Need feedback on your project?
Michaela Nagyidaiová and Wanderstories invite a small group of participants (max. 8) to join an informal sharing session. This is not a traditional portfolio review, but a space for artists to bring works in progress—whether photography, video, or other media—and exchange feedback, ideas, and support.
The session is designed for those who often work alone or feel stuck in their projects, offering a collective and reflective environment. Michaela and Wanderstories will guide the conversation and hold a supportive space, facilitating an open and safe environment where everyone can contribute, listen, and explore their work together.
Who can participate?
The session is open to visual storytellers, artists, and students at any stage of their project, from early ideas to finished work.
What should I bring?
You are welcome to bring prints, objects, or simply present your work—whatever best represents your practice to the group.
EVENT DETAILS
29 April 2026 | 18:30–21:30
FUTURES Hub
Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
SIGN UP HERE – free access
About Wanderstories:
Wanderstories is a peer-to-peer feedback community for photographers and visual storytellers, hosted in partnership with Fotodok Utrecht. They meet regularly to share works in progress, exchange constructive feedback, and encourage dialogue through photobooks, films, and conversations around creative practice. Wanderstories provides a supportive space to gain new perspectives and grow as a visual artist.
As part of the FUTURES Residency, we are excited to welcome Eleni Onasoglou to the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (Budapest), where she is developing her project “The Silence of the Beasts.”
Eleni’s work explores memory, the constructed and fractured past, and the fragile relationship between humans and the natural world. Using a distinct black-and-white visual language, her practice moves between poetry and darkness, focusing on silent tensions, lingering traces, and elements that haunt personal and collective experience.
“The zoo is a prison with a beautiful facade. There, nature is presented to the public as safe, orderly, and sterilized. Animals are exhibited as objects of observation: creatures without their ecosystem, without purpose, without choice. I am interested in exploring the pain of their silence, the empty gaze, the patience, and the resignation.” – Eleni Onasoglou
Event Details:
Date: Friday, 24 April 2026
Time: 17:00 – 18:00
Venue: Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Event Hall
Admission: Free
Language: English
Description
Please join us for the first FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight of 2026 with Parisa Aminolahi.
Paris Aminolahi will present her first photo-book, How the Nights Can Fly, published by Huwawabooks.
How the Nights Can Fly (formerly Tehran Diary) is a long-term photographic project by Parisa Aminolahi, tracing the intimate life of her mother across Tehran and temporary reunions with her children living abroad. Begun in 2012, the work reflects on distance, migration, aging, and the quiet weight of filial love shaped by the Iranian diaspora following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Photographed on 35mm black-and-white film and later intervened with acrylic paint on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper Supreme, the images form a hybrid language between photography and painting. The painted gestures transform everyday moments into surreal, tactile spaces, echoing both the emotional distance between mother and child and the artist’s attempt to hold on to presence across continents.
Over time, the project became a deeply personal and therapeutic process, with the artist’s mother emerging as both subject and muse. Following her mother’s passing in 2022, the work gained a new resonance, shifting from documentation toward memory, absence, and care.
The dummy was developed under the guidance of Corinne Noordenbos and has since evolved through a new edit, concept, and title in collaboration and under the guidance of designer and publisher Roï Saade. The book is envisioned to be published by Huwawabooks, Saade’s newly founded publishing house.
Previously titled Tehran Diary, the project has received wide international recognition, including being shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award, BUP Book Award, and PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, and has been exhibited and published extensively worldwide.
Details:
Online
Tuesday 14 April
5 - 6 pm Amsterdam time
Free – Registration required
Join us for Mirielle Rohr's Open Studio, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub. Mirielle Rohr will present her project “manosphere” as part of the FUTURES Residency.
Mirielle Rohr is a visual artist and photographer based between Paris and Berlin. Through analogue photography, ceramics, sculpture, and AI-generated imagery, she examines the aesthetics and emotional economies of digital culture, how bodies, desire, and identity are mediated, performed, and consumed. Mirielle Rohr is a Carte Blanche Étudiante laureate and she presented her work at Paris Photo Fair in 2025.
"Building on my practice exploring internet culture, representation, and the aesthetics of digital media, I intend to create a new work that visually interprets the world of toxic masculinities. Using AI image generation, I will construct a surreal visual language that reflects the fantasies, contradictions, and violent undertones circulating in these online communities." - Mirielle Rohr
Event details
1 April 2026 | 17:00 – 20:00
FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
• Workshop on AI image-making | 17:00 – 18:00
Join us for an introduction to AI image-making as a creative tool for developing new visual worlds. Participants will begin by gathering a dataset based on a specific theme, subject, or aesthetic they are interested in recreating, and will then use Replicate to generate images from this material. Setting up Replicate requires creating an account, which redirects through GitHub, before returning to the platform. A limited number of image generations are available at first, though a payment method must be entered during sign-up. We may also use Runway to experiment with transforming still images into short videos.
Participants should bring their own laptop for the session.
• Artist Talk & Open Discussion | 18:00
Mirielle will share insights into her research and production process, followed by an open discussion exploring how technological environments shape human relationships and psychological landscapes.
• Open Studio and pizza party | until 20:00
Drop in to meet Mirielle, see the outcomes of the residency and stick around to share a slice of pizza together.
Please RSVP by 31 March 2026 to confirm your attendance.
This Open Studio is Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).
FUTURES is supporting partner of Paris Photo and the Carte Blanche Students program.
Image © Mirielle Rohr
Join us for Ignacio Navas’ Open Studio, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub. Ignacio Navas will present his project “ORACLE” as part of the FUTURES Residency.
Ignacio works at the intersection of photography, data, and emerging technologies. His practice transforms everyday images into computational, generative, and interactive systems that reveal how political, economic, and social forces shape the world around us.
"ORACLE is a computational photographic project that reimagines Luigi Ghirri’s Atlante within the financial landscape. Where Ghirri used macro views of an atlas to read the world—describing mountains, cities, oceans, and deserts as a system of signs—ORACLE recontextualises this logic by shifting its focus to bank notes, turning emblems, portraits, seals, numerals, and national symbols into omens of market tensions, corporate expectations, and speculative finance." - Ignacio Navas -
Event details
4 February 2026 | 17:00 – 20:00
FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
Processing Workshop | 17:00 to 18:30
An introductory session led by Ignacio covering the basics of Processing and its creative use in photography and art. We will explore key libraries, simple workflows and the vibe coding approach, then unpack the making of ORACLE.
No experience required.
Open Studio | 18:30 to 20:00
Drop in to meet Ignacio, see the outcomes of the residency and join a short conversation about the project.
Please RSVP by 3 February 2026 to confirm your attendance.
This Open Studio is Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).
Need feedback on a photo project?
Intersecciones × Wanderstories will host a peer-to-peer feedback session at the FUTURES Hub for the first time.
The session is open to visual storytellers, artists, and students at any stage of their project, from early ideas to finished work.
Bring your project, small prints or a laptop, and share it in a supportive, collaborative setting.
EVENT DETAILS
2 February 2026 | 18:30–21:00
FUTURES Photography Hub
Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
We look forward to seeing you there!
About Wanderstories
Wanderstories is a peer-to-peer feedback community for photographers and visual storytellers, hosted in partnership with Fotodok Utrecht. They meet regularly to share works in progress, exchange constructive feedback, and encourage dialogue through photobooks, films, and conversations around creative practice. Wanderstories provides a supportive space to gain new perspectives and grow as a visual artist.
About Intersecciones
Intersecciones is a peer-to-peer project-sharing format initiated by Ignacio Navas, FUTURES artist in residence, together with other photographers. It operates through El Local, an independent photography space in Madrid, where Intersecciones takes place weekly as an open forum for sharing and discussing ongoing projects.
Please join us for the first FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight of 2026 with Marcus Gustafsson.
Marcus Gustafsson will present his first photo-book, Filling the Gaps, published by Kultbooks.
In his debut book Gustafsson explores a deeply personal and complex narrative about his father’s alcoholism and its impact on himself and his family. The project reconciles fragmented memories to better understand the circumstances that have shaped his life and relationships, while also serving as an effort toward healing and reconnecting with his fractured family.
It confronts the duality of growing up with an alcoholic parent—the struggle to break free while remaining bound by a shared history—and the void left behind when the family’s unifying figure is gone. The work examines how addiction alters family dynamics, leaves lasting marks, and challenges the possibility of moving forward.
In Filling in the Gaps, Marcus combines his own images with archival family photographs. His visual language is raw yet stylized, documenting his father’s daily life and surroundings while also turning the camera toward himself, reflecting the tension between reality and memory. Altered family photos—taped or drawn over—become acts of reclamation, as he infuses inherited memories with his own voice. Filling in the Gaps is an emotional exploration of trauma, showing how revisiting painful memories can open paths toward reconciliation and peace with the past.
About FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight:
Five times a year, Magnum Learn invites a FUTURES photographer to take the spotlight in an online conversation about their artistic journey. The series connects audiences worldwide with the artist’s practice, inspirations, and the ideas behind their work.
We also hope to inspire the next generation of photographers, providing them with the opportunity to connect with fellow artists.
Free – Registration required
“In the Alzou Valley once flowed a unique queer community devoted to the river deity. They were fluid beings; the valley and the river breathed with them - a world where queerness, nature, and faith intertwined. But the harmony broke, the waters darkened, and the people of Alzou drifted into exile, leaving only whispers in the river’s song.”
Join us for Ugo Woatzi’s Open Studio, our newest residents at the FUTURES Hub, and celebrate the end of the year together!
Ugo Woatzi will present their project l’eau brille aussi la nuit as part of the FUTURES & MPB Residency.
Ugo Woatzi’s practice emerges as an intimate and poetic gesture, weaving the political with the imaginary. Moving through constellations of mediums, speculative fragments, queer theories, collective and personal memories, their work imagines new possibilities for belonging and transformation—both for our bodies and for the worlds we inhabit.
For the artist talk, Ugo Woarzi will be in conversation with Samira Damato, filmmaker, curator and artistic director for the Pride Photo Award.
Event Details:
- 16:00-17:30 – Portfolio sessions
- 17:30 - Open studio starts
- 18:30 – Q&A with Samira Damato
- Studio Open Until: 20:00
- Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
👉 Please RSVP by 9 December 2025 to confirm your attendance.
About the portfolio sessions
As part of the Open Studio, Ugo Woatzi, guest teacher at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, will organize four sessions of portfolio discussion, where the participants will have the opportunity to discuss a variety of topics, such as the development of their practice, what it means to take part in a residency program, how to structure a portfolio. Each session is an open conversation on the different aspects of the creative process, without being focused exclusively on the review of the portfolio.
The sessions will take place between 16:00 and 17:30 at the FUTURES Hub and it will be possible to sign up through the form below. There are four spots available, assigned on a first-come, first-served signup basis.
⚡️ Sign up here for the Portfolio Sessions
About Ugo Woatzi
Ugo Woatzi’s practice emerges as an intimate and poetic gesture, weaving the political with the imaginary. Moving through constellations of mediums, speculative fragments, queer theories, collective and personal memories, their work imagines new possibilities for belonging and transformation—both for our bodies and for the worlds we inhabit.
In 2024, Woatzi was a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, followed by a residency at WIELS, Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels, in 2025. Woatzi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and completed studies at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg, as well as an MA in Visual Arts at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels. Since 2023, they have also been a guest teacher at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video gear.
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).
Photo Credits: Johan Poezevara
FUTURES & Magnum Photos invite you to join us for our next online Artist Spotlight with Vika Eksta.
Eksta’s practice is rooted in the exploration of self-portraits as a method of researching specific themes and creating works that resonate with a wider community.
In this presentation, she will focus on her recent project The Encounter, an attempt to reconstruct the physical and emotional experience of childbirth through photographic self-portraits and video materials captured during the process. She will also address the challenges of exhibiting such intimate work and the ways it has been received by the public.
To provide context for this approach, Eksta will start her talk by reflecting on her earlier self-portrait projects, particularly Dievs Daba Darbs (God Nature Toil). The project examines rural depopulation, using an abandoned house and what it contains as props to tell the wider story. This project was published as a photobook in 2018.
About Vika Eksta:
Vika Eksta (1987) is an artist and educator based in Riga, Latvia.Her work primarily focuses on autobiographical narrative and existential subjects, as well as research of Eastern European life and reflections of historical trauma. Vika works with photography, analogue photo printing, video, performance for the camera and archival research.Her approach embodies the desire of 19th-century Romantic painters to capture what they observe by constructing an entirely new reality - one saturated with emotion, association, and imagery.Since 2014, she has participated in exhibitions in Latvia and abroad, including at the Latvian National Museum of Art, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Tallin Art Hall, Vilnius National gallery, ALMA gallery, ISSP Gallery, Kaunas Photography Gallery etc. Her work is held in the collections of Latvian National Museum of Art, Latvian Museum of photography, SEB bank, VV foundation and private collections. Vika is the winner of the ADC Young Guns, FK Portfolio and Riga Photography Biennial awards for young Baltic photographers and is part of Futures photography network since 2022. Vika is represented by ALMA gallery.
About FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight:
Every other month, we invite a photographer from the FUTURES platform to join us for an engaging online conversation about their artistic journey. Thanks to the online format, these talks are accessible to audiences around the world, offering a rare opportunity to hear directly from emerging artists about their work, motivations, and creative processes.
This series also aims to inspire the next generation of photographers by connecting them with practitioners who are still in the early stages of their careers—offering valuable insights and inspiration for others navigating similar paths.
Free – Registration required by following this link
© Vika Eksta
FUTURES Foundation is excited to announce a new partnership with Paris Photo and Carte Blanche. As supporting partner, FUTURES will collaborate with the Carte Blanche program to provide the students finalists and the laureates with a curated educational program. The partnership will also include the possibility for one of the Carte Blanche laureates to participate in the FUTURES Residency Program in Amsterdam.
FUTURES will be present during Paris Photo 2025 on Friday November 14 at 5 PM at the Carte Blanche booth at the Grand Palais, where we will have the opportunity to meet the finalists and laureates of the Carte Blanche Students program. We are enthusiastic to work together with Paris Photo and welcome the students from the Carte Blanche Program in the FUTURES community.