BredaPhoto 2016 programme booklet by BredaPhoto

15 Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; 30 October 2016

BredaPhoto international photofestival

festival programme

BredaPhoto international photofestival 15 September— 30 October 2016

foreword → p3 practical information → p4 photographers + locations → p9 photographers in the spotlight → p29 special activities → p55

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Welcome to the seventh edition of BredaPhoto! In this magazine, we will guide you past the 73 photo graphers and artists exhibiting at this festival. Discover their work in more than 25 exhibitions across Breda; you’ll even find photos along the canals. There are also plenty of lectures, meetings with photographers and activities for all ages. This year’s theme YOU is about self-reliance. It’s a word you might have heard of late. People should learn to take care of them selves instead of lean on the government. We are curious about the effects. Does it lead to creativity and new initiatives? Or does it lead to inequality? And how does that differ per country? Photographers from across the globe were inspired by this year’s theme. Amongst them are celebrated names like Michael Wolf, Bryan Schutmaat and Magnum-photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Carl De Keyzer. But you will also discover new talent. We’ve worked together with art academies from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. We’re also proud to present The Absent State, a collabo ration with the renowned World Press Photo agency. We’ve invited five photographers and five writers from five continents to engage in this special project. Overwhelmed by this jam-packed program? Consider buying our catalogue, it contains photos and backgrounds of all the photographers so you can relive the festival highlights at home. We wish you a pleasant festival! The BredaPhoto team

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Festival locations

Accessibility

BredaPhoto is located in two lively areas: the historic city c entre and the upcoming Belcrum area. The fifteen festival locations are open Tuesday through Sunday, from 10.00 to 17.00.

Most festival locations are within a maximum walking distance of twenty minutes.

Tip: download the BredaPhoto map at bredaphoto.nl on your smartphone and use your GPS to find your way around the festival.

Borrow a bike: There is a bike borrowing option at: X Stadsgalerij 12 De Faam 10 Belcrum Beach

Bike parking: Park your bike safely at one of the 076fietst parking spaces. These locations are marked on the map.

Tickets

Contact

Passe-partout: access to all festival locations, exhibitions,

For up to date information visit bredaphoto.nl, our Facebook or Twitter account. Flyers with weekly programmes can be found at:

most activities and the boat trip. See special activities → p55, for information about separate ticket sales. Available at the ticket coun ter in the Stadsgalerij and at NS train station Breda: – € 17,50 – € 16,00 (at bredaphoto.nl)

Discount with Museumjaarkaart, Bredapas or CJP-card, and for children aged 4 to 12: – € 12,50 – € 11,00 (at bredaphoto.nl)

Info counter Stadsgalerij: Stadsgalerij Oude Vest 34

Info counter train station: NS train station Breda

opening hours:

Tuesday through Sunday 10.00–17.00

at the ticket counter

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

STADSGALERIJ

Information and heart of the festival

Tours Experienced tour guides will take you to Breda’s Museum and the outdoor exhibition in the Chassépark, or to Belcrum and the old candy factory De Faam. People with a visual handicap may request the ‘Especially for YOU’-tour that stimulates the other senses. The photographers of The Absent State will give tours in the weekend of 1 & 2 October. Interested in a tour? With a passe-partout, you can join a group every Saturday and Sunday at 14.00, or book a separate tour: rondleidingen@bredaphoto.nl

The Stadsgalerij is located at the Oude Vest 34, next to the outdoor exhibition Chassé XXL. Here you’ll find the heart of the festival, with a service and ticket counter, food and drinks by RAVANELLO, the PhotoQ bookshop → p79 and on-going exhibitions and regular book presentations. At RAVANELLO you can order a good cup of coffee with cake, a healthy lunch made with local produce and a glass of beer or wine. Enjoy indoors in the Stadsgalerij or on the terrace.

opening hours RAVANELLO: – Tuesday through Thursday: 10.00–18.00 (kitchen open from 12.00) – Friday through Sunday: 10.00–21.00 (kitchen open from 12.00)

BredaPhoto by boat Hop on at 10 Belcrum Beach or 8 Chassépark and enjoy a boat trip on Breda’s canals. Along the way you’ll see the exhibitions of Mathieu Asselin and Sebastian Palmer. The trip takes about 25 minutes. Accessible with BredaPhoto passe-partout. Tue–Fri: 10.00–17.00: – on the hour from Belcrum – every half hour from Chassépark Sat–Sun: 10.00–17.00: – every half hour from both locations

Mohammad Abdulazez

(Azouz) → p10

Niels Ackermann → p19

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Ashcom → p25, 44

Mathieu Asselin → p25, 38

Eva Beazar → p10, 48 Daleen Bloemers → p27 12 Olivier van Breugel &

Jesse Cremers → p21

Simone Mudde → p27

Antoine Bruy → p19 14 Sander van Bussel → p28, 75 8 Alessandro Calabrese → p19 2 Alejandro Cegarra & 8

Manaure Quintero → p14, 50 2 8 5

Jia Dai Teng Fei → p14, 50 Léo Delafontaine → p19 Peter DiCampo & Austin Merrill → p17

Thomas Van Den Driessche → p20 8 Károly Effenberger → p20 10 Petros Efstathiadis → p25 8 Casper Fitzhue → p20, 46 Victor Goemaere → p28 8 Kirill Golovchenko → p20 8 Mike Harris → p21, 71 8 Jan Hoek → p21 4 Claudia Heinermann → p16, 32 11 Inge Hondebrink → p26 1 Hideyuki Ishibashi → p10 1 Johan van der Keuken → p10, 72 12 Carl De Keyzer → p27, 30 2 Yannis Kontos → p15, 50 6 Ine Lamers → p18, 66, 74 1 Lin Zhipeng (223) → p11 7 Jan Q. Maschinski → p18 12 Flor Maesen → p27 1 Lucie Marsmann → p11 8

Axel De Marteau → p16 Ralf Mitsch → p21 Baudouin Mouanda → p15, 50 Anika Neuß → p11 Pauline Niks &

photographers + locations

Sebastian Palmer → p25 1 Zoë Parton → p11 8 Paolo Pellegrin → p22 1 Robin de Puy → p12, 34 3 Isabel Rottiers → p16 11 David Rozemeyer → p26 5 Jaap Scheeren → p17 11 Julius Schrank → p26 2 Bryan Schutmaat → p15, 50, 67 8 Satomi Shirai → p22 8 Alexey Shlyk → p22 8 Bianca Sistermans → p22, 76 8 Luuk Smits → p23 1 Chantal Stoman → p12 8 Lise Straatsma → p23 13 Koen Theys → p28, 36 3 Thomas Vandenberghe → p16 1 Nina Verbruggen → p12 1 Danny Veys → p12 8 Siniša Vlajkovic´ & 9

Mohamed Somji → p23 5 1 1 1 5 8

Coralie Vogelaar → p17 Antoine Wagner → p13 Nanó Wallenius → p13 Erien Withouck → p13 8 Michael Wolf → p17, 23, 40 Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti → p24

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Xiaoxiao Xu → p24, 42 Xu Yong → p24 Brigitte Zieger → p13 9

Breda’s Museum Parade 12–14 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Mohammad Abdulazez (Azouz) Saraab (Mirage) | Azouz (syr) tells the personal story of his flight from Syria to the Netherlands. He shares the horrors and the hate, his hopes and his fears.

Eva Beazar → p48

Hideyuki Ishibashi Présage | Hideyuki Ishibashi (jpn) makes mysterious collages out of old pictures he found on flea markets or online. He cuts images into pieces, adds elements, and shows both the process and the end result. What do we see? Is it reality or fantasy?

Johan van der Keuken → p72 We are 17 & Les copains | The book We are 17 (1955) caused quite a stir. For the first time, the lives of youngsters were documented in so much detail. They smoked pipe, drank wine, philoso phised about the future. Critics spoke of a ‘doomed generation’. Sixty years later the book is published again, next to a new book with recently discovered pictures.

A Constructed Family | Talented Eva

Beazar (bel) made a series of ‘hybrid portraits’ for BredaPhoto. She placed passport pictures of friends and family on top of each other. The result is a series of intense black and white portraits in which multiple persons morph into one.

photographers + locations

Lin Zhipeng (223) Untitled | These intimate and raw snap shots depict China as we rarely see it. The searching, eccentric youngsters experiment, smoke and have sex. Lin Zhipeng (chn) is one of the pioneers of contemporary Chinese avant-garde photography.

Lucie Marsmann Ulla & Willi | Her grandparents Ulla and Willi owned a photo shop and portrait studio and were in the habit of photographing each other. When Lucie Marsmann (deu) stumbled on their immense archive, she decided to rearrange some pictures, pairing them with her own photos of memorabilia.

Anika Neuß

Zoë Parton Sofie | When Zoë Parton (bel) was nine years old, she lost her older sister Sofie in a traffic accident. To deal with her sister’s death she made a striking photo series in which Sofie is omni present, without actually being there.

Delusion. The Phenomenological Case of Sybil Isabel Dorsett | The American

Shirley Ardell Mason (1923–1998) suffered from dissociative identity disorder, causing her to experience multiple personalities. Anika Neuß (deu) visualised Shirley’s sixteen alter egos for BredaPhoto.

photographers + locations

Breda’s Museum (continued) Parade 12–14 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Robin de Puy → p34 Jan | Robin de Puy (nld) is this year’s Photographer Laureate. For Fotoweek and BredaPhoto she made an intimate portrait of her grand-uncle Jan who lives in Denmark and has Alzheimer’s disease.

Chantal Stoman Lost Highway | Chantal Stoman (fra) shows three short films and photos she made while driving through the megacities Tokyo, São Paulo and Mumbai. Invisible in her car, she could penetrate the soul of the city.

Antoine Wagner Creatives in Exil | Migration is the big issue of our time, says Antoine Wagner (usa). He alternates portraits of exiled artists and intellectuals with photos of the Swiss mountains. His great-great-grandfather, the composer Richard Wagner, lived in Swiss exile for nine years.

Nanó Wallenius

Nina Verbruggen Das War Einmal | What does a day in the life of Mrs. Bouwels (92) look like? Nina Verbruggen (nld) made a multi media installation about her grandmother. She can live on her own because she has a support network and can pay for help if she needs to. Not everyone is so lucky.

Danny Veys

Erien Withouck

Brigitte Zieger

the Yukon region in Canada on foot and by canoe with a large format camera. A 120 years ago, this was the scene of an unprecedented gold rush. Veys retraced the footsteps of these gold diggers and shows the impact of mining.

strange text combinations and regularly dives into the archives. With wordplay, she challenges us to think about the context and meaning of photos.

A Guide to Digging for Forgers and Foreigners | Danny Veys (bel) travelled

photographers + locations

All Living on a Giant’s Solar Model of the Universe | Erien Withouck (bel) likes

Only Last Spring I Started Wearing Pink |

Is pink a rebellious colour? It is for Nanó Wallenius (fin) who was forbidden to wear pink as a child, it would make her look feminine and weak. Now she explores traditional views of femininity and gender stereotypes in pink self portraits.

Women Are Different from Men | Brigitte Zieger (deu) is critical of the way war and violence are visualised and legitimised in our society. She processed found photos of women holding guns and pistols. The result is frightening and attractive at the same time.

photographers + locations

Breda’s Museum courtyard Parade 12–14 (entrance at Keizerstraat) open 24/7

The Absent State This unique project is a collaboration of BredaPhoto and World Press Photo. We wanted to know how self-reliance is experienced in other parts of the world, in countries where there’s no welfare state or social security. We’ve asked five photographers and five writers to set out and explore. → p50

Alejandro Cegarra & Manaure Quintero The Collapse | Venezuela is close to collapse. These rough black and white images show the implosion of the welfare state and the resulting chaos. Made by two photojournalists from Caracas, now the most dangerous city on earth.

Yannis Kontos

Jia Dai Teng Fei

Bryan Schutmaat → p67 Vessels | Bryan Schutmaat (usa) portrayed drifters, hitchhikers and other travellers in the southern United States. They are on the move, fleeing from their ordinary lives, from consumerism or the constraints of government.

Why Did You Leave Me Behind? | An infant taking care of a sick relative? This little boy is one of the children in the Chinese countryside who were left behind by their parents. Photojournalist Jia Dai Teng Fei (chn) tells their story.

photographers + locations

Filling the Gaps | The number of homeless

people in Greece exploded because of the enormous budget cuts. They hardly get any support from the state and are entirely reliant on the care of NGOs and volunteers who care for them. A report by World Press Photo winner Yannis Kontos (grc).

Baudouin Mouanda

Congo, Initiatives Palliatives (Congo, Mitigating Initiatives) | The fast growing

city of Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of the Congo, provides only the most basic public services. So people have to be creative. Baudouin Mouanda (cog) photographed youngsters who sell and repair generators for money and study underneath streetlights.

photographers + locations

SBK Galerie & Kunstuitleen Markendaalseweg 48 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Galerie Ecker Markendaalseweg 18 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

MOTI: Museum of the Image Boschstraat 22 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Isabel Rottiers Eye Contact | For BredaPhoto Rottiers (bel) portrayed children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, among them her own son and daughter. Rottiers shows the vulnerability but also the strength of these children, for whom the government no longer provides all support.

Claudia Heinermann → p32

Thomas Vandenberghe Traces of a Diary | The analogue prints of Thomas Vandenberghe (bel) are intimate and very personal. These snapshots of everyday situations are like a diary of his life.

Axel De Marteau

Coralie Vogelaar

(bel) fabricates his own spaces from poly styrene and wooden boards. He builds them inside his studio. So what is inside and what is outside here?

s uccessful compared to others? For BredaPhoto and MOTI, wondered Coralie Vogelaar (nld) analysed 850.000 news images with the help of image recognition and eye-tracking software. She translated her findings in a surprising video-installation.

Wolfskinder. A Post-War Story | The wolf

children lived in hiding for half a century. These German orphans fled from the Russian army and ended up in the Lithu anian woods. Claudia Heinermann (deu) visited the last wolf children, all well advanced in age, to preserve their stories for future generations.

Untitled.Prototype | In his video perfor mance Untitled.Prototype Axel De Marteau

photographers + locations

Peter DiCampo & Austin Merrill Everyday Africa | War, poverty, exotism: Africa is a continent plagued by persistent stereotypes. But social media can change that. Through Instagram, African photog raphers can share pictures of everyday Africa with a large audience.

Recognized/Not Recognized (Free State MOTI) | Why are some news photos so

Jaap Scheeren

My House (Free State MOTI) | A house

is a safe cocoon, the only place where a person can really be free. For BredaPhoto and MOTI, Jaap Scheeren (nld) made the installation My House. Inside, you’ll see a man who falls into 10.000 eggs in slow motion and prints made with his grandmother’s ashes.

Michael Wolf → p40 Informal Solutions | An ‘encyclopaedia of back alley improvisations’, that’s how Michael Wolf (deu) describes his most recent project. In Hong Kong, people claim their own spot in the megacity with impro vised seats, self-made chairs and plants in unexpected places. In MOTI you can see the photos, videos and objects.

photographers + locations

Club Solo

Kloosterlaan 138 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Ine Lamers → p66, 74 Solo 9 | How to photograph a city you’re not allowed to enter? Ine Lamers (nld) took up this challenge and travelled to the closed Soviet city of Zheleznogorsk, built by Stalin for the production of nuclear weapons. Lamers has been interested in that which doesn’t want to be seen for a long time. Club Solo invited her to show a small overview of her work.

3sec.gallery Coulissen 2 (entrance Chasséparking) open 24/7

Jan Q. Maschinski Vortex | Hollow-eyed, the models stare into the distance and seem locked in an emotion. But is it anger, fear, sadness or ecstasy they experience? Jan Q. Maschinski (deu) leaves it to the viewer to decide.

Chassépark between Nonnenveld, Wilhelminasingel open 24/7

Niels Ackermann

l’Ange Blanc (The White Angel) | For

years, Niels Ackermann (che) followed Yulia, who lives near Chernobyl, Ukraine. She works on a construction site near the nuclear reactor and is positive about the future. But where will she work once the construction is completed?

Alessandro Calabrese

Die Deutsche Punkinvasion (The German Punk Invasion) | In an Italian junkyard

Alessandro Calabrese (ita) found a booklet of a German punk-cd from the nineties. He placed photos of these do-it-yourselfpunks next to his own pictures of crashed cars, shattered windshields, torn strips of metal and loose wiring. 18

photographers + locations

Antoine Bruy Scrublands | Quitting your job, selling your possessions and starting a new life: most people only daydream about it. Antoine Bruy (fra) hitchhiked from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians and looked for people who live in self-sufficient isolation. They live a beautiful but tough life.

Léo Delafontaine Micronations | There are an estimated 400 micronations worldwide. These countries can be smaller than a square kilometer in size, yet they have a consti tution, an anthem and sometimes even an army of their own. Léo Delafontaine (fra) travelled through Europe, the US and Australia to find them.

photographers + locations

Chassépark (continued) between Nonnenveld, Wilhelminasingel open 24/7

Thomas Van Den Driessche

How to Be a Photographer in Four Lessons | The war photographer in vintage leather jacket and checked scarf, the concep tual photographer who takes himself too seriously as an artist. Thomas Van Den Driessche (bel) made a satirical do-it-yourself-guide for photographers and pokes fun at cliches.

Casper Fitzhue → p46 Optimal Prime | What happens when Earth is largely destroyed by wars, toxic waste and climate change? How will people survive? Casper Fitzhue (rou) helps mankind on its way. He made his own futuristic flowers out of metal and plastic.

Károly Effenberger Alone | Living independently is the new norm, because technology makes it easier to do so, or because the govern ment wants us to. But how do elderly or sick people stay in touch with society? Alone is a long-term project by Károly Effenberger (nld).

Mike Harris → p71

Kirill Golovchenko Bitter Honeydew | Every summer, traders from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia cross the border with Ukraine. There they sell fruits and snacks to tourists who are travelling to the Black Sea. With a sense of humour, Kirill Golovchenko (ukr) shows the harsh lives of labour migrants.

Ralf Mitsch

photographers + locations

The Great Outdoors | Many homeless

people are living in tents in and around the city of Breda. Mike Harris (nld) portrayed their harsh lives. Yet, they are easily mis taken for recreational campers.

Why I Love Tattoos | Why does someone

have a tattoo of a skull on his arm or a revolver in his neck? Ralf Mitsch (deu) portrayed over fifty people with a tattoo. Every tattooed body tells a different story.

Jan Hoek

An Interior Design Column as God Meant It to Be | The note on the fridge, the clutter under the sofa: these things show us how we actually live. And that’s more exciting than what we get to see in interior design columns in magazines. Jan Hoek (nld) visited Dutch and Taiwanese households in search of the soul of their homes.

Pauline Niks & Jesse Cremers

CARAVAN Bending and Stretching the Rules | Last year, artists Pauline Niks

(nld) and Jesse Cremers (fra) travelled to Sweden in a caravan and formed their own company: CARAVAN, complete with corporate identity, logo and company clothing. For BredaPhoto they made a wayward photo series.

photographers + locations

Chassépark (continued) between Nonnenveld, Wilhelminasingel open 24/7

Paolo Pellegrin

Satomi Shirai

Luuk Smits

Lise Straatsma

Spring, Magnum-photographer Paolo Pellegrin (ita) was in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. In this new selection, he shows us the battle for democracy and freedom by zooming in on unsettling details.

Satomi Shirai (jpn) grew up in Tokyo and lived in New York for over ten years. The language, customs and culture were difficult to get used to. She made a series of humouring and touching images about home-sickness and cultural conflicts.

oing the dishes exciting? Luuk Smits d (nld) stacked his dripping dishes on the draining board and photographed surprising compositions. If you invite him to dinner, he’ll do your dishes too.

prepare for a big disaster, the end of society or even the world. Lise Straatsma (nld) photographed their survival tactics, like an ominously lit atomic bunker and a selfmade water filter.

Bianca Sistermans → p76 Everyday Annoyances | Greasy finger prints on the window, a slimy piece of soap and a pathetic looking light bulb dangling from the ceiling. These and other familiar annoyances were captured by Bianca Sistermans (nld).

Siniša Vlajkovic´ & Mohamed Somji Substation | This duo photographed run-down fuel stations along the quiet desert roads of the United Arab Emirates. They are kept standing by the creative patchwork of fuel station attendants. The contrast with the shining buildings in hypermodern megacities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi could not be bigger.

Michael Wolf → p40 Informal Solutions | An ‘encyclopaedia of back alley improvisations’, that’s how Michael Wolf (deu) describes his most recent project. In Hong Kong, people claim their own spot in the megacity with improvised seats, self-made chairs and plants in un expected places. An exhibition in two parts: in MOTI and the Chassépark.

Tahrir Square 2011 | During the Arab

Alexey Shlyk

The Appleseed Necklace | The grave

shortages in the latter days of the Soviet Union forced people to be creative. Alexey Shlyck (blr) reflects on his own past and that of his country Belarus with a mixture of humour and nostalgia.

Home and Home, New York in My Life |

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Doing Your Dishes | How to make

The Alpha Strategy | Doomsday preppers

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Chassépark (continued)

between Nonnenveld, Wilhelminasingel open 24/7

Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti The Heavens. Annual Report | Italian photographers Gabriele Galimberti and Paolo Woods visited well known tax havens (yes, also the Netherlands) and show the banal aspects of tax evasion: the struggle between governments and multinationals, and the increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Chassésingel / Belcrum Beach Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00 → p6

Belcrum Beach Veilingkade 12A Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Xiaoxiao Xu → p42

Mathieu Asselin → p38

Xu (chn) found eight Chinese farmers who build their own airplanes with recycled materials and household appliances. She listened to their stories, photographed the farmers and was touched by their resourcefulness, their optimism and their courage.

Street was a protest against corruption, inequality and the power of the financial sector. Mathieu Asselin (fra) portrayed a motley crew of protesters who see them selves as the representatives of the 99% who own less than the richest 1%.

Morgan Ashcom → p44 Leviathan | For three years, Morgan Ashcom (usa) photographed the anar chistic skaters paradise Skatopia. We see a man with an eye-patch, a burning car, and… a whale’s tail through the shattered windshield. What happened here?

Sebastian Palmer Hope | Hope is an award-winning series by Sebastian Palmer (gbr). He portrayed his neighbours in a squat in São Paulo, Brazil. These hard working people moved to the city, looking for a better life. Hope keeps them going.

Petros Efstathiadis Bombs | A bomb made of a walkman, rope or a spray can? Petros Efstathiadis (grc) used to make his own fireworks as a child. Now he makes harmless bombs from household appliances as a handmade parody on the absurdity of violence.

Aeronautics in the Backyard | Xiaoxiao

Xu Yong

Negatives | In 1989 thousands of students protested in Beijing for more freedom and less censorship in communist China. Xu Yong (chn) was there. 27 years later he shows us his negatives. You can ‘develop’ the pictures yourself with a smartphone or tablet.

Singel (boat trip)

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The Ninety-Nine Percent | Occupy Wall

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STEK

Veilingkade 9 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Inge Hondebrink

Next Stop Palookaville | The Greyhound

is the mode of transport for America’s underclass. Inge Hondebrink (nld) travelled 5.000 kilometers on the bus and portrayed the passengers she met. A roadtrip through rugged America.

Liniestraat 19 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

David Rozemeyer Glossy STEK | BredaPhoto asked David Rozemeyer (nld) to portray the entrepre neurs of the temporary creative business area in Breda’s Belcrum quarter. He did this in a glossy way, as if they feature on the cover of a fashion magazine.

Julius Schrank

(Un)wanted Animals | Julius Schrank (deu) followed The Kitchen of the Unwanted Animal for BredaPhoto. This culinary collective prepares dishes from hunted down vermin like geese, muskrats, foxes, pigeons and coots.

De Faam

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Daleen Bloemers

I’m So Happy to Hear You’re Doing Fine | Daleen Bloemers (nld) combines

pictures of her own with found footage. She cuts and pastes, blows pictures up to monumental proportions, and presents the collages as impressive free-standing sculptures.

Carl De Keyzer → p30

Cuba La Lucha | Magnum-photographer

Carl De Keyzer (bel) shows the transition from communism to capitalism in Cuba. Many Cubans are optimistic and hope for a better future, but others fear greater insecurity now they are on their own.

Olivier van Breugel & Simone Mudde Mono Men | In Japan, a lot of pension ers keep working, often to avoid social isolation. The Dutch duo Olivier van Breugel and Simone Mudde filmed the monotonous work of overseers of roadworks.

Flor Maesen Geen titel | The young Flor Maesen (bel) creates his own dream world with his camera, far away from reality. The intimate and dark nude images he shows at BredaPhoto express a sense of longing.

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Electron

Belcrumweg 19 Tue–Sun 10.00–17.00

Koen Theys → p36

The Final Countdown | Koen Theys (bel)

collected over 2,000 YouTube-versions of this well known eighties pop song by Europe. The result? A musical trip across different ages, traditions and cultures, underlining the universal urge to excel and to be admired.

Willemstraat Willemstraat open 24/7

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Sander van Bussel → p75 Human Rights Tattoo | Sander van Bussel (nld) tattooed one letter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 3300+ bodies and photographed every single tattoo. He wants to raise awareness for this important text. He is currently halfway through his project and shows his photos for the first time.

performance X Stadsgalerij, Oude Vest 34 Thu 6 October B Podium Bloos, Speelhuislaan 151 Sat 22 October F Pier15, Veilingkade 12 Sat 29 October

Victor Goemaere will show his video performance at De Mus → p78, during the international student weekend → p62, and the Overslag festival → p83.

Victor Goemaere

Videoperformance 1 | Old videotapes

of nature documentaries, the images fading and stretching. A soundscape that’s created on the spot. You’re never quite sure what Victor Goemaere (bel) will do during his live video performance.

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Cuba between c ommunism and capitalism Magnum-photographer Carl De Keyzer (1958) stayed in Cuba for three months. He made a series on the uncertain transition from communism to capitalism. Struggle, the need to survive, a lust for life: the meaning of the Spanish word la lucha pertains to the hard lives of Cubans trying to take care of themselves as well as to their optimism. It is an often-heard phrase in current day Cuba, a country changing a communist system for a capitalist one. Part of the population hopes for a better future. Others mostly fear the uncertainty that awaits them. De Keyzer shuns photographical cliches. So we won’t get to see shuffling old ladies in the street or run down taxis. Instead, he photographed strong personalities and surprising scenes in this once secluded society. He shows a terrace where tourists can buy postcards of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and a run-down taxi with a hypermodern video system. The Belgian photographer has done several projects on the fall of communism. In the 1980s he travelled through the Soviet Union and made the book Homo Sovieticus (1989). East of Eden (1996) was the result of two years travelling through Eastern Europe. For Zona (2003) he photographed daily life in Siberian prisons. De Keyzer is a member of the renowned photographer agency Magnum Photos.

Carl De Keyzer

De Faam → p27

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Unknown war stories Claudia Heinermann (1967) portrayed forgotten victims of the Second World War: the German wolf children who fled from the Russian army to Lithuania. Waltraut Minnt (1936) was seven years old when Russian soldiers raided her home in East Prussia. They raped her mother and put the family on a train to Siberia. Her heavily injured mother died on the way. Waltraut and her older sister were set to work in the Gulag. Only Waltraut survived. At the start of the 1950s she was deported to Lithuania. She didn’t know anyone, didn’t speak the language and wandered across the countryside for years. Finally, a family of farmers took her in. Waltraut grew up and mar ried a heavy drinker. She had six sons with him. Now she lives in a small cottage near the forest. Waltraut still prefers the outdoors. At the end of 1944 the Russian Red Army conquered East Prussia. Hundreds of thousands of people fled the advancing troops, among them many children. They ended up in Lithuania where they tried to survive in the woods and the countryside. The lucky ones were adopted by Lithuanian families and received a new Lithuanian name so the Soviet regime wouldn’t discover their real identities. Only after the fall of the Soviet Union did the stories of these wolf children (wolfskinder) surface. Claudia Heinermann and journalist Sonya Winterberg tracked the remaining wolf children. With portraits, landscapes, historical documents and old pictures they trace their tragic histo ries. Heinermann wants to save these stories for future generations, because, she says, in every war innocent children are involved and traumatised for life.

Claudia Heinermann

Galerie Ecker → p16

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Intimate Family Portrait by Photographer Laureate Exclusively for BredaPhoto and Photo Week, Photographer Laureate Robin de Puy (1986) made the series Jan, about her great uncle Jan Mallan (81) who has Alzheimer’s disease.

Who is Jan? ‘Jan is my father’s uncle. In the 1960s he moved to Denmark where he still lives with his Danish wife. I’ve always had a close relationship with them and visit every few months. Last year, Jan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Now it’s like the layers are being peeled away, showing a purer version of my uncle. It’s very sad to see, but also beautiful in a way. He reacts instinctively and pure, almost like a child locked inside the body of a big old man.’

How did your uncle react to being photographed? ‘He thought it was a terrific idea. He really wanted to make this project together with me. He used to like swimming a lot, so I took him swimming in shallow water. At first, his movements were clumsy, but gradually he started having fun. “Did you manage to catch me on film,” he asked. “Wasn’t I under water too much?” I made the moving images together with cameraman Maarten van Rossem.’

What did you want to convey with this project? ‘I don’t know anyone who is as special as my uncle. I wanted to show his unique personality and physique before they disappear.’

Robin de Puy

Breda’s Museum → p12

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The Final Countdown 2,000 times This pioneer of Belgian video art collected over 2,000 YouTube clips of the famous pop song The Final Countdown. Theys’ work often centres on popular culture. At a young age, Koen Theys (1963) established a name for himself as a disruptive artist. In 1983 he was sent from the art academy in Ghent because he had made a video in which he attacked a dead German shepherd dog with an axe. For those who have become curious: Crime01 can be viewed on koentheys.org. Although he was trained as a sculptor, Theys gradually ventured into making videos, starting with filmed performances. When he was only twenty years old, the Museum of Modern Art in New York bought one of his video’s: Diana, about the goddess of the hunt. Popular culture and the deconstruction of Western icons are recurring themes in his work. In the 1980s, he gained world wide recognition with Song of my Soil (Lied van mijn land), a modern interpretation of Richard Wagner’s Ring der Nibelungen and Parsifal, mixed with a criticism of mass entertainment. The recent video Death Fucking Metal (2014) centres on a group of washed-out rock stars. During BredaPhoto, Electron will show The Final Countdown (2010). For this piece, Theys used over 2,000 video clips found on YouTube. In a seemingly endless repetition we hear the famous opening chords of the eighties hit The Final Countdown over and over again. Each time a little different: from an a cappella rendition to a cover by a symphony orchestra. The musicians have one thing in common: they all want to be seen and heard.

Koen Theys

Electron → p28

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Protesters on the waterfront Hop on a boat and admire the photos Mathieu Asselin (1973) took of Occupy. This worldwide protest movement fought for a fairer world. Occupy began on the 17th of September 2011 in Zuccotti Park, New York, near Wall Street. With banners, lectures and play ful protests the Occupyers stood up against growing social and economic equality and the vast influence of the financial sector. The French photographer Mathieu Asselin (1973) was there. He portrayed a motley crew of protesters against a neutral back ground. They hold up banners and signs, raise a clenched fist, or pose intimately with their loved ones. Their faces show anger, but also optimism and hope. The protestors called themselves ‘the ninety-nine percent’, referring to the income inequality in the United States where one percent of the population owns more wealth than the other ninety-nine percent combined. After two months, the tent camp in New York was dis banded. Even though the Occupyers didn’t achieve concrete results at the time, their influence was great. The worldwide Occupy-protests put income inequality and the need to reform the financial system firmly on the political agenda. These discus sions still play an important role in the run up to the elections in the United States as well as in The Netherlands and other European countries. The support for an economic system that only favours the one percent at the top is dwindling.

Mathieu Asselin

Singel (boat trip) → p25

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A city made by people A homemade seating area, plants where they don’t belong and random coat hangers in the street. In Hong Kong, Michael Wolf (1954) found these ‘informal solutions’. In Breda, his photos and videos are next to the items he collected on the streets. Michael Wolf is one of the great image-defining photo graphers of today. He has made famous photography series on megacities Hong Kong and Paris. He has also won two World Press Photo-prizes for his pictures of Chinese factories and crowded Japanese subways. In his hometown Hong Kong, Wolf has been registering the ‘informal solutions’ that people use to claim their own spot in the city: a mini-break in a random place, a self-made seating corner on the street or in a café. ‘Think of it as an encyclopaedia of improvisations in back alleys,’ says Wolf. Next to photos and short videos, Wolf shows the items he found in Hong Kong’s alleyways. When he encountered a special, self-made chair for example, he would ask the owner if it was for sale. In the Museum of the Image (MOTI), you will see which items Wolf brought with him to Breda. Part of his photos can be seen in large format in the outdoor exhibition Chassé XXL. Michael Wolf is not the only reason to visit MOTI. Here you’ll also find the exhibition Free State MOTI. BredaPhoto and MOTI invited the promising young Dutch artists Jaap Scheeren and Coralie Vogelaar to build their own free state.

Michael Wolf + Free state MOTI

MOTI

Chassépark → p17, 23

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DIY-planes in the Chinese countryside Xiaoxiao Xu (1984) followed eight Chinese farmers who build their own airplanes from their backyard. She was fascinated by their inventiveness and resourcefulness.

Why do the stories of these farmers appeal to you? ‘I love how they independently seek to fulfil their dreams, right in their own backyard with recycled materials and garden shed tools. They make the impossible possible.’

How did the farmers receive you? ‘They were very friendly. Xu Bin invited me to stay with his family. On the first day he showed me the city. On the second day I joined him to work. On the third day he took me to city hall to apply for funding for his project. And on the fourth day he took me to his wife’s village. In this way you get closer to someone. I listen, I observe, and at the right moment I press the shutter.’

Is there a farmer whose memory you particularly hold dear? ‘I will always remember Xu Bin. He is quiet and smart and realises his dream step by step. He was eighteen years old when he started building planes. Now he’s forty and can live off his airplanes. He even opened an airplane museum in his hometown. I flew with Xu Bin in his plane The White Dragon. It was a dizzying and unforgettable experience.’

Don’t miss: Xiaoxiao Xu presents her new book Aeronautics in the Backyard during BredaPhoto. See bredaphoto.nl for the date and location.

Xiaoxiao Xu

Chassépark → p24

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Anarchist paradise Skatopia is a place of extremes. No wonder Morgan Ashcom (1982) chose it as backdrop for his fictional series Leviathan. Nothing is what it seems here. Halfway through the 1990s a community of skateboarders began building a skate park in the mountains of Ohio in the United States. It started with a few cement ramps but grew into a complete skaters village called Skatopia. It became famous and notorious for the anarchy, the rough lifestyle of the hundreds of occupants and the exuberant parties and concerts that were held there. This is the backdrop for Morgan Ashcom’s fictional series Leviathan. Between 2009 and 2012, Ashcom took these photographs in a setting where he recognised part of himself. He grew up on an isolated farm in the countryside of Virginia and was a skater for many years. In his photographs we see a man with an eye patch, a burning car, but also a whale’s tail, but nothing is what it seems. Ashcom collaborated with the people he photographed to construct scenes with mythological and allegorical themes. In this way, he utilises photography to engage in storytelling. With Leviathan, Ashcom creates the illusion of a safe and secluded society. The land appears to be on the verge of some great change, just as it does in the myth of the great sea monster Leviathan.

Morgan Ashcom

STEK

Belcrum Beach → p25

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Photographer and futurologist Usually photography is used to record reality. But why shouldn’t we use it to envision the future as well? ‘Imagine an Earth destroyed by climate change, war, ollution and toxic waste. All we have left is plastic and metal,’ says p Casper Fitzhue (1990), a photographer studying in Antwerp. In this situation, people would be forced to think of something new. At first glance, Fitzhue’s futuristic images might seem computer generated, but they are actually the result of a lengthy and skilful process. From the plastic of model warplanes, tanks and helicopters, he made new types of flowers. Fitzhue: ‘At first they looked more like satellites or space ships. I hung the flowers upside down by a thread and photographed them against a black or white background. The flowers really started coming alive when I used colour gels. You can almost smell them now.’ Fitzhue used a long shutter time. Because the flowers are in motion, we perceive a flow of colours and get a sense of depth. ‘It cost me 1200 photos to get that first one right,’ says Fitzhue. The images aren’t completely sharp, but that wasn’t the intention. ‘Everything is handmade. I want you to see the plastic of the flowers, the metal frame, my finger prints.’ His flowers symbolise nostalgia, the things we miss when they’re no longer there, but they also symbolise hope. Fitzhue considers himself a cyber optimist, he says. He isn’t actually afraid the world is doomed. ‘I think we’re creative and inventive enough to prevent that from happening.’

Casper Fitzhue

Chassépark → p20

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Phantom Images The portraits of the talented Belgian photographer Eva Beazar (1987) consist of layered passport photographs of people who are important to her. In their eyes lies a lifetime of stories. Eva Beazar describes her mysterious portraits in black and grey as ‘phantom images’. With their hazy look, these photos almost seem drawn with charcoal. The portraits are actually comprised of several photographs placed on top of each other. Beazar put the focus on the eyes, instantly drawing attention. She formed completely new faces: you never know where one face begins and the other ends. Yet the goal of a passport photo is to be as objective as possible, the law even dictates what a passport photo should look like. Beazar’s pictures are anything but objective. We can interpret her work as a search for identity, she says. That phenomenon is as intangible as the individuals in her photos. Beazar: ‘It’s not exactly clear what an identity is: not for an individual, and least of all for a community. Identities are constantly changing.’ Beazar made a series of intimate portraits. ‘One by one, they are all passport photos of people I know well, or people I have lost. From a young age I have been confronted with loss. I took these experiences and used them in these series. In a way, this project is also a search for my own identity.’

Eva Beazar

Breda’s Museum → p10

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Yannis Kontos – Filling the Gaps → p15

The Absent State

A BredaPhoto and World Press Photo exclusive project Five photographers from five continents explored what self-sufficiency means in their countries: from abandoned children in the Chinese countryside to drifters along the American highway. YOU are this year’s theme of BredaPhoto. You are the man or woman, boy or girl who stands up for him- or herself. The individual who is creative and innovative, but also needs a little help at times. In Europe we have become used to the safety net the government provides. But because of budget cuts and reforms, that safety net is no longer a given. BredaPhoto and World Press Photo wanted to know what self-sufficiency looks like in other parts of the world. In countries where there has never been a welfare state, or where there’s a lot less social security than here. We’ve asked five photographers from five continents to tell their stories. You will see their work in the exhibition The Absent State, free of charge in the inner courtyard of the Breda’s Museum. In the accompanying photo book five local writers tell the stories behind these magnificent documentary series.

Drifters Take the classic American photography series by Bryan Schutmaat – you might remember him from two years ago when he showed his photos of mining communities in the American West at BredaPhoto. This time, Schutmaat photographed the drifters who hitchhike across America. His timeless black and 50

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white photographs fit in a long tradition of American documen tary photography. The people in Schutmaat’s photos lead a nomadic existence. They symbolise American ideals like freedom and independence. But is their choice a voluntary one? They live in seclusion, but also in poverty. Or, as Travis Klunick in his accompanying essay writes: ‘Some people lead hard lives.’

Little children From the United States we cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the Chinese countryside. There, Jia Dai Teng Fei found children who have to fend for themselves. Their parents abandoned them at a young age. Some of these children are no older than four years, yet they take care of their grandmother or sick father. We see them lugging around heavy farming tools. They already have the hands of old labourers. Jia shows another side of China: not the crowded cities, but the hard lives in the countryside.

Creative and confronting Self-sufficiency comes in many guises. Baudouin Mouanda shows that it can also lead to enormous creativity. He photographed youngsters in Brazzaville (Congo) who figured out inventive ways to deal with the frequent power cuts at home. Some youngsters study underneath streetlights. Others earn pocket money by selling and repairing batteries and generators. Where the state lacks, volunteers often take over. Yannis Kontos followed the counsellors who care for the Greek homeless. Their number has exploded since Greece suffered huge budget cuts imposed by international moneylenders. Bryan Schutmaat – Vessels → p15, 67

The Absent State

Breda’s Museum courtyard → p14

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special activities

And what happens when the state fails to act at all? In Venezuela Alejandro Cegarra and Manaure Quintero shot some disturbing images. Their country is on the brink of collapse. The f ormerly generous welfare state has all but disappeared. Sick people can only pray for recovery, as medicine is hard to come by. The tension in the streets is increasing and authorities can no longer curb the explosion of violence.

The following writers were matched to the photographers of The Absent State: María José Gómez (ven), Ifrikia Kengue (cog), Travis Klunick (usa), Weina Li (chn), Fotini (Fenia) Chala (grc). Visit the Absent State weekend on October 1&2 and meet the photographers and writers. On 18 September at 13.30, Bryan Schutmaat will give a lecture in MOTI. → p67

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ON-GOING ACTIVITIES Plan your activities Every weekend BredaPhoto offers special activities. There are lectures, presentations and meet-ups in the Stadsgalerij. Use our timetable to plan your activities. For the latest information and up to date weekend programming, please consult bredaphoto.nl, our Facebook page, or the information counters in the Stadsgalerij and NS train station Breda where you’ll find flyers with our weekly agenda.

YOUrt: interactive → p64 Tuesday through Sunday: 10.00–17.00 X Stadsgalerij It’s your turn, come and experi ment, make your own image in our Mongolian tent. Post your photos with hashtag #yourt_bp16.

1-on-1 conversation Every weekend you can talk one-on-one about the festival theme YOU with interesting guests like exhibiting photographers and Belcrum inhabitants.

With passe-partout.

The Dark Room

Weekend of the international photographer

Thu 15 September / 20.00–22.30 C Chassé Theater, Claudius Prinsenlaan 8 7,–

Meet BredaPhoto photographers from around the world.

live magazine

BredaPhoto photographers (a.o. Robin de Puy and Lin Zhipeng) will give you the latest news. Others pitch their projects. You decide who receives support.

mysterious tour with dinner

BrabantNacht: visit top photographers by night → p66 Sat 17 September / 19.30–00.00 changing locations 46,–

BredaPhoto by boat → p6 Tuesday through Friday: 10.00–17.00 – on the hour from Belcrum – every half hour from Chassépark Saturday and Sunday: 10.00–17.00 – every half hour from both locations 8 Chassépark 10 Belcrum Beach

WEEK 1: THU 15 SEP – SUN 18 SEP

Interactive Meetings with Close Encounters Visit bredaphoto.nl and Facebook for the most up to date information or use the flyers with our weekly programme. Find these at the information counters in the Stadsgalerij and Breda NS train station, next to the ticket counter.

Visit the festival at night and use a flashlight to discover top photo graphers. Includes dinner, a boat trip and live music. Tickets: visitbrabant.nl/brabantnacht

Saturday and Sunday: 14.00 departure from X Stadsgalerij At 14.00 on Saturdays and Sundays passe-partout holders can join a free tour of the exhibitions in the Chassépark.

PhotoQ Bookshop → p79 Tuesday through Sunday: 10.00–17.00 X Stadsgalerij Saturday and Sunday: 15.00–17.00 Book presentations, book signings, interviews and reviews

Sun 18 September / 15.00 6 Club Solo How do you photograph a city you’re not allowed to enter? Ine Lamers on the closed city of Zheleznogorsk, Russia and other projects.

On other days/times and without a passe-partout, you can book a tour: rondleidingen@bredaphoto.nl

special activities

Meet the Photographers → p56 Sat 17 September / 14.00–16.00 Sun 18 September / 12.00–15.00 X Stadsgalerij Meet the exhibiting photographers of BredaPhoto.

lecture

Bryan Schutmaat on drifters and hitchhikers → p67 Sun 18 September / 13.30 5 MOTI They’re all on the road, running away, looking for something.

interactive meetings grand opening

Ine Lamers – Solo 9 → p66

Tours → p6

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Close Encounters → p56 Sun 18 September / 16.00 X Stadsgalerij Visit bredaphoto.nl for up to date information.

WEEK 2: MON 19 – SUN 25 SEP grand opening

Writing to Remember → p68

Thu 22 September / 16.00 H Verzorgingshuis De Leystroom, Brabantlaan 5 Fri 23 September / 15.30 J Seniorenresidentie Ruitersbos, Boeimeerweg 2 Opening of photo exhibition made by the residents of two nursing homes. Special ego-documents with a focus on self-reliance and informal care.

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Image Hunters event: from fanatical to obsessive image collectors → p70 Sat 24 September / 14.00–17.00 C Chassé Theater, Claudius Prinsenlaan 8 15,– Includes consumption (groups of six people and up: 10,– p.p.) MOTI and BredaPhoto present the second edition of Image Hunters, an evening with fanatical image collectors. Tickets via chasse.nl.

Breda in the spotlight A week about Breda and her diverse inhabitants. 1 - o n - 1 c o n v e r s at i o n

With participants of The Great Outdoors by Mike Harris → p71 Sat 24 September / 14.00–16.00 X Stadsgalerij

Pechakucha: to the point presentations on passion and creativity Tue 27 September / 20.20 D Mezz, Keizerstraat 101 Ten speakers will share their passion and creativity in short and inspiring presentations. With a.o. Casper Fitzhue → p20, 46 and David Rozemeyer → p26.

Werckmeister Harmonies

(Béla Tarr, 2000) → p74

Admire photo series by students of AKV | St. Joost on Breda made with material from the city archives. Exhibition in seven living rooms and a walking lunch by De Gouden Radijs. Tickets: bredaphoto.nl/ programma/museumstraat

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Close Encounters Mike Harris The Great Outdoors: homeless people in Breda → p71

The Absent State is a unique BredaPhoto & World Press Photo project. Five photographers from five continents explored what self-sufficiency means in their respective countries. → p50

The Absent State: the impact of the absent state → p14

Museumstreet: Exhibition in 7 living rooms → p69 Sun 25 September / 12.00–15.00 E Speelhuislaan 17,50

The Absent State Weekend

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wa l k i n g l u n c h

Discover a very different side of Breda and see where homeless people live. Talk about the problems and prejudice they face.

special activities

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film

Sun 25 September / 14.00–16.00 X Stadsgalerij

WEEK 3: MON 26 SEP – SUN 2 OCT

Tue 27 September [time unknown] 6 Club Solo This film is a big inspiration to photo grapher Ine Lamers. Visit clubsolo.nl for more information.

Sat 1 October / 13.00–14.30 5 MOTI Exchange views with the photo graphers and writers who made the exhibition The Absent State. interactive meetings

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Close Encounters Sander van Bussel on Human Rights Tattoo → p75 Sun 2 October / 16.30 X Stadsgalerij Sander van Bussel wants to tattoo each of the 6773 letters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on as many bodies. He is currently halfway and shares his experience.

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Close Encounters Kosovo: future stories from the past → p75 Sat 1 October / 14.45–15.30 X Stadsgalerij Photographer Willem Poelstra documents the aftermath of war. Today, he’ll share his experiences. 1 - o n - 1 c o n v e r s at i o n

With five The Absent State photographers → p14 Sun 2 October / 14.00–16.00 X Stadsgalerij

WEEK 4: MON 3 – SUN 9 OCT ta l k s h o w

De Mus: An image is worth a thousand words? → p76 Thu 6 October / 20.30–22.30 X Stadsgalerij 5,– Is an image really worth a thousand words? Come to De Mus where photographer Bianca Sistermans and others will show you how image and language reinforce each other.

DIY: Do It Yourself Weekend Do it yourself this weekend. Be surprised by the possibilities of plastic and travel back in time with the old-school Collodion photo graphy from the 1850s.

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From trash to jewellery: Perpetual Plastic Project → p77 do it yourself

Fotoautomaat – discover your personal photography style → p77 Sat 8 – Sun 9 October / 10.00–17.00 8 Chassépark 2,– Become a fashion-, nature- or archi tecture photographer. Visit the Photo Booth and discover your personal style. Based on Thomas Van Den Driessche’s How to Be a Photo grapher in Four Lessons. → p20

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Collodion Caravan: timeless portrait → p78 Sat 8 – Sun 9 October / 10.00–17.00 8 Chassépark 50,– per portrait Reservation required: peter@beeldspraakfotografie.nl Old-school Collodion photography, also known as the wet plate technique, dates from 1851. Have your timeless portrait made and follow the process in a caravan turned dark room.

special activities

Sat 8 October / 10.00–17.00 X Stadsgalerij Bring your own plastic trash: plastic cups, plates, cutlery (unfortunately no plastic bottles) and watch how your trash is transformed on the spot into a beautiful ring.

WEEK 5: MON 10 – SUN 16 OCT ta l k s h o w

This is where we are_

with The Eriskay Connection → p79 Tue 11 October / 19.00–23.00 (the discussions start at 19.30) X Stadsgalerij An evening on photo books with publisher The Eriskay Connection from Breda. In a talkshow setting, various photographers talk about their projects. Moderated by Edie Peters of the PhotoQ Bookshop.

interactive

Close Encounters → p56 Sun 16 October / 15.00 X Stadsgalerij Visit bredaphoto.nl for up to date information.

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Amateur photographer Weekend Interesting stories and instructive workshops

ta l k s h o w a n d t o u r s

Amateur Photographer Day → p80 Sat 15 October / 10.00–15.00 changing locations 9,50 This special day for amateur photo graphers includes a lecture by Magnum-photographer Carl De Keyzer → p27, 30, talks by teachers and participants of the Masterclass- programme → p81, a tour of the Human Rights Tattoo-exhibition → p75 and a tour of Chassépark XXL, a lecture about designing photo books, a boat trip and lunch. Registration required: bredaphoto.nl/ programma/weekend-amateurfotograaf

Invent solutions to society’s challenges → p56 Sat 8 October / 14.00–16.00 X Stadsgalerij

workshop

DIY: how to photograph the self-sufficient individual? → p80

Visit bredaphoto.nl for up to date information.

Sun 16 October / 10.00–17.00 L Nieuwe Veste, Molenstraat 6 25,–

interactive meetings

With Erik Boot and Leonie Muller, photography teachers at Nieuwe Veste.

Close Encounters → p56 Sun 9 October / 16.00 X Stadsgalerij

Registration required: bredaphoto.nl/ programma/weekend-amateurfotograaf

Visit bredaphoto.nl for up to date information.

special activities

WEEK 6: MON 17 – SUN 23 OCT grand opening

Atlas Residency: 7 students present their gesamtkunstwerk → p83 Sat 22 October / 19.00 K Atlas Initiatief, Belcrum Beach Seven students worked on a gesamtkunstwerk for four weeks on the Atlas boat. Tonight they present their results.

film

Solar Cinema: open-air cinema Sat 22 October / 20.00 11 STEK Solar Cinema presents one-minute films by illustration, animation, film and photography students of AKV | St. Joost. Solar Cinema is a moving cinema that stores solar energy by day and projects films on a big screen by night.

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Party with Gerst & Nat Sat 22 October / 22.00 B Podium Bloos, Speelhuislaan 151 With DJ-duo Gerst & Nat and live video-performance by Victor Goemaere → p28.

International Photography Student Weekend This weekend we celebrate talent. BredaPhoto presents itself once again as an international platform for new photographers.

WEEK 7: MON 24 – SUN 30 OCT c l o s i n g e v e n t a n d p r e s e n tat i o n

Ine Lamers – Solo 9 → p18, 66 Sat 29 October / 15.00 6 Club Solo Festive closure of Ine Lamers’ exhibition and the presentation of the accompanying publication.

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With STEK, Electron, KOP and Belcrum Beach, the Belcrum area is the hotspot in Breda for start-ups and visual artists 1 - o n - 1 c o n v e r s at i o n

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Portfolio reviews

Museumstreet: Exhibition in 7 living rooms → p69

Sat 22 October / 10.00–14.00 B Podium Bloos, Speelhuislaan 151 With photographers Robin de Puy and Carel van Hees, Joachim Naudts (curator & editor FOMU Antwerp) and Kim Knoppers (Foam, Amsterdam). Want to participate? Visit: bredaphoto.nl/programma/ internationaal-studentenweekend

Sun 25 September / 12.00–15.00 E Speelhuislaan 17,50 Admire photo series by students of AKV | St. Joost on Breda made with material from the city archives. Exhibition in seven living rooms and a walking lunch by De Gouden Radijs. Tickets: bredaphoto.nl/ programma/museumstraat

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With students of the BredaPhoto Talent Selection → p85

Belcrum-residents on their start-ups and studios → p56 Sat 29 October / 14.00–16.00 X Stadsgalerij

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Overslag Festival → p83 Sat 29 October / 18.00–02.00 different locaties in Belcrum During the closing weekend of BredaPhoto, image and sound come together in the cultural incubators STEK, Belcrum Beach, Pier15, Podium Bloos, Electron and KOP. Experience The Final Countdown.

Sat 22 October / 14.00–16.00 X Stadsgalerij

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Close Encounters → p56 interactive meetings

Close Encounters → p56

Sun 30 October / 15.00 X Stadsgalerij

Sun 23 October / 15.00 X Stadsgalerij

Visit bredaphoto.nl for up to date information.

Belcrum Weekend

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YOUrt: interactive

The Photographical Hammer: printing with hammers

every Tue–Sun / 10.00–17.00 X Stadsgalerij

various days changing locations

Next to the Stadsgalerij stands a Mongolian yurt, decorated with elements from the exhibited photos. Inside the YOUrt, you are the centre of a small universe. Here you can experiment with light and framing and make your own image. Post this image on Instagram with the hashtag #yourt_bp16 or print it on a button (pay as you like) and wear it on your clothes. Tag YOUrself: #YOURT_BP16. YOUrt is the sequel to the popular Studio Romantico of BredaPhoto 2014, where visitors could create and photograph their own scenes using elements of the exhibited photos.

Come and look at the Photographical Hammer, the moving camera obscura that prints with hammers, made by Maarten Heijkamp. This Amsterdam based artist won the design competition of BLASt (Breda Landscape, Architecture and City planning) and BredaPhoto. The moving camera obscura can make paper prints and photo graphical prints in relief. You’ll find Maarten Heijkamp with his ‘Photographical Hammer’ on different days and different locations. Check bredaphoto.nl for up to date information. 64

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mysterious tour with dinner

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BrabantNacht: visit top photographers with a flashlight

The Absent State: Photographer Bryan Schutmaat

Sat 17 September / 19.30–00.00 multiple locations 46,– (visitbrabant.nl/brabantnacht)

Sun 18 September / 13.30 5 MOTI

talks about drifters, hitchhikers and other travellers

Bryan Schutmaat – The Absent State → p15

Wiesje Peels – BredaPhoto 2014

Consider taking an exciting and mysterious tour on foot and by boat of the work of Magnum-photographer Carl De Keyzer → p27, 30 in De Faam and the outdoor exhibition in the Chassé park. Includes dinner and live music. During BrabantNight, an initiative of VisitBrabant, eight popular attractions in Brabant open their doors for you at an exciting and mysterious hour.

Bryan Schutmaat (usa) portrayed drifters, hitchhikers and other travellers in the southern United States. They escaped the safety of their homes, the pressure of consumerism or oppressive government ties. grand opening

Ine Lamers – Solo 9 Sun 18 September / 15.00 6 Club Solo

Club Solo invited Ine Lamers to BredaPhoto for a solo exhibition. She shows the installations proyekt Z and Collision and a night scene in a Rotterdam social housing project. → p18 66

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Schutmaat is one of the five photographers of The Absent State → p50, a unique collaboration between BredaPhoto and World Press Photo about self-sustainability in countries where there’s a minimal welfare state and social security. We’ve asked five photograpers and five writers from five continents to tell their stories. The results can be admired in the exhibition The Absent State in the courtyard of 2 Breda’s Museum. → p14 67

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Exhibition Opening Writing to Remember

A walking seven-course lunch in ‘Museum Street’ Visit 7 living room exhibitions

every Tue–Sun / 10.00–16.30 (Sat–Sun until 14.00) H Verzorgingshuis De Leystroom, Brabantlaan 5 open 24/7 (buitenexpositie in de tuin) J Seniorenresidentie Ruitersbos, Boeimeerweg 2

What do self-reliance and informal care mean to elderly people? Discover this in two exhibitions in nursing homes De Leystroom and Ruitersbos. The residents took photos of each other, resulting in touching images of small, but meaningful gestures. These ego-documents express strength as well as vulnerability. The photos were taken under the guidance of photographer IIse Wolf and Cora van Peer. Exhibition opening: – Thu 22 September at 16.00 in Verzorgingshuis De Leystroom – Fri 23 September at 15.30 in Seniorenresidentie Ruitersbos

Sun 25 September, Sun 30 October / 12.00–15.00 E Speelhuislaan 17,50 (bredaphoto.nl/programma/museumstraat)

Belcrum is the hotspot in Breda for start-ups and artists. It’s a posi tive example of YOU: self-reliance leading to creativity. The Speel huislaan has always been an important street in the former industri al area of Belcrum. Nowadays it connects the new train station with exciting places like 10 Belcrum Beach, 11 STEK and 13 Electron. With materials from the city archives, students of AKV | St. Joost made work on Breda and Belcrum. It’s exhibited in seven living rooms in the Speelhuislaan and can be visited in combination with a walking seven-course lunch, prepared by vegan caterer De Gouden Radijs. During the festival, the Speelhuislaan is a ‘Museum Street’, with images from every photo series. It makes for an even more pleasant walk to exhibitions in and around 10 Belcrum Beach and the old candy factory 12 De Faam.

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BN DeStem photo contest: YOU & BredaPhoto image: Ilse Wolf

A little bit of yourself and a bit of BredaPhoto. How do you experience the festival? Take a selfie with an exhibited photo, or shoot something else that’s typically you & BredaPhoto. Surprise us with your original view and grab our attention. Read more on bredaphoto.nl/photocontest. 68

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Image Hunters: Obsessive collectors present their best image collections

The Great Outdoors by Mike Harris:

Sat 24 September / 14.00–17.00 C Chassé Theater, Claudius Prinsenlaan 8

Sat 24 September / 14.00–16.00 (1-on-1 conversations with a.o. homeless people) X Stadsgalerij

15,– (incl. consumption, chasse.nl)

how to counter prejudice

Petra van der Put – Due to circumstances

Sun 25 September / 14.00–16.00 (Close Encounters, a.o. talk by Mike Harris) X Stadsgalerij

A street worker, a photographer, homeless people and their supervisors inform you about the problems and prejudices confronting the homeless. This two-day programme by BredaPhoto, Academie voor Beeldvorming and Stichting Maatschappelijke Opvang is inspired by The Great Outdoors, a photo series by Mike Harris → p21 on homeless people in Breda.

Mike Haris – The Great Outdoors → p21

Image Hunters is an online museum for personal image collec tions, often obsessively compiled on one particular theme. Today, the best image collectors present their remarkable series on the stage of the Chassé Theater. BredaPhoto and the 5 Museum of the Image (MOTI) present this second edition of Image Hunters. Thanks to the Internet and social media, collecting images is no longer the prerogative of museums. It has become common practice. Countless people share their images on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram or Tumblr. One person searches for images of flames, another looks for car for sale-signs, or women selling their w edding dress with obscured faces in their photos. Image Hunters sticks out because of their impressive collections on one theme. Also visit: beeldjagers.org. 70

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Children experience BredaPhoto It’s likely that you’ll run into a group of children during a visit to BredaPhoto. Stand still for a second and be surprised by their candid remarks to the ‘everyday annoyances’ Bianca Sistermans → p22 captured in photos. A roll of toilet paper hanging the wrong way round, bread crumbs in the butter, or wet swimming trunks on the bed: do children experience these annoyances as well? And what do they think of Informal Solutions, the inventive ways in which the inhabitants of Hong Kong claim their city, as captured by photographer Michael Wolf → p17, 23, 40? Approximately 2,000 children from Breda, Tilburg, Hilvarenbeek, Eersel and Bladel will visit the festival, exploring the festival theme YOU, the individual photographers and the festival feeling.

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Johan van der Keuken – We are 17 → p10

Young people portray their peers Inspiration We are 17 We Are 17 is the 1956 classic by photographer Johan van der Keuken → p10 that caused quite a stir at the time. He portrayed his friends and classmates in post-war Holland: self-aware, melancholy, but also very touching. Visit the exhibition at 1 Breda’s Museum.

We Are 17 was the reason to ask young people today to portray their peers. The best photographer will receive a prize and a publication in magazine DIGIFOTO. A selection of the photos can be seen during the last week of the festival. This competition is part of the youth programme, introducing youth to image and photography aspects. 72

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film

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Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)

Close Encounters Kosovo: Future Stories from the past

di 27 september [tijd onbekend] 6 Club Solo

Sat 1 October / 14.45–15.30 X Stadsgalerij

Werckmeister Harmonies, directed by Béla Tarr, is set in a small Hungarian village that’s visited by a circus. Its biggest attraction is The Prince. All the villagers come out to see him. But when he doesn’t appear, the sour mood turns into a revolt. This film is a big inspiration to Ine Lamers → p18: ‘In my projects I try to show that which doesn’t want to be seen.’

Photographer Willem Poelstra documents the aftermath of war: the scars of the Second World War in his own family and the wounds of the war in Kosovo. History keeps repeating itself. His project For Hanna. Future Stories from the Past was exhibited at BredaPhoto 2012. Four years later he shows the completed series in Kosovo, where the war has left deep fissures between different ethnic groups. Today, he shares his experience working on a long term project and a complex and sensitive topic.

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Close Encounters Sander van Bussel on Human Rights Tattoo

Ine Lamers – proyekt Z → p18

Sun 2 October / 16.30 X Stadsgalerij

Visual artist Sander van Bussel shares his experience. He wants to tattoo the 6773 letters of the 30 Universal Human Rights on as many bodies. The tattoos serve as a lasting reminder that these are everyone’s rights. He is currently halfway. 74

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De Mus: A picture is worth a thousand words?

Perpetual Plastic Project: From garbage to ring

Thu 6 October / 20.30–22.30 X Stadsgalerij 5,–

Sat 8 October / 10.00–17.00 X Stadsgalerij

De Mus is a monthly platform for artists from all backgrounds. This month, BredaPhoto takes the stage. Photographer Bianca Sistermans → p22 tells us about her Everyday Annoyances.

Bring your own plastic to BredaPhoto – plastic cups, plates, cutlery and con tainers (no plastic bottles, plastic bags or foil) – and see how it’s recycled and printed into an exclusive BredaPhoto ring on the spot.

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Discover your photography style in the Photo Booth Bianca Sistermans – Everyday Annoyances → p22

Sat 8 and Sun 9 October / 10.00–17.00 8 Chassépark 2,–

Turn yourself into a fashion photographer, nature photographer, architecture photographer or…whatever you like. Visit the Photo Booth and discover your own personal style. Let yourself be inspired by Thomas Van Den Driessche’s → p20 How to Be a Photographer in Four Lessons. Van Den Driessche ironically described different types of photographers and how to become one of them: the war photographer in leather jacket and Kabul scarf, or the conceptual photographer who takes himself too seriously as an artist. You can see the work of Thomas Van Den Driessche in Chassé XXL, Chassépark.

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Collodion Caravan: step by step Timeless portrait in shades of silver

PhotoQ, the BredaPhoto bookshop

Sat 8 and Sun 9 October / 10.00–17.00 8 Chassépark 50,– per portrait (reserve ahead: peter@beeldspraakfotografie.nl)

Tue–Sun / 10.00–17.00 (every Sat–Sun / 15.00: reviews, interviews) X Stadsgalerij (photoqbookshop.nl)

Once again, PhotoQ runs the BredaPhoto bookshop. There is an extensive selection of photo books. Every Saturday and Sunday at 15.00 there are book presentations, book signings, interviews and reviews.

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An evening with publisher The Eriskay Connection Tue 11 October / 19.00–23.00 (the discussions start at 19.30) X Stadsgalerij (eriskayconnection.com)

Nine photographers will talk about their work and the production of a photo book in a talkshow setting. The open discussions are moderated by Edie Peters of the PhotoQ Bookshop. Of course, every discussed book is also for sale in the BredaPhoto bookshop. With among others: Jos Jansen, Peter Dekens, Martino Marangoni, runo van den Elshout, Christopher J Everard en Laura Van Severen. B A special presentation of the old school photography project Collodion, also known as the wet plate technique, invented in 1851. This technique produces an amazing and timeless portrait in shades of silver. Have your portrait taken on the spot and take home the original photo and a digital scan. In a caravan with built in darkroom you can follow every step of the process: from coating and pouring the plate, developing the photo and watching the image appear, to the moment of fixation. 78

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Amateur Photographer Day

Deer in the BredaPhoto 2016 Masterclass

Sat 15 October / 10.00–15.00 12 De Faam 8 Chassépark X Stadsgalerij

9,50 (tickets at bredaphoto.nl)

Magnum-photographer Carl De Keyzer kicks off and tells us about Cuba, La Lucha, his series on the uncertain transition from com munism to capitalism in Cuba → p27, 30. Masterclass teachers (Jan Rosseel, Peter de Krom and Mariska van Zutven) and partici pants share their experiences of BredaPhoto’s programme for amateur photographers → p81. After a tour of the impressive Human Rights Tattoo-exhibition → p75 you’ll take a boat to the Stadsgalerij for lunch. There, graphic designer and publisher Rob van Hoesel gives a lecture. He has made attractive books for many photogra phers. Afterwards enjoy a tour of the outdoor exhibition Chassé XXL.

every day / 10.00–17.00 12 De Faam (entrance with passe-partout)

Every edition, BredaPhoto organises a masterclass for talented amateur photographers. This year, twenty-seven amateur photo graphers from the Netherlands and Belgium were admitted to the BredaPhoto Masterclass after two tough selection rounds. For six months they’ve worked on their photo series inspired by the theme YOU, under the guidance of professional photo graphers. Expect to see a house painter bringing back wandering deer to a nature reserve, and a mega utopia far away in space. Discover these series and more in De Faam.

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How to photograph the self-reliant individual? Sun 16 October / 10.00–17.00 L Nieuwe Veste, Molenstraat 6

25,00 (tickets at bredaphoto.nl)

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Natalie Vissers – Space to Dream

Together with two photography teachers of Stichting Nieuwe Veste, BredaPhoto offers two workshops. Erik Boot will take you to Chassé XXL. In small groups, you’ll photograph people inspired by the festival theme YOU. YOU: that’s the individual thrown back on his own resources. You’ll learn how to use light to elicit different atmospheres. With Leonie Muller you’ll build your own set and create funny or strange atmospheres. You’ll photograph each other as self-reliant individuals. Where lies your strength and your vulnerability? You’ll use a green screen so you can edit the background and location in later. Will it be New York, or maybe a suburb of Breda? 81

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Tom Janssen – Parade

Atlas Residency

17 Jul – 30 Oct, Tue–Sun / 10.00–17.00 (Sat–Sun from 12.00) G Vincent van GoghHuis (tuin), Markt 27 (Zundert)

every Saturday / 14.00–17.00 (opening 22 October / 19.00) K Atlas Initiatief, Belcrum Beach

Together with BredaPhoto, The Vincent van GoghHuis in Zundert shows Parade by Tom Janssen. For this series, Janssen made photos of the famous flower parade in Zundert. He consciously zooms out to show the surroundings and the crowds as well as the floats lavishly decorated with flowers.

Under the motto BredaPhoto Pictures the Future, seven art academy students and recent graduates are challenged to make a gesamtkunstwerk. On a Polish fishing boat, they explore the boundaries of cooperation and individualism, using art and photography as a medium. You can follow this project from 25 September on the Atlas boat. The end result is presented during the Grand Opening on 22 October.

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Overslag Festival Sat 29 October / 20.00–02.00 Belcrum

The new Overslag music festival by hotspot Belcrum is the closing act of BredaPhoto. Image and sound are joined in the differ ent cultural incubators. 11 STEK, 10 Belcrum Beach, F Pier15, B Podium Bloos, 13 Electron, KOP and Pop Organisatie Breda (POB) present a selection of regional bands.

Tom Janssen – Parade

Overslag presents image and music on the border of different genres and disciplines. Raw, talented concepts are presented in an environment that leaves room for experiment. Experience The Final Countdown, inspired by the 2000 YouTubeclips of this song, collected by Koen Theys → p28, 36. Hop from location to location and enjoy the images, drinks and lots of music. 82

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BredaPhoto Talent Selection: springboard for success every day / 10.00–17.00 different locaties (more information at bredaphoto.nl)

BredaPhoto offers young, upcoming talent a platform under the motto BredaPhoto Pictures the Future. BredaPhoto works together with seven art academies from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany (AKV | St. Joost Breda, KASK Ghent, KASK Antwerp, LUCA School of Arts campus NARAFI and campus Sint-Lukas Brussels, KABK Den Haag, FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences). More than 170 students participated, fifty of them pitched their work and sixteen were selected to exhibit their work at the festival.

Alexey Shlyk – The Appleseed Necklace → p22

Previous festival editions have proven that BredaPhoto is an important springboard for success. Photographers like Tom Callemin (bel), Max Pinckers (bel), Peter de Krom (nld) and Sanne de Wilde (bel) made their debut at BredaPhoto and found their way to national and international platforms.

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