I Am is a project of Ilse Frech about young women who have grown up within the Muslim culture in the outer suburbs of Paris. Frech's photographs are intimate portraits of young women seeking their identity, as they find themselves often in between two cultures.

Deep Light emphasizes Goossens' photography of the last decade. The selection for the book has been made in close collaboration with the artist. The arrangement of the photos encourages readers to explore the relationships between the different genres represented and the different images themselves.

Passers-by become ecstatic outsiders. A celebration does not drive people apart, but fuses them and forges them into a close community.

The Rotterdam artist Olaf Mooij produces work that focuses on changing existing objects into new dimensions. He achieves particular fame with his car sculptures.

Currency, an edgy yearly hard-cover magazine. It's a mash-up of traditional magazine forms in a new style.

BAGHDAD CALLING is an exceptional photography book. Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren shows how Iraqi refugees are living in Jordan, Syria and Turkey.

What is the educational value of craft? What do we learn through the act of making? Is 'craft' still relevant in today’s design world?

How do you present the work of artists who not only paint paintings but are also the makers of films, installations and performances? Artists, moreover, who come from Romania and here, in the West, confront us with the charged nature of the history of the former Eastern bloc, Communism, uprisings and revolutions.

The Kaddu Wasswa Archive by photographer Andrea Stultiens is the visual biography of Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa, born in 1933, who played a an important role in his community as a teacher and social worker.

philippen and son love their camera. The father may have a preference for landscapes and architecture, the son be fascinated with feminine beauty, but conceptual their work is not. Both are delightedly devoted to the framing eye of the camera. Their works keep each other in balance. They are different but also related in their dislike of great narratives, of critical stances, of drama, of emphatic rhetoric.

(D/ Engl./ Frz./ Dutch)

Most Ugandans are unable to take a holiday.
But it is possible for them to have photos taken with a better world in the background once a year.

From a refugee camp to a working-class neighbourhood in small town Kollum, The Netherlands. Hamida from Somalia exchanged her mud hut for a three storey row house and can now send her children to school and learn how to read and write herself for the first time. But she has also been subject to racism and incomprehension.

Shishmaref is disappearing. The village on an island off the coast of Alaska is slowly but surely being swallowed up by the sea. Global warming is causing the island's protective permafrost layer to melt.

Tacit Urbanism complements the documentary 'Kolkata Monodosis; Interventions in Temporary Public Spaces' in which Dell, also an accomplished jazz and contemporary music exponent, performs live at ten different locations around Kolkata.

Ein Buch über Nike's urbane Marketingstrategien und wie sie die Stadt verändern.

Polder Cup is a sports and arts event organized by Maider Lopez, the Spanish artist who has established an international reputation with her unusual projects.

In parallel to BAK's acclaimed series of Critical Readers in Contemporary Art, the series Critical Readers in Artists' Practice examines the practice and body of work of artists who we believe manage to shift the understanding and the potential of art in the changing world of today, and of tomorrow.

The current urban landscape in the Netherlands is more and more derived from neo-traditional architecture: complete suburbs are built in this style. The houses appear old but gleam with newness. Project developers do not sell individual houses but 'images' that look familiar and safe. Colourful artist's impressions on billboards with appealing slogans win still hesitant buyers over. Many picturesque examples from the history of Dutch architecture are nonchalantly copied and some locations could be mistaken for Disneyland. Examples from other countries are also popular; colonial houses from the southern United States and the 'Medieval' Tuscany village are most in demand.

In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism.

Lingezegen is a large park between Nijmegen and Arnhem with several functions: housing, agriculture and recreation. In Summer School Lingezegen students from different disciplines addressed the identity of the park in construction, their assignment was to stretch its social and natural boundaries.

Artist-in-residence programmes are well-known means for artists and curators to refresh, reset or deepen artistic ideas. Residential art institutes can enrich their international collaboration, partly because residents often return to participate in an exhibition. Over the last two decades, the programmes consequently have grown enormously in popularity. Cultural networks as Trans Artists and Res Artis list some 1,500 international exchange opportunities on their websites.

The indirect eloquence of the images in Shelter is the connective factor that helps make the receptive viewer feel involved and offers a meaningful alternative to the platitude of photography

concept
Ben Laloua, Frank Bruggeman and Ernst van der Hoeven
graphic design
Ben Laloua / Didier Pascal

Club Donny # 5 has been made possible with support of Nederlands Fotomuseum en CBK Rotterdam.

Club Donny is a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment, published bi-annually as a tiny-scale English language magazine.

In 1991 the city of Zoetermeer built a tubular bridge across highway A12 in the city colours yellow and blue to connect the centre with new housing estates at the edge of the city. Hundreds of times Jan Dirk van der Burg crossed the bridge, after all it was the shortest way to the only coffeeshop in town. He even developed a knack for taking his bike up the escalator as you had to in order to access the bridge.

The wife of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi wants to divorce her husband. According to the Italian press, Veronica Lario is furious with Berlusconi because he attended the birthday party of 18-year old blonde model Noemi, while he fails to be present at his own children's birthdays.

Retracing is a research project about perception, memory, photography and the possibility of imagelessness.

Dutch photographer Peter Martens (1937-1992) was a versatile street photographer. His way of working was inspired by the long American tradition of engaged and personal documentary photography, but he went one step further and developed into a radical photographer who took a stand for the disadvantaged and outcast.

The paintings of Micha Patiniott depict a world that often reflects everyday reality, portrayed -however- with a twist. Rooted in personal experience and imagination, objects, body parts, people, and animals are made to act in ways that do not occur in reality.

Few subjects evoke as much controversy nowadays as the subject of food. The world's population continues to grow, and with the rise in prosperity comes an ever greater need for food that can be trusted. Inevitably, it seems, this means both an increase in scale and unceasing technological innovation, with unpredictable results at times.

He is the traveller who sends us on our way: Andrei Roiter, born in Moscow in 1960 and oscillating between Amsterdam and New York since 1990, often with detours via Russia to visit family. Bon Voyage is a slogan referring to the work, but at the same time it is an encouragement and greeting to the visitor who comes to that work from the opposite direction.

Ram Katzir (1969, Tel Aviv), currently living and working in Amsterdam, studied at the Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam and The Cooper Union, New York. In 1995 he published 'A Book Called Six', winner of the Sandberg Institute Prize 1995, and in 1998 'Your Coloring Book - a Wandering Installation'.

In Pages 7 In Translation the editors look at translation as an instance of cultural practice and of political agency. This space is not only found between languages or among cultures, but may be sought, for example, in the spatial and political arrangements of public and private spaces of cities, as communal or individual identities, in representations of state media, and in artistic practice itself.

Hidden Curriculum is a project by artist Annette Krauss and commissioned by Casco. It looks at the unintended and unrecognized forms of knowledge, values and beliefs that are part of the learning processes and daily life within high schools.

Pages 6 Eventual Spaces includes re-prints of magazine and newspaper clippings that reflect conflicts of architecture, design, predicaments of the social engagement of art, ideological convictions and displacements in art, and the discontinuities in modernist paradigms and their practices.

What determines our place in history? If it is the past, there we also find the material support with which we reconstitute our historical place. Our relation to history remains retrospective, but also anticipatory.
Events begin with a break from history. But they soon are recaptured by it and fetishized as historical triumphs or failures. Still something remains of past events that, although conditioned by history, is irreducible to it: a surplus that finds way to our time, something out of time that forces us to actively anticipate a renewing in past events.

All that is solid melts into air. Notes on Tourism is a reflection on the work of artist and writer Delphine Bedel. From amusement parks and monuments, to camping and beach resorts, her photographs and writings document sites of tourism in diverse contexts. She brings into question the visual representation of leisure, architecture, and cultural artefacts.

Een abrikoos in de achtertuin by photographer Bernice Siewe shows stories and images of the first Moroccan emigrants in the Netherlands.

On three occasions, between the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009, Witte de With, center for contemporary art, organized three symposia under the title 'Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists'. Each three-day event focused on one agent in the art world, looking at their expectations, positions and the contexts in which they operate.

The Making of PAPA is a photo book. It contains 250 photographs taken by 35 photographers from 6 countries.

The photographs in Toppled show an array of attitudes towards the sculptures that expose differences between the cultures but also universally valid aspects of human relationships with carved representations. It becomes apparent, that even in our modern image culture, the ancient magical link between the person (Saddam) and his representation (statue) is still alive in the human psyche.

In the late eighties, Dutch artist Hans Citroen meets Barbara Starzyńska, a Polish architect, and ends up visiting relatives in Oświęcim, the city where his grandfather survived KZ Auschwitz.

Cascoland is a multidisciplinary public art project, with the aim to explore a series of interventions in public space to create awareness of urban issues, mobility and the use of public space in a positive and creative framework.

In this work, Willem Popelier investigates mankind's image of himself, the question of what makes someone unique, how we see ourselves and how we want to be seen by others. He researches identity and how we perceive that identity, making use of photography in order to record the facts. By way of neutral portraits, he undertakes an attempt to focus attention on the individual.

The BosBus, an ordinary city bus with a growing forest inside, was a way of probing this cultural interpretation of nature.

WATW looks at various aspects of our, consumption driven world. It combines the works of Chinese and Dutch photographers and artists in a travelling exhibition and website watw.nu that can be defined as montages of artistic, journalistic, and scientific observations and aims to draw attention to our mutual responsibility for the globalising world we are living in.

Shooting Time is a collection of conversations with directors of photography (DP) from all over the world, who talk about their profession in the era of transition from analog to digital cinema. The conversations center around two main areas: film language and digital revolution.

The playful principles of the competition are supported by a text by Ian Borden (architectural historian) about how skateboarders adopt urban environments as concrete playground, and a chapter from Jocko Weylands The Answer is Never on the rise of skateboard culture in the eighties.

The Camouflage Museum (short TCM) discusses a situation between the virtual and the existing. It holds neither a permanent location for its displays nor is it fixed to a certain field of subjects. Its architectural structure consists of spaces which have hosted, host and will host The Camouflage Museum for a period of time. The outlines of those spaces will be later used to construct TCM's architectural structure.