Tudor Rhys Etchells is a visual artist who uses the photograph to challenge fictions created by legal systems. Working within such a bureaucracy in his previous role as a human rights lawyer inspires his closeness to the document and brutally mundane. Documentary photography is a medium that often fails, so parodying it as a system of constructing truth, he questions the norm of the imagined nation state.
If you’re in Riga, don’t miss the Open Studio with Tudor on 27 May in Riga.
Join us for Michaela Nagyidaiová's Open Studio, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub. Michaela Nagyidaiová will present her project “Red Hills” as part of the FUTURES Residency.
Michaela Nagyidaiová is a Slovak visual artist based in Vienna. Her work explores the connection between landscape and memory, the transformation of Central and Eastern European environments, migration, and questions of roots.
"The forest continues to be claimed, mapped, and transformed. For centuries, woodlands in Slovakia have been shaped by the rhythms of the natural world, by the traditions and rituals of people who lived among them, and by the weight of shifting empires, wars, and political systems. With forty-one percent of the land covered in trees, the forest is more than a landscape - it's a memory, a site of ancestral practices and livelihoods." - Michaela Nagyidaiová
Event details
6 May 2026 | 17:00 – 20:00
FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 CA Amsterdam
During the Open Studio, visitors will be able to explore the project on display and listen to a new soundpiece made in collaboration with a sound designer from recordings collected in the forests while making the project. The artist will also be experimenting with scents in the space, inviting visitors to explore them firsthand and note which emotions or memories each smell evokes. A talk will explore the project’s process and the research that informs it, offering insight into how the work was developed and the ideas behind it.
RSVP HERE
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 a FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight 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
“Metamorphosis” arrives in Turin at EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival after traveling to Prague and Rouen.
Exploring metamorphosis as a personal, social, and environmental process, the group exhibition brings together diverse visual languages that reflect the tensions shaping our time.
From 9 April to 2 June, the exhibition will be presented across six independent spaces in Turin (Italy), fostering connections between the city’s cultural venues and emerging visual artists.
The works of Claudia Amatruda (Foggia, 1995), Máté Bartha (Budapest, 1987), Benedetta Casagrande (Milan, 1993), Anna Orlowska (Opole, 1986), Ada Zielinska (Warsaw, 1989), and Yana Wernicke (Berlin, 1990) will be exhibited in the non-profit spaces Mucho Mas!, Witty Books, Almanac, Quartz Studio, Cripta747, and Jest, strengthening a network of collaboration between independent initiatives and new generations of artists in contemporary photography.
More info here
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 a FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight 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