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Every year FOMU selects ten promising phototographers, all living or working in Belgium. Discover the selected artists for .tiff 2024

Alison Rossiter (º1953, Jackson, Mississippi, US) lives and works in New York. Rossiter creates photographs without a camera, using vintage photographic paper. FOMU is proud to own the work Gevaert Gevaluxe Velours, by Alison Rossiter.

FOMU presents the first retrospective in Belgium of the American photographer Cindy Sherman.

Dirk Braeckman (BE, °1958) has explored the medium of photography in sombre/dark and understated images, for over forty years.

Curator Rein Deslé, directeur van de Verbund Collectie Gabriele Schor en topmodel Hannelore Knuts reflecteren op het werk van Cindy Sherman. Wat is het dat hen raakt in Shermans beelden?

Starting this month, you can access the information digitized by FOMU as part of the Gevaert Paper Project through a Wikibase database. This database aims to make the information accessible to a wide audience.

By making the Gevaert archive - with more than 377 types of photographic paper and 1300 photo packaging - publicly accessible, FOMU keeps knowledge about analogue photography and photo paper alive.

Sherman’s work is immediately comprehensible. In mere seconds, we recognize what Sherman aims to display, yet she never fully reaches complete representation of the characters she presents – not because she’s incapable, but because she wants her work to exist on the border of reality and imagination.