Interview with Dirk Braeckman: "It is often said about me that I am more of a painter than a photographer."
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.
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.
In response to the overview exhibition at FOMU, we engaged in a conversation with James Barnor. His versatile talent and influential images make him a pioneer in the history of photography.
FOMU presents the first retrospective in Belgium of the American photographer Cindy Sherman.
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.