BA Photography - CIRCLE newsletter #1

welcome to what we hope will become a link, a platform, a critical read, a humorist piece, a source of resources, and a social exchange: Welcome to CIRCLE, a newsletter by (and for) the community of the photography department.

Before we begin bringing you all kinds of news and connections, let us start with some down-toearth yet highly idealistic thoughts: Our world and the professional realm that we are about to enter (or are part of already), are - to say the least - challenging. Both as humans and as photographers, we face the systematic struggles of our worlds, some of us experience these injus tices, disrespect, and oppression of race, culture, gender, and communities.

Some of these struggles are also faced within KABK, and within the photography department.

We want to address what we think needs addressing.

We want to have our feet on the floor.

We want to be decent human beings at a time where it is difficult to distinguish between infor mation and noise. We want to use our images to transform our worlds. And we want to look for a community within these walls.

A community that cares, that understands and disagrees passionately, that rebels against sys tematic oppression and does so without forgetting respect - a community that curiously and furiously challenges the world as is inside and outside these walls, to be more inclusive, caring, and truthful, and truly creative.

These are high aims, hardly to be reached with a newsletter.

Our small but caringly-played part here is to share what is happening in our studies, our school, our students, teachers, and alumni's artistic lives, what we are thinking about (or should think about more), what is technology doing for us, and what is up in the world of photography.

It is a small but warm attempt at creating a community, connections, and care.

So we ask you:

What are the topics you want to discuss?

What are the issues you want to raise?

What are the celebrations you want to share?

We hope to hear from you all!

In the meantime: enjoy our first issue!

Floorplan [Second Floor]

Did you know … that the room names are not random? Look at A, B, C, D!

Looking Back

New TeammaTes

We are happy to welcome new colleagues: Daniel Siegersma (alumn MA Photography and Society) and Peter Zuiderwijk are co-teaching 'Spatial Design’ in the 3rd year after Tom van Kints retired at the end of last year.

Xaver Könneker (Alumn MA Photography and Society) has taken over theory.

Lina Selg (almun, Pineapple Road Press) is working together with John Fleetwood and a group of stu dents on the photography department newsletter. She is also temporarily supporting the photo office while Linda van der Pool and Danielle Rosca are on leave.

Alex Avgud (alumn) has joined the team as well, taking on – among other tasks – office support, social media, network week support etc.

Mischa Appel is currently teaching the first years in their first workshop weeks – the poster project.

Welcome, everyone! We are looking forward to getting to know each other better.

sepTember 2022

Start of Academic Year 2022-2023

29.09. Opening Lecture by Andy Sewell

A new round of new first years joined us, welcome! Find their faces in the "Family Portraits"

Transgressive behavior within the Fine Art Department

There is an ongoing investigation regarding trans gressive behavior from a Fine Art Department

Teacher, whose contract was subsequently ended. Police continue to investigate the case. KABK and Photo Dept discussed this with students and staff to find ways of addressing how this affects our collec tive culture and community of care and can be pre vented by openness and a clear Code of Conduct.

OkTOber 2022

20.10. A new Code of Conduct

If you wish to read the new Code of Conduct you can find it here on the portal

03.11. Donald Weber announced his future plans –a move to Finland! We’re crying but we’re happy for him. Any last (or first) questions for Don? Send them to us, we’ll catch him before he leaves!

10.11. – 13.11. Paris Photo 2022

Various teachers, students, and alumni attended Paris Photo this year, among them Donald Weber, who gave a talk about ‘the information front’ and alumna Katerina Motylova whose graduation work ‘Loss’ was shortlisted for the Aperture Paris Photo Book Award. Emily Josephine Rooney (alumna, pineapple road press) collected some of her favorite books during the weekend, find them on page XX

16.11.

Teacher’s Day no2

The second teachers’ day of ‘22-’23 took place – a key focus of the workshops and discussions was intercultural understanding and how it can be trans lated into the curriculum, and dualities such as self/ relevance, documentary/fiction….

26.11. Open Day 2022

What a day! We’re curious whose face we might see again in the next year.....good luck to everyone applying to the BA photography!

Collective Assessments 1, 3, 7

Find all dates and information in your CA Teams channels, for example: PHft2D_CA3. If you haven’t seen the channel before, check under hidden chan nels (below your list of channels).

PH1: 19.12/20.12/21.12

PH2: 16.12/19.12/20.12

PH4: 13.12/14.12/15.12

Winter Break

22nd December, 5 pm: you’re free! Enjoy your break.

JaNuary 2023

Network week 2023 ‚Common Ground‘

This year's Network Week will take place 16/1 - 19/1.

Speed Dating Event

Coming January 2023. Keep your eyes open for posters!

Edu Com meetings happen regularly about every 6 weeks, please chat with your class rep about this, see the minutes.

20.10. – 20.10 The Fool Collective Exhibition in Cologne

Following their fieldtrip last year, students of the Fool Collective were invited to exhibit their work produced for the fieldtrip in Cologne at a sympo sium. At the same symposium, co-heads Lotte Sprenger and John Fleetwood presented a discus sion on our dept. See more on page XXX

NOvember 2022

01.11. – 15.11 Dirk-Jan Visser and alumni Gus Drake attend COP27

Dirk-Jan and Gus traveled to the Sinai desert to work on their new collaborative project New Horizon Initiative and then presented it at the COP27. See some first visuals in their feature.

December 2022

03.12. – 11.12 KABK explores exchange opportuni ties in India

Together with other heads of department, John Fleetwood will travel to India on an exploratory trip to find exchange opportunities for KABK with Indian counterparts. They will visit institutions in Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and New Delhi.

12.12. Fieldtrip Destination Announcement

The destination of the 2nd year fieldtrip will be revealed on Dec 12 at 11h30 at the academy, streamed online for PT

FAMILY PORTRAIT (2022), by PH1, Introduction Week

“I had to turn things around, not see it through his eyes, but tell the story directly through the eyes of the women.”

BH: What is Angels of Amsterdam?

AA: Angels of Amsterdam is a virtual reality work where you are in a 17th-century cafe in Amsterdam. It‘s a cafe that really exists, and there are lots of people around you, just like in a real cafe. When you are open for contact and your eyes meet for 10 seconds, somebody comes to you and shares a little bit of their lives. But when you‘re shy and you look away, you look in your glass, not so much happens. So everybody has a little bit of a different experience.

Beerend Honing: Can you tell me a little bit about yourself and your practice?

Anna Abrahams: I do anything I can get my hands on that is related to art as moving image. So I‘ve made films, I’ve made virtual reality pieces, I teach, I‘ve written a lot and I curate film programs and vir tual reality for Eye Film Museum Amsterdam. I really love all these things. I started mainly as a filmmaker and writer and now I have shifted more toward cu rating. But then, every four years or so, you have to leave the KABK as a teacher for a while. And then suddenly for a whole year, I had one day a week free. I thought: ‘Wow, this is my chance. I‘m going to make something again that I really, really want to do.’ I wanted to make a virtual reality piece because this new medium really fascinates me. The subject mat ter, I had already carried around in my back pocket for like five years. It‘s called Angels of Amsterdam.

One of the characters you meet is a girl who came to Amsterdam, and she couldn‘t make a living. Then she did two jobs; she still couldn‘t make a living. But she was really smart: She stole some men‘s clothing, she went behind the church, took off her room‘s clothing, put on men‘s clothes, and then she did the same job and she earned enough money. It‘s still exactly the same. Even though it talks about 17th-century women, it‘s actually about young women now.

BH: Did the project change in the process of making?

AA: The perspective changed. It started with a book from the 17th century that I found. It‘s called Whores of Amsterdam. The book was about some one giving a tour through the red light District of Amsterdam. And so I had this guy as a starting point. Only after a while did I think: ‘well, that‘s wrong. This man is inviting you to the women, but It‘s the women that interest me!’ So I threw him out. <laugh> It really took me maybe half a year before I finally understood that this was just the wrong perspective. I had to turn things around, not see it through his eyes, but tell the story directly through the eyes of the women. That was a big step.

Anna Abrahams is a writer, (VR) filmmaker, curator at Eye Filmmuseum and she teaches Audiovisual in the second year of the Bachelor Photography

BH: For the funding of the project, you were supported by the Filmfonds, Stimuleringsfonds en Amsterdam fonds voor de kunst (AFK), and so I was wondering, how does that process of receiving funding look like?

AA: Well, when you write for the film fund, you do it in phases. The first phase is research development, so that‘s everything you do before you can start producing. And when they give you this, this means that they trust you already. So then if you do what you say that you are going to do, the chances are quite big that you also get the production money. And then later you can also ask for post-production. The first time I sent the proposal to AFK, I still had the wrong perspective and they were quite critical of it. I didn‘t really understand why, and it was not accepted. And then the second time I changed the perspective and then it was accepted.

BH: What were they critical of?

AA: They said: ’we are not waiting for another story about 17th-century Amsterdam with lots of prostitutes.’ They thought it was too much of a cliche, maybe.

BH: I would imagine it is very difficult as a filmmaker if you always depend on funding to stay true to yourself. Do you ever adapt your ideas or concepts to the application for the funding?

AA: No. And I never did. But for now, I don‘t have to live from this because I have a job as a curator, have a job here, so I really do it because I‘m passionate about it. If you have to make a living solely on making, then of course the chances are bigger that you have to adapt to the big funders. They have all these programs now adays. So they are quite clear about what they‘re in terested in. And then there‘s always a little part of the funding that is open. And I go to these open things. But it‘s always good to find out what the special programs of the big funders are.

BH: What do you look out for when writing a proposal?

AA: Just go to the website of the film fund and see what the possibilities are. I know they have all kinds of things for the first or second film. There are these programs like: five young people can make a film about first love or something.

BH: Would they really say what the topic should be?

AA: Yes. Also, photography grants work mostly with themes. It‘s different from the Mondrian art fund. They look mainly at, are you graduated from an art academy? Do you have a gallery? How many exhi bitions did you have? If that‘s okay, you‘re okay and it‘s less important what your plan actually is.

BH: Have you learned anything from your experience of writing proposals?

AA: As someone who has also been on boards for funds, I would say really write it like it is a film. So think visually when you are writing, it‘s not an aca demic article. give the people that read it the feel ing that they‘ve already seen a glimpse of your film.

BH: I have one final question. Do you have any advice for our readers?

AA: I’ve always traveled a lot for the films and I think it‘s really important that even though you talk about very distant places, you always stay really close to yourself.

BH: Well Anna, thank you for your time. <ends recording>

AA: Thank you for inviting me. How long is it?

BH: 39 minutes.

AA: Okay. Don‘t, don‘t even listen to it anymore. Right now, write down what you thought was interesting.

ANECDOTE:

Impromptu practical real world examples

by rubeN DiJksTal

By a whimsical of the cuff suggestion, our class went on a day trip to Antwerpen to see two exhibitions, The fashion muse um in Antwerp and the colonial expo in the Fomu. At 9.30 our Flixbus to Antwerpen central would leave and as our class rep nervously checks his watch hoping that the latecomer will be on time, we all file into the bus. Approximately three hours later we arrive and walk to the fashion museum. We all get our wrist bands and drop our jackets and bags.

In the permanent collection, a brief history of the evolu tion of fashion from absurdism to deconstruction and our cur rent minimalism. The infamous Antwerp six and their prodigies like Raf Simons and Martin Margiela. As we walk out, some of us come to the conclusion that they do photography for a rea son and others find inspiration in the creative language of the garment.

Slightly overstimulated and hungry we make our way to “Only affordable cafe with good food” according to our teacher Ari Versluis, I must say he wasn’t wrong. While the waiter takes all seventeen orders, we start to discuss what we had just seen or what we might see in the Fomu.

All that differed from a normal class setting was the sun shining freely and the cool breeze and perhaps the rather unu sual table layout. The Fomu was right across from the Pita cafe, and with full bellies we started to explore “Recaptioning Conga”. An exhibition on the time in which the Congo was a colony of Belgium. A well-created and contextualized expo but non the less quite heavy. One by one we all reached the point that you look at what’s on the walls but you don’t absorb any of its con tent. Feat sore and young brains buzzing, half of us headed to a cafe to close out the day with some drinks and others rushed to catch their bus back.

① — ③ WORKBOOK

topic of “masculinity”

Tim Ross

PH2]

(2022) by Tim Ross, PH2, visual research into the

favourite BOOKS from Paris Photo 2022

review

→ ①

IF I CALL STONES BLUE IT IS BECAUSE BLUE IS THE PRECISE WORD, BY JOSELITO

VERSCHAEVE / Precious at tention to the photo graphic craft. A unique poetic voice. ‘If I Call Stones Blue, It Is Because Blue Is The Precise Word’ is Joselito Verschaeve’s first monograph. It puts order to the artist’s work that is placed between day-to-day encounters and fic tion. Verschaeve’s personal experiences interweave short stories, optimism, and dystopia.

With a simple design and all blackand-white images, this book brings together an array of subject matter, characters, and places to represent the world as what feels like a fantasy. It twists any expectations of what will come next. I even feel that some imag es have a Tim Burton-esc aura.

→

② THE OKAMA PARADOX, CLARA GASSULL QUER & ISRAEL ARIÑO

/ The book is part of a shared journey. It is a dia logue between @israelarino’s photographs and @claragas sull’s drawings. It begins

[Emily Josephine’s Favourite Books from Paris Photo 2022 / Alumni]

with a phrase taken from the travel notebook, a paradox about what we see and what we don’t see. The dialogue be tween both languages is a search around this question.

review What I like most about this book is that it is a collaboration between partners. I find that very romantic. She is a fine artist and he is a pho tographer. I like that it is two perspec tives on one thought or one place. both the images and the drawings inform each other and create a new summary of experience that wouldn't be possible with only one or the other.

review

This sketchbook like "photobook" was unique among all of the tables I discovered. Images were very small fractions of the subject matter. Mostly it was drawings and pencil marks that extended from photo clippings of female figures and what looked to me like an underwater world. It is playful and pleasingly organized composi tions across the pages. I even feel that some images have a Tim Burtonesc aura.

review

→ ⑤

YOU FELT THE ROOTS

GROW BY SABINE HESS / “is a personal project in which I explore notions of home, belonging, illness, and absence through the documentation of my family.”

but it still kept me turning the pages to see more. It is a very unique pro cess to see so intimately.

→ ⑦ THE AUTUMNS

OF SPRING

BY JORDAN SULLIVAN / The book takes the viewer on a disorientating trip around Claude Monet’s gardens at Giverny, with close-up photographs of acid-coloured flowers and soft focus imagery. The book comes with a signed print and is accompa nied by an album titled ‘In the Garden of Sorrowful Suns’ by Jordan’s musical project The Sun At Night.

→ ④

ONE STAR AND A DARK VOYAGE BY BARBARA BOSWORTH

→ ③

SLEEPING STATE OF BEING (CREATURES OF DAY AND NIGHT BY

SARA SKORGAN TEIGEN / The sketchbook has always been used as a tool to study and under stand nature by drawing. My sketchbooks with pho tographs, drawings, and collages become the physical gathering point where im pressions and observations of the out side world and my inner world meet. The psychological truth takes physical form and is manifested in the pages of the sketchbook; studying and drawing struc tures taken from nature gives me time to reflect on how forms and rules coex ist. I use myself as subject and object, playing, wondering, and questioning my own role in life, and moving between the personal and the archetypal. I map my inner landscapes through the design of the sketchbook's pages.

/ In One Star and a Dark Voyage, we are brought into intimate commun ion with such things as a wound on a sun-freckled shin, a worm as stigma ta in a child’s hand, a bird lying in a cupped hand, a body hovering in the darkness, the spot where an elk slept – all evoking the ephemeral nature of life.

review

By using the subject matter of animals, natural phenomena, and many human hands these photo graphs give me a comforting remind er of the natural beauty of things and processing in life. They show death, often at the hands of humans, and life through lighting, trees, and motion.

This book was a very emotional ride for me. Telling the story of cop ing with losing her father, I ached under the sentimental weight of even how she photographed a tree in a way that made it look as if it were in mourning. Along with the text scat tered throughout, the images are sweet, soft, and careful perspectives of everyday life before and after her father's passing.

→ ⑥ MAKTAK AND GASOLINE BY ELLIS DOEVEN / The book “Maktak and Gasoline” was published in April 2018. It is a photo project about Point Hope, an in digenous whaling community in Arctic Alaska. nous whaling community in Arctic Alaska.

review

I found this book intruiging for its design, and for its raw perspective of chopping up a whale. I found it hard to look at the pink flesh and the huge sheets of skin laid out on the snow

review

This small-format book was sweet and made me smile. It's a book full of flowers. Sometimes it can be so simple! Sweet bright flowers in a sweet small book.

[Emily Josephine’s Favourite Books from Paris Photo 2022 / Alumni]

Questions from the Chat

Fool Collective Exhibition in Cologne

Following their fieldtrip last year, students of the Fool Collective (PH3) were invited to put together an exhi bition in Cologne as part of the sym posium ‚We do/are photography‘ of the Internationale Photoszene Köln. During the symposium, co-heads Lotte Sprengers and John Fleetwood talked about the KABK, and the new ly printed publication ‚Trickle‘ was on the table for the very first time, fresh from the printers!

We’re showing you some visuals from the exhibition, the build-up, and the talk, as well as two of the fieldtrip projects: ‚Edleweisspiraten sind treu’ by Giulia Menicucci and ‚hereinspazi ert‘ by Hannah Schleifer.

[Student Feature: Fool Collective, Giulia Menicucci, Hannah Schleifer / PH3]

→ FOOL COLLECTIVE (2022), exhibition build-up in Cologne, snapshot by Giulia Menicucci

Fieldtrip Work by Giulia Menicucci

FOOl cOllecTive

"None of the boys and girls who hid in the woods are still alive, they who road their bicycles and camped in the countryside with their guitars and their desire to be young and free. It was 1934 when the songs of the Edelweißpiraten began to echo through a Germany increasingly re stricted by a more and more violent regime. In my work, I have followed the paths of those boys and girls who took many risks in order to be free, accompanied by the memories of those who heard their stories while growing up, children of the juvenile resistance."

↳ ↱ EDELWEISSPIRATEN SIND TREU (2021), Giulia Menicucci @giuliamenic, fieldtrip Cologne

Fieldtrip Work by Hannah Schleifer

FOOl cOllecTive

"What is it like to be in a unified place that is actually constructed for people to live their individual lives in?

The Uni Center presents itself as an own cosmos which a couple of thou sand people navigate in. Shouldn’t this amount of people leave traces of per sonality and community? By spend ing time in the building and moving through it I am trying to find answers to these questions and to capture the daunting discretion the place evokes."

↳ HEREINSPAZIERT (2021), Hannah Schleifer @hannahschleiferww, fieldtrip Cologne

Frequently Asked Questions about KABK RENTAL

Did you know.....that you can find EVERYTHING you want to know on the portal? Pretty handy, we know. Here’s how you get there: Portal.kabk.nl -> Facilities&Workshops -> SEE ALL WORKSHOPS -> Photography Workshop / -> Rental.

But as a one-time special we have also put together the most important info for you here:

Where do I find …?

Photography Rental Upstairs

available equipmeNT [Full Overview ON The pOrTal]

Foto equipment such as cameras, lenses, flashes, analogue equipment, tripods, light stands, filters …

General Rental Downstairs

available equipmeNT [Full Overview ON The pOrTal] Tripods, construction lights, audio&film equipment, go pros, ipads, and laptops, headphones, (slide)pro jectors, drills & jigsaws …

geNeral prices [… DepeND ON hOw Nice yOu are ;) ]

List of prices for the upstairs rental:

https://portal.kabk.nl/the-kabk/student-services/work shops/photography-workshops/equipment [↗]

geNeral prices

List of prices for the downstairs rental: https://portal.kabk.nl/the-kabk/student-services/work shops/rental/equipment [↗]

OpeNiNg Times

Monday and Tuesday 08:45 — 21:30h Wednesday 10:00 — 21:30h Thursday and Friday 09:00 — 21:30h Saturdays 10:00 — 16:30h

OpeNiNg Times

Monday to Thursday 08:30 — 19:30h Friday 08:30 — 17:00h

aNyThiNg else yOu cOulD NeeD … … you can find on the portal. Don’t forget to: be nice / return things in time and undamaged / respect your rental

PERMANENTLY OPEN

OpeN Envision Arts Magazine [↗]

Entry Fee: free

OpeN Galerie Asterisk [↗]

Note: Upload image to be retrospectively exhibited in the year you birth a child Entry Fee: free

OpeN Open Eye Gallery [↗]

Entry Fee: free

JANUARY 2023

16.01. Fotografia Europea [↗]

Theme: EUROPE MATTERS Visions of a rest less identity Entry Fee: 25€

23.01. Letternetwork [↗]

Alumni Lilli Weinstein and Marco Verhoogt are creating a multi-media letter network across European borders. Any artist whose work can be framed by a mailable envelope is welcome to join.

Entry Fee: free

COOL EXHIBITIONS / PHOTOGRAPHY EVENTS

02.08. — 09.01.23

Fiona Tan – Mountains and Molehills, The Eye Filmmuseum

01.10. — 29.01.23

Anne Imhof -Youth, multimedia installations in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 04.11. — 08.01.23

Jonas Bendiksen – The Book of Veles, Beeld & Geluid Den Haag 16.11. — 4.12.23

HOUSING / STUDIOS / SUBLETS

Leaving your place, need a new renter? Have a room to sublet? Looking for a new studio mate?

Let us know and we’ll put it out there!

RANDOM COOL STUFF

Cheap beer, punk parties, vegan food, and activism? Go to De Samenscholing (@desa menscholing @waterenbrood)

KABK Filmhouse Screenings

DECEMBER 2022

01.12. FotoEvidence Book Award [↗] open to professional and amateur pho tographers who are documenting the war in Ukraine

Entry Fee: free

07.12. LoosenArt A Shared Table [↗]

Theme: food, conviviality, domestic hospitality.

Accepted media: Photography, Digital Visual Design, Video Entry Fee: free

16.12. Coveted III: New Histories [↗]

Digital arts, new media Theme: identity and gender Entry Fee: free

20.12. FOTOFESTIWAL [↗]

Entry Fee: 15€ per project

20.12. Revela’t [↗]

Contemporary Analogue Photography Festival

Theme: PATHS. An open, simple, and sug gestive theme, which can take us to many places; paths of life, imaginary, marked, or peripatetic paths; or the literal path, which gives us the opportunity to discover new landscapes. Show us your way, how far do you want to go?

Entry Fee: free

31.12. 68elf ‘water’ [↗]

Entry Fee: free

FEBRUARY 2023

04.02. BELFAST Photo Festival [↗]

Entry Fee: Early bird 23€, regular 29€

MARCH 2023

31.03. PULP Gallery Solo Show 2024 [↗] Entries need to be submitted via Instagram

Entry Fee: free

Nieuw Talent 2022: ‘Unexpected Stories’ at Firma Van Drie Gouda Showcasing work by alumni Emily Josephine Rooney and Daan Kamerman

26.11. — 26.03.23

Judith Joy Ross, Fotomuseum Den Haag 08.12. — 12.02.23

Paul Kooiker- Fashion- Foam Amsterdam 15.12. (TO be cONFirmeD)

Asser Institute: Exposure, solidarity, resist ance: photographing the daily life of human rights

PHOTOGRAPHY PODCASTS

A small voice: Conversations with photogra phers by Ben Smith Foam | All about photography Balcony Podcast, Hanna Burgers Photography & Society: The Podcast The Messy Truth PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf

Share your wisdom with us ;)

Open Call Letternetwork [↗] by Lilli Weinstein and Marco Verhoogt

New Horizon Initiative

Lecturer Dirk-Jan Visser and alumnus Gus Drake traveled to the Sinai desert to create and present first images of their new collaborative project 'New Horizon Initiative' at COP27.

The project analyzes and visualizes the different interests of non-juman life in a landscape to facilitate inclusive decision-making.

by Dirk-JaN visser aND gus Drake

@newhorizon_initiative

① Just landed at the UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) in Sharm-El-Sheikh, work ing on New Horizon Initiative which we will be going to present here in collab oration with What Design Can Do.   Over the next few days, we are working in the Sinai desert to photograph dif ferent landscape elements highlighting the needs of plants and animals to sur vive. All our images will be used to do a visual stakeholder analyze. With the support of Artificial Intelligence, we will envision an imaginary landscape of Sharm-El-Sheikh could look like, taking the interests of non-human life (plants and animals) into account.

② Roaming the desert around, surveying and photographing the needs of plants and animals in this fascinating land scape. What is the perspective of a snake when its sees only heat (thank you FLIR Systems). Capturing over 2500 imag es to envision an imaginary landscape of Sharm-El-Sheikh could look like, taking the interests of non-human life (plants and animals) into account.

③ During the last few days we have been surveying over 2500 images of vegetation and landscape elements that are important for different types of species to be suc cessful. Taking the research of Mohamed Z. Hatim from Wageningen University & Research University as a starting point, we are creating through Artificial Intelligence two landscapes on how SharmEl-Sheikh can look like taking the inter ests of non-human life into account as part of New Horizon Initiative.

Alumni Feature: New Horizon Initiative]

④ What an amazing opportunity it was to present our prototype of the New Horizon method at the UN Climate Change Summit COP27 in Sharm-El-Sheikh.

Through this method we envision alter native views addressed to policymakers, CEOs and politicians to include the in terests of non-human life in designing policy, and advocacy for the rights of nature as part of a legal framework. We had interesting conversations and made arrangements for follow-up.

To be continued …

Alumni Feature: New Horizon Initiative]

You can reach us with questions, thoughts, ideas and more at circlenews@kabk.nl

Beerend Honing

Hi! I’m Beerend from the first year and my favorite place in KABK is the basement shop because every time I walk in there, I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Paula Punkstina

I’m a second year doc umentary student and I wear black clothing 98% of the time. Anna Rogneby I’m also in second year documentary, but I am knitting 98% of the time.

cONTribuTiONs by Anna Abrahams, PH1, Ruben Dijkstal, Tim Ross, Emily Josephine Rooney, Paula Punkstina, Anna Rogneby, PH2, Fool Collective, Giulia Menicucci, Hannah Schleifer, Dirk-Jan Visser, Gus Drake, Lina Selg, John Fleetwood.

visual iDeNTiTy aND arT DirecTiON by Jenny Konrad (mail@jennykonrad.com)

FONTs by Samara Keller (Tempos Mono), Stefan Wetterstrand (Lunchtype)

publisheD by the Photography Department of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in collaboration with alumni from the Pineapple Road Press

issue#1 December 2022 Den Haag, Netherlands

Lina Selg photo alumni with strong activistic tendencies, co-founder of Pineapple Road Press. John Fleetwood co-head of the Photography Department. Community, curiosity, complexity.

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