“I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter,” says Todd Hido (1968, USA), renowned for his night pictures of suburban houses and his poetic, luminous landscapes. He recently was in Amsterdam to give a workshop and GUP took the opportunity to ask him some questions.
Eric Kala catches the soul of buildings. The 44 year old photographer, son of a geometrist, roams his region of South-Eastern France looking for lines, shapes and colours (and, according to him, listening to them too.) He talks to us a month before his new exhibit “Kromatic Cité”, sponsored by Nikon, opens in Paris.
How do you get the residents of a multicultural and underprivileged neighbourhood interested in photography? That was the main hurdle facing project coordinator Lisa Kleeven when she opened West Side Stories on Amsterdam’s Confuciusplein in May 2010. Helmed by FOAM’s education department, the project to create a neighbourhood structure offering free photography classes and workshops to area residents has become a huge success.