FOTODOK

Name: FOTODOK
Address: Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht, 3512PA, NL
Telephone: 0651231951
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FOTODOK | Space to see, think and learn Organisation
FOTODOK was founded in 2008 by Femke Lutgerink and Rob Hornstra. Public Programme of lectures and events.

It began as a nomadic organisation, initiating events and exhibitions in collaboration with various partners such as: The Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht; Het Utrechts Archief; and at various other public locations. In 2014, FOTODOK settled its office and exhibition space at Lange Nieuwstraat 7, opening for six months a year. Direction of work
FOTODOK’s programme is based upon four pillars. Exhibitions address socially relevant matters. Every year we put together at least two self-initiated exhibitions, both indoors and outdoors. It contains projects such as: FOTODOK Book Club, Taferelen, Female Perspective symposium, exhibition tours, and a 360 degree tour Virtual Presence. FOTODOK has three Talent Development programmes with local, national and international reaches, for artists in their first years of practice after graduation: Lighthouse, mentoring about 10 artists after their graduation from Dutch academies; Blurring the Lines, supporting over thirty international graduates; and Take Off, a digital meet-up for graduates across Dutch academies. Through our Education initiatives we encourage children and teenagers from the province of Utrecht to experience photography. We produce educational projects that range from long-term collaborations with schools in the province to workshops at our own location.

26/10/2026

Mark Rammers (Mark Rammers) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

After years of feeling isolated, Rammers found a sense of home in Wijk aan Zee, a coastal town beside the Tata Steel plant. “Wijk” explores what it means to belong to a place where everyday life is bound to an industry that also threatens people’s health and environment.

For generations, steelmaking has shaped the region’s culture, social structures, and economic security. Through a photographic installation, Rammers considers these deep connections alongside the costs of pollution, tracing the tensions between belonging, livelihoods, and the conditions in which people live.

Opening: Friday 6 November, 16:30 at Atelier Néerlandais

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris 6–15 November 2026 Daily, 11:00–18:00

23/10/2026

Pablo Lerma (Pablo Lerma) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

“Tabula Rasa” draws on archival materials to explore LGBTQIA+ identities across different European territories. Taking the idea of a blank slate as its starting point, the project considers how knowledge and definitions are shaped by experience, perception, and influence.

Presented as an installation of text, sound, language, and images, the work invites visitors to interact with its materials and consider how understandings of Europe and q***r identity take shape.

Pablo Lerma is a Hispanic q***r artist, educator and publisher based in Amsterdam, whose research-based practice brings together image, text and archives to explore collective memory, kinship, representation and q***rness. Working across installations, publications and writing, he also runs Meteoro Editions, a publishing platform dedicated to archival practices and vernacular materials.

Opening: Friday 6 November, 16:30 at Atelier Néerlandais

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris�6–15 November 2026�Daily, 11:00–18:00

22/10/2026

Giya Makondo-Wills (Giya Makondo-Wills) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

Set in Utrecht’s Kanaleneiland, “A Neighbourhood” examines ideas of the “good immigrant” and the persistence of racial and socioeconomic segregation.

Over four years, Makondo-Wills collected texts and images from a neighbourhood WhatsApp group. These everyday exchanges appear alongside the artist’s photographs and collages drawn from “Welcome to the Netherlands” integration books, bringing different perspectives on belonging into conversation.

The work also includes “An Interrogation of a Marriage”, an audio piece built around 100 questions, 50 of which come from the Dutch integration exam.

Opening: Friday 6 November, 16:30 at Atelier Néerlandais

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris 6–15 November 2026 Daily, 11:00–18:00

21/10/2026

Sheng-Wen Lo (Sheng-Wen Lo) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

“Down” (2017–2018) began with a question about the origins of the feathers inside winter jackets. Unable to trace their source while shopping, Lo decided to make a jacket using goose feathers collected from the ground in parks, along riverbanks, and in forests near home in Breda.

After two months of collecting, filling, and sewing, the finished jacket was tested during a three-week Arctic Circle Residency expedition in Svalbard. Lo wore it on 21 landings and glacier hikes, with minimal base layers.
The handmade jacket is presented alongside photographs, videos, and booklets documenting the process, from gathering feathers to testing the garment in the High Arctic.

Opening: Friday 6 November, 16:30 at Atelier Néerlandais

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris 6–15 November 2026 Daily, 11:00–18:00

20/10/2026

Rafael Roncato (Rafael Roncato) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

“A Knife All Blade” investigates the colonial legacy of Dutch Brazil, a Dutch colony in northeastern Brazil between 1630 and 1654. The project examines how an enterprise built on the exploitation of land, labour, and enslaved people became associated with Dutch wealth, knowledge, and cultural prestige.

Through archival images, documents, and contemporary photographs, Roncato traces how colonial narratives continue to shape urban space, memory, and representation.

Presented as a cabinet of curiosities, the installation brings together photographs, objects, and collages alongside “The Façade” (2025), a book exploring the enduring presence of colonial imagery in the Netherlands and Brazil.

Opening: Friday 6 November, 16:30 at Atelier Néerlandais

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris 6–15 November 2026 Daily, 11:00–18:00

15/10/2026

Maite Vanhellemont (Maite Vanhellemont) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

In “A Little Memory of The Beginning”, Vanhellemont reflects on Dutch-Indonesian heritage and fragmented family histories shaped by the postcolonial events of the twentieth century.

Beginning in the family garden on Sulawesi, the project brings together archival material, photography, video, drawing, and text. Photographing a father, folding a paper boat, and planting a tree become gestures through which to approach inherited memory.

Drawing on embodied practices from haptotherapy and family constellations, Vanhellemont develops new rituals to engage with family histories and the stories that remain unspoken.

Opening: Friday 6 November, 16:30 at Atelier Néerlandais

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris 6–15 November 2026 Daily, 11:00–18:00

08/10/2026

Emilia Martin (𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕟) is part of “A Wider Gaze”, presented by FOTODOK at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais) in Paris, in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

“The Serpent’s Thread” weaves together the story of Martin’s grandmother, a textile worker in rural Poland, with fragmented histories of the Andersson sisters in Sweden. The work explores women’s textile labour as a language, a form of intergenerational knowledge, and a tool of liberation.

The loss of her grandmother’s textiles after her death connects to a wider absence of women’s knowledge and practices from the archive. Drawing on Saidiya Hartman’s concept of critical fabulation, Martin uses speculation to carry these stories forward.
Photographs, collages, archival material, and large textile prints come together in an installation that moves between image, material, and storytelling.

Emilia Martin is a Polish artist and photographer based in The Hague. Working across photography, writing, sound and sculpture, she draws on ancestral storytelling, myths and rituals to challenge the boundaries between truth and fiction and explore our relationships with one another and the more-than-human world.

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris 6–15 November 2026 Daily, 10:00–18:00

07/10/2026

Join us at FOTODOK this October for artist talks, a reading, and a performance and workshop.

Artist Talk with Tim Ross (tim ross)

* Date: Sunday 11 October
* Time: 12:30–13:30
* Location: FOTODOK

In conversation with curator and moderator Yusser al Obaidi (Yusser al Obaidi), Tim Ross shares the process behind his latest work, exploring the family history, ideas and archival material that shape his practice.

Reading with Sarah-Rose Antoun ()

* Date: Sunday 11 October
* Time: 14:00–15:00
* Location: FOTODOK

Sarah-Rose Antoun reads from a publication in progress, diary entries and an essay on image circulation during the war in Lebanon. Followed by a Q&A.

Performance & Workshop with Wang Xue Sophia (Wang Xue Sophia)

* Date: Sunday 25 October
* Time: 16:00–17:30
* Location: FOTODOK garden

In The Lilac and the Cypress, Wang Xue Sophia imagines a family graveyard that women are not allowed to enter through making a cyanotype with her mother. The work explores how three generations of women approach death.

Join the artist to complete a cyanotype artwork and reflect on the question: “What kind of plant, or seed, might you become?”

06/10/2026

One month to go until “A Wider Gaze” opens in Paris.

From 6–15 November 2026, FOTODOK presents “A Wider Gaze” at Atelier Néerlandais (Atelier Néerlandais), in the lead-up to Paris Photo (Paris Photo).

What does it mean to be European today?

Bringing together ten artists and photographers working across photography, video, installation, textiles, and archival materials, the exhibition explores belonging, identity, labour, migration, memory, and colonial legacies. Rather than offering a single narrative of Europe, “A Wider Gaze” brings together multiple perspectives, histories, and lived experiences.

The title draws on the Ancient Greek roots of the word Europe — eurys-ops, meaning “wide gaze.” At a time marked by division and uncertainty, the exhibition asks: can we still see beyond borders and differences to recognise what connects us?

Atelier Néerlandais, Paris
6–15 November 2026
Daily, 10:00–18:00

Artists: Emilia Martin (𝕖𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕟), Giya Makondo-Wills (Giya Makondo-Wills), Julia G*t (Julia G*t — Photographer), Maite Vanhellemont (Maite Vanhellemont), Mark Rammers (Mark Rammers), Pablo Lerma (), Rafael Roncato (Rafael Roncato), Sanne van den Elzen (Sanne van den Elzen), Sheng-Wen Lo (Sheng-Wen Lo) and Thana Faroq (Thana Faroq| ثناء فاروق).

One month from today, we open the doors. We hope to see you in Paris!

Design by Sean Charlton White (Sean Charlton White)

Learn more through the link in bio.

01/10/2026

Join us at FOTODOK on Friday, 9 October, from 17:30 for the launch of “The Shape of Our Eyes, Other Things I Wouldn’t Know” by Davide Sartori (Davide Sartori).

The book explores the relationship between Sartori and his father. Moving between their respective workplaces, the photography studio and the airport, the project unfolds through a series of collaborative attempts to build a connection.

The launch will be followed by a conversation between Davide and Guinevere Ras (Guinevere Ras), curator at the Nederlands Fotomuseum.

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Lange Nieuwstraat 7
Utrecht
3512PA

Telefoon

0651231951

Website

http://www.fotodok.org/

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