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

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.

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.

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 and creative agency Mutant™ again join forces for FOMUTATIONS, an experimental format of in depht talks by internationally renowned image makers. They challenge existing perspectives on visual culture and spark debate—an innovative format that encourages dialogue and new ways of seeing. 

Hoe kijken zoon Antony Penrose en kleindochter Ami Bouhassane naar hun beroemde (groot)moeder Lee Miller? In deze video gaan ze met elkaar in gesprek over haar fascinerende leven en werk.  

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.

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

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.