Paul van Kempen captures with his camera the loneliness of a street in construction while soccerfans cheer for their team on television.

Het Public Land Survey System, ofwel het Jefferson Grid, is het systeem waarmee landmeters eind achttiende eeuw het midden en Westen van de Verenigde Staten in keurige vierkanten verdeelden van exact één bij één mijl. Maar omdat de aarde rond is, liepen de lijnen naar het noorden taps toe. Daarom moest het raster gecorrigeerd worden: grid corrections brachten om de 20 mijl theorie en praktijk weer bij elkaar.

Toen vlieger- en luchtfotograaf Gerco de Ruijter tijdens een residentie in Wichi...

The Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining region, bordering on Belgium, is part of northern Europe’s historical centre of heavy industry, which extends as far as the Ruhr area in Germany. With the end of coal mining in the 1980s, the Lille region transitioned to new economic activities, particularly within the cultural and creative industries, taking advantage of its strategic location midway between Paris, London and Brussels. After de-industrialisation and the 1984 opening of the Lewarde Mining Museu...

In Colonial Legacies, Gabriella Nugent examines a generation of contemporary artists born or based in the Congo whose lens-based art attends to the afterlives and mutations of Belgian colonialism in postcolonial Congo. Focusing on three artists and one artist collective, Nugent analyses artworks produced by Sammy Baloji, Michèle Magema, Georges Senga and Kongo Astronauts, each of whom offers a different perspective onto this history gleaned from their own experiences. In their photography an...

Throughout the apartheid era South Africa maintained a wide-reaching propaganda apparatus. At its core was the information service that strongly capitalised on photography to visually articulate the minority regime’s racist political messages, promote Afrikaner nationalism, and consolidate white rule. By unearthing a substantial corpus of photographs that so far have been hidden in archives, this book offers a distinctive perspective on the institutional context of the regime’s photograph...

Magistraal overzicht van de studiofotografie door Stephan Vanfleteren

“Dit boek bewijst dat Vanfleteren het oude licht zozeer heeft geïnternaliseerd dat hij het zonder de hulp van lampen of de zon kan laten schijnen.”

— Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

De voorbije twaalf jaar fotografeerde Stephan Vanfleteren (1969) zeer intens in zijn daglichtstudio thuis. Atelier is de verzameling van dat werk. Zowel in daglicht als met kunstlicht gaat Vanfleteren op zoek naar schoonheid en betekenis. Grijze t...

For almost twenty years the Dutch artists Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye have been exploring issues as diverse as anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and culture as a means of adaptation and re-enactment.

The publication EVIDENCE is published on the occasion of their first major solo exhibition EVIDENCE in Belgium, which was from 13 May to 16 July 2017 in Argos, Brussels. The method of editing used in their collective film work has been applied in this...

The work of Thomas Kuijpers always emerges from a current event, or series of current events, which he uses to investigate how the stories told about these events influence our daily lives. To do this, he collects all kinds of material: newspapers, posters, fragments of conversations, YouTube videos, and Twitter comments. From this act of collecting, new connections appear, as well as insights into how narratives about specific subjects are shaped. From this foundation of interconnected subje...

Photography from an Arcadian universe on the other side of reality, inhabited by Sapphic guitar goddesses, dressed in denim, lace and leather, otherwordly breadstick fairies and erotically indefinable witches.

AMSTERDAM 744 - FOTOCOLLAGES VAN JOS HOUWELING

Amsterdam bestaat 744 jaar en dat vieren wij met deze ontspannen kijk op de stad. Dit boek is een speels vervolg op het 700 CENTENBOEK, dat Jos Houweling in 1975 maakte ter gelegenheid van het 700-jarig bestaan van Nederlands hoofdstad. Voor het 700 Centenboek keek Jos Houweling naar het straatmeubilair, voor AMSTERDAM 744 verplaatste hij zich in de hoofden van de toeristen. Wat hopen zij te zien? Een reis van hoogtepunt naar hoogtepunt, met miss...