media can be experienced as the absolute truth. This publication tries to find out what these images are, that we have of the other. By showing the [...]

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Photography | Scarlett Hooft Graafland | Huis van Marseille

by Fenja Sepers

posted 07/10/2011

category Expo, Photography

Scarlett Hooft Graafland Huis van Marseille Until 11 Dec 2011 ‘Sometimes I just get an idea, and if I think it’s really good then I have to make it happen, whatever it takes’ Scarlett Hooft Graafland is a sculptor and photographer. Her first ever large solo retrospective, held in Huis Marseille, presents her photographs of [...]

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Expo | Talent | Foam_Amsterdam

by Fenja Sepers

posted 03/10/2011

category Expo, Photography

Talent Foam_Amsterdam – Vijzelstraat 78 (new location) 14 October – 15 December 2011 The new issue #28 / Talent is released, last Thursday September 15. In this fifth annual Talent issue of Foam Magazine, we highlight work from fifteen young talents in a diverse range of photographic work. The shortlist was selected from over 800 portfolio [...]

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