tim van dijk
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Mountains, Memories, and Magnitude
marina caneveMarch 16th, 2020No mountain has ever moved, but they just appear as if they could crush an entire village to nothing but dust without any remorse. At the same time, they seem to look over us, as colossal...
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Over.State
ilias georgiadisFebruary 19th, 2020Over.State is the first photographic project from Ilias Georgiadis (1990, Greece). It is a personal story of a young and lost person who is searching for freedom and love - an effort to explain the...
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The Trap
vincent desaillyFebruary 14th, 2020The word ‘trap’ has multiple definitions but as a music genre, associated with hip hop, it has seen an explosive growth most recently, with artists appearing on top 40 charts all across the globe. However, as also becomes clear in this book by Vincent Desailly (1989, France), the roots of ‘trap’...
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Fukushima Now
benjamin kisFebruary 5th, 2020Benjamin Kis (1986, Germany) started out as an autodidact, self-trained artist, followed by obtaining a Bachelor of the Arts in Munich. His main focus is on documentary photography and portraits, and he is often drawn to stories that are not widely accessible.One of these “behind closed doors...
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RoXY, 30 Years: An Interview with Cleo Campert
cleo campertFebruary 3rd, 2020interviewCleo Campert (b. 1963, Netherlands) started photographing club nights at the infamous RoXY in 1989, and then continued to work as a party photographer throughout the years. In 2015 and 2016 she documented the Dutch festival culture, focusing on both the crowded events and the serene landscapes in...
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Exhibition: ADORNED - The Fashionable Show at Foam
various artistsJanuary 9th, 2020eventsUntil 11 March 2020, Foam Museum Amsterdam presents Adorned - The Fashionable Show. Although the title might suggest so, the show is not purely centred around the concepts of fashion or what we wear. Rather, the main focus is on the notions of culture and identity, which continue to evolve over...
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Juan Brenner - Insidia
juan brennerDecember 13th, 2019For Insidia, a personal project, Guatemala-born photographer Juan Brenner revisits his past after 10 years of sobriety. It altogether reflects on his years of addiction to drugs, night of wandering and the according chaos – and all the absurdities such a state of being brings along.We see cell...
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Bieke Depoorter at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
bieke depoorterNovember 21st, 2019eventsFrom November 22, 2019 to February 16, 2020 the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf is showing the work of five series from Magnum photographer Bieke Depoorter (b. 1986, Belgium). This constitutes the most comprehensive solo exhibition of the photographer to date.Across these five different projects Depoorter...
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Obake
celia hayNovember 20th, 2019The work of Célia Hay (b. 1991, France) questions image production with a highly physical approach to the image. She is interested in what happens between individuals during the shooting of images, and aims to capture their interaction and the deeper connection at that very moment. Hay’s images...
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Swimming Class and Jungle Bees
jurre rompaNovember 7th, 2019Jurre Rompa (The Netherlands, 1990) grew up in Amsterdam and is specialized in portrait and documentary photography. Here he worked for a dutch film distributor and then moved to the island of Zanzibar for six months where he started his career as a photographer. He started his own photography...
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The Collective Landscape
eddo hartmannNovember 4th, 2019It has become extremely difficult to protect the Dutch landscape since pieces of land are claimed by multiple parties at once, while there is only limited space in the small country. In the battle for this limited space, the economically weak are given the least priority.For The Collective...
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Dark Waters
daniel tchetchikNovember 1st, 2019Since the beginning of the 1990s, countless refugees have tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to leave North Africa and to reach the safe havens of Europe. Some were successful in doing so, while others met their fate in the water. Dark Waters by Daniel Tchetchik (b. Israel) is...
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Red Orange: An interview with Delaney Allen
delaney allenOctober 31st, 2019interviewIn the project Red Orange, Delaney Allen (United States) takes on the genre of American road trip photography, following the likes of great names such as William Eggleston and Walker Evans. GUP asked him about this project and his two years on the roads of California.The title of your latest book...
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Fictions Based on Truth: An interview with Evelyn Bencicova
evelyn bencicovaOctober 29th, 2019interviewEvelyn Bencicova (b. Bratislava, 1992) is a visual creative specialising in photography and art direction. Informed by her background in fine art and new media studies (University for Applied Arts, Vienna), Bencicova’s practice combines her interest in contemporary culture with academic research...
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Creatures
marta blueOctober 16th, 2019"I feel a strange sense of melancholy when I look at my photographs. As if they represent moments that I did not necessarily experience, distant moments, which generate contrasting emotions, oscillating between my present and my past." Marta Blue (b. 1985, Italy) specialises in self-portraiture,...
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Except the Clouds
berangère fromontOctober 14th, 2019Living in uncertain times ignites the desire in humans to resist or to revolt. In Except the Clouds, Berangère Fromont (France) brings us to a philosophical contemplation of chaos, enhancing the notion of resistance present in each of us.Athens is an oxymoron city: its flamboyant mythological...
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Ganga Ma: An Interview with Giulio di Sturco
giulio di sturcoOctober 14th, 2019interviewOver the course of ten years, Giulio Di Sturco (b.1979, Italy) travelled more than 4,000 km following the Ganges from its source in the Himalayas in India to its delta in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. The trip resulted in the book Ganga Ma (published by GOST Books), consisting of a series of...
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I Walk Towards the Sun Which Is Always Going Down
alan huckOctober 10th, 2019“On a far wandering walk a thousand usable thoughts occur to me,” writes Robert Walser, “and without walking, I would be able to collect neither observations nor studies.” In the image-text book I Walk Toward the Sun Which Is Always Going Down (2019), Alan Huck (United States) draws on literature...
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In Guns We Trust
jean françois bouchardOctober 7th, 2019Car wrecks ridden by flying bullets, exploded barrels, plants that have been torched to ashes and firearm enthusiasts are the main subjects in the most recent project by Jean-François Bouchard (b. 1968, Canada). In Guns We Trust is set in The Big Sandy in the western desert of Arizona, the...
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The Anarchist Citizenship: An interview with Nadine Stijns
nadine stijnsamal alhaagOctober 4th, 2019interviewPhotographer Nadine Stijns (b. 1977, The Netherlands) and researcher Amal Alhaag (b. 1983, Egypt) have been collaborating closely with Somali artists such as photographer Mustafa Saeed (b. 1989, Somaliland) for some years. Together they are investigating the Republic of Somaliland: a...
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