Eva Gjaltema gives a glimpse into her most recent work: ’Sehnzucht’ and ‘Sehnzucht: The Remix’, where the series are based on the artist’s personal experience of becoming a mother, the contradictory nature of the event and the conflicting emotions it creates. Her work describes the awe at the incredible ’once...
Alec Soth: Gathered Leaves
FOMU is bringing the work of renowned Magnum photographer Alec Soth (US, °1969) to Belgium for the first time with the exhibition Gathered Leaves. This retrospective draws from four critical series from his oeuvre: Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), Niagara (2006), Broken Manual (2010) and Songbook (2014). Alec Soth is...
Interview with fine art photographer Brooke Shaden
Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the "Amish Country" until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with bachelor degrees in film and English. She began creating self-portraits for ease and to have...
Sarah Blesener: Borodino
Portraits of adolescents attending the Historical War Camp in Borodino, Moscow Oblast, Russia - summer of 2016. Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the...
Diane Vincent: I Join The Crystal-Eyed Turtle’s Hand
I Join The Crystal-Eyed Turtle's Hand is an invitation to open our imagination, following an age-old wise creature. It's offering to participate in reality through multiple layers, while listening to a polyphonic universe overflowed with colors. It can be seen as an experiment in being playful, light-hearted and magnanimous. Nature is...
Florian Amoser: Quantified Landscape
Quantified Landscape introduces an ongoing research project on the photographic transposition of space on a flat surface. Deep in the heart of underground galleries, I mapped out the relief by placing a motor-mounted laser on the ground. The light beam slowly sweeps the walls of the cave, thereby drawing a...
Caique Cunha: Williamsburg
“The streets are full of sweat in the mortar of your pavement”, according to the nineteenth century Brazilian writer, João do Rio, in his book, The Enchanting Soul of the Streets. “Williamsburg” is the final work after spending some months (2015) in the neighborhood streets of Brooklyn. New York City...
Interview with documentary photographer Julia Abzaltdinova
Julia Abzaltdinova - born in Ekaterinburg, Russia in 1984 in the family of photography lovers. She took an interest in photography when she was in high school. When she was a student at University, she attended «PhotoThursday» photo-club at the Metenkov Photography Museum. When she was 20 she has graduated...
PhotoBiography: Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) was a noted American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s - particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans and in glamour photography. As the first famous pioneer among black filmmakers, he...
Alfonse Van Besten: Autochrome Photos (1910s)
Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) was a painter and took full advantage of the possibilities of the new colour process. One can see that many of his autochromes were taken with a “painterly eye” e.g. Musing (Mrs.Van Besten) and Symphony in white. It was evident that he had a very good...