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Romain Mader
ROMAIN MADER (b. 1988, CH) studied photography at the University of Arts & Design (ECAL) Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2017, Mader was selected as the eleventh winner of the prestigious Foam Paul Huf Award. Mader’s work has been shown in venues including Tate Modern, London and OCAT, Shanghai, and featured in publications such as The Washington Post, Vice, Art Daily, British Journal of Photography, Tate Etc., and GUP Magazine.
Images on p.38 from the series Moi Avec Des F illes and The Girlfriend Experience © Romain Mader, c ourtesy of the artist All other images from the series Ekaterina © Romain Mader, courtesy of the artist
MIRJAM KOOIMAN (b. 1990, NL) is a curator at Foam, where she has worked on shows including Harley Weir — Boundaries, Ai Weiwei — #SafePassage. She holds a BA in Art History and an MA in Curating from the University of Amsterdam, with a special interest in postcolonial approaches in the arts and museum studies. She previously served as a curator-intraining at the photography collection of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. Mirjam lives and works in Amsterdam.
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