• Xiaoxiao Xu (CN/NL)

Following those who prepare for and attend European cosplay conventions, a subculture with Asian roots full of community spirit and insecurities.

• Stéphanie Roland (BE)

An artist’s book that combines the narratives of seven phantom islands in a non-linear, fragmented logic, from which a meta-island emerges.

• Benedetta Ristori (IT)

Expatriate women finding a sense of belonging in Berlin, a city characterised by its international population and gentrification.

• Kevin Cooley (US)

An ode to pyrotechnicst Ken Miller, focusing on his life’s work that has been marked by both brilliance and misfortune.

• Ringel Goslinga (NL)

A kaleidoscopic view of the colonial history of the Toraja people on Sulawesi, and a study of animistic patterns and traditional weaving forms

• Máté Bartha (HU)

An obscure encyclopedia in which an archetypal metropolis that has evolved into an autonomous organism mirrors the entirety of creation.

• Adam Thorman (US)

A series of ‘creatures’ seen by finding the animate in the inanimate, viewing the world through the lens of pareidolia.

• Erik Lieber (NL)

A large collection of anonymous snapshots spanning decades, defined by the repetitive manner in which a Japanese ‘Mom’ and ‘Girl’ are photographed.

• Daniel Chatard (DE)

An investigation of the impact of brown coal extraction in Germany’s Rhineland, showing the emotional and physical toll of the mining operations.

• Elias Holzknecht (AT)

A non-linear narrative highlighting the complexity of representing a social space, focusing on four eponymous Austrian localities.

• Toma Gerzha (RU/NL)

Documenting the lives of young people in Russia, strongly influenced by tradition, social media, and politics.

• Rogier Maaskant (NL)

Enchanting images unveil a diverse array of insects in flight during twilight and nighttime, putting their importance and beauty in the limelight.

• Nora Bibel (DE)

An investigation into the repercussions of climate change around the world, with water, in abundance or in scarcity, as the central theme.

• Mafalda Rakoš (AT)

Questioning the impossibility of captivating someone else’s inner world through photography through portraits and conversations with four protagonists.

• Thomas Locke Hobbs (US)

An appreciation of the sculptural and expressive quality of the small ramps used to wheel bikes inside at night in Medellín, Colombia.

• Martin Tscholl (DE)

Meadows, forests, and mountains in a web of interconnections extending beyond the realm of humans, but originating from the same ontological ground.

• Angeniet Berkers (NL)

The compelling history of the programme to provide the Third Reich with a new generation of leaders, focusing on the personal consequences for those involved.

• Barbara Debeuckelaere (BE)

A collaborative photography project with Palestinian women in Hebron, showing the world their perseverance under occupation, as the ultimate act of resistance.

• Barbara Debeuckelaere (BE)

A collaborative photography project with Palestinian women in Hebron, showing the world their perseverance under occupation, as the ultimate act of resistance.

• Anna Püschel (DE/FR)

A collection of definitions of words related to knowledge from a broad range of sources, showing that we have always yearned for the truth.

• Lana Mesić (NL)

An examination of the role and meaning of the enemy image in the complex history and contested borders that shaped the countries of former Yugoslavia.

• Lynn Alleva Lilley (US)

A silent observation of the vegetation and animals in the woods around Sligo Creek, arousing what is not directly perceptible to the senses.

• Pablo Cabado (AR)

A slow exploration of a deserted island in Patagonia, home to the ruins of an experimental fusion reactor built by German scientist Ronald Richter.

• Cécile Hupin (BE)
• Katherine Longly (BE)

Comparing dream to reality by giving a voice to those who won or came close to winning a jackpot, for better or for worse.

• Seppe Vancraywinkel (BE)

An ode to a friendship in which notions of time, space, adulthood, masculinity, and intimacy are spontaneously reconfigured in a playful manner.

• Hiske Altena (NL)

A visual exploration of the ‘clay hypothesis’, the theory according to which clay helped the evolution of early life forms.

• Stephen Cornford (GB)

A colourful speculation on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record.

• Tanja Engelberts (NL)

A photographic exploration of the offshore oil and gas industry, highlighting the raw structures on the sea while evoking a sense of awe and guilt.

• Peter Pflügler (AT)

An intimate journey through the labyrinth of a family secret, focusing on the impossibility of secrets and intergenerational trauma.

• Kristof Titeca (BE)

A collage of decorative and political works from Nasser Road, Kampala, a mythical place known for its printing trade and as a centre of fraud.

• Sheung Yiu (HK/FI)

The transformation of a physical desktop into a digital world by using projective texturing to create a dataset of 3D objects.

• Regine Petersen (DE)

An allegorical tale about the world’s most prominent Passion Play and its inherent antisemitism, and daily life in the village of Oberammergau.

• Karine Zenja Versluis (NL)

An exploration of a family history in the Donbas, Ukraine results in a puzzling search for a city that may never be found.

• Sari Soininen (FI)

The portrayal of a transcendental experience that explores encounters with alternative dimensions of reality and perceptions of otherworldly signs.

• Thomas Locke Hobbs (US)

A documentary study of domestic architecture in Los Angeles that exposes the veins of a city, in conflict and coexistence, with a poetic obliviousness.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

The exploration of new ways to represent the uncertainty of the era we currently live in by searching the limits of lens-based image making.

• Zindzi Zwietering (NL)

The prospect of Day Zero, the day that the city of Cape Town would run out of water, questions how urban citizens relate to a changing earth.

• Sem Langendijk (NL)

A documentary fiction about the environments of port cities, highlighting the transformation of disused docklands and its communities.

• Youqine Lefèvre (BE)

Intimate stories of Chinese girls living by the regulations of the one-child policy: separated from their families and registered for adoption.

• Oriane Thomasson (BE)

A mosaic of photographic work and archival materials assembled into a new narrative like a cabinet of curiosities.

• Xiaoxiao Xu (CN/NL)

A portrait of the mysterious and colourful world of Shèhuo, a Chinese festival for welcoming the warmth of spring and the joy of blossoming trees.

• Marjolein Blom (NL)

Mysteries from the everyday, interwoven with images from the NASA archive. A kaleidoscopic work of oddities, focusing on the notion of the attempt.

• Crystal Bennes (US)

Extensive research on the invention of modern computers, the history of nuclear weapons and, in particular, the narratives of the women involved.

• Michael Yuan (CA)

An intimate portrait of the Golden Gate Bridge, with all its characteristic faces that have never been presented before.

• Sibylle Eimermacher (DE)

A visual record of observations of glacial erratics in Dutch terrains and their Scandinavian bedrock.

• Marc Schroeder (LU)

A documentary research into the deportations of ethnic Germans from Romania to Soviet forced labour camps on Stalin’s order in 1944.

• Ton Grote (NL)

An ode to life, and an archaeological narrative of a recent history, containing an extensive photo archive of all objects from a parental home.

• Ton Grote (NL)

An ode to life, and an archaeological narrative of a recent history, containing an extensive photo archive of all objects from a parental home.

• Polymorf (NL)

A speculative future, investigating the effects of a symbiotic exchange of genetic and cultural traits.

• Sheung Yiu (HK/FI)

An observation of the quest to develop an improved interpretation model of satellite data for remote sensing research.

• Arturo Soto (MX)

A counter-narrative of the British city of Oxford that resists the visual imperatives of its ancient university.

• Thorsten Baensch (DE)
• Norbert Schöbel (DE)

A richly illustrated travelogue documenting the contemplative aspects of 12 years of hiking through Central Europe.

• Jana Hartmann (DE)

A photographic research on the scientific exploration and conquest of nature from the beginnings of alchemy until the present day.

• Dániel Szalai (HU)

A collection of portraits of the eponymous breed of chickens that was developed for using its eggs in the production of medicines and vaccines.

• Mathias de Lattre (FR)

A research project on psilocybin, mycology and medicine, stemming from the search for a therapy for the photographer’s bipolar mother.

• Sander van Wettum (NL)

An exploration into the off-season state of seaside resorts of the coastlines of Southern Europe, along surreal architecture, spaces and atmospheres.

• Vaste Programme (IT)

An alleged collection of photographs and notes on the surroundings of remote Siberian roads and towns.

• Bernadette Mergaerts (BE)

A portrait of the winter swimmers on the Greek island of Corfu, and their participation in the ritual celebrations of the winter months.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

A surprising and critical artistic view of the downsides of the digital platform economy.

• Danielle Lemaire (NL)

An artist book exploring the mythical cult around English singer-songwriter Nick Drake through archival research and melancholic drawings.

• Wiosna van Bon (NL)

Portraits of the families of detainees, who are suddenly confronted with ethical questions that put their relationships under great pressure.

• Claudia den Boer (NL)

Examining the experience of light, scale and spatiality through an eclectic variety of images of mountains, rocks and stones.

• Heleen Peeters (BE)

An exploration of the long shared history of the relationship between human and horse in different parts of the world.

• Ruben Lundgren (NL)
• Yining He (CN)

An exhibition catalogue showing a relevant selection of contemporary photographers who have been active in China over the past ten years.

• Katherine Longly (BE)

A story about stereotypes, aging, social mobility, but, above all, about love.

• Martin & Inge Riebeek (NL)

Over 225 video-portraits in which people from all over the world share their honest answers to the question: “what is the essence of your life?”

• Valeria Cherchi (IT)

A photo-text book that attempts to decode the complex kidnapping phenomenon on Sardinia between the 1960s and the 1990s.

• Oliver Leu (DE)

A reflection on both the visible representations of colonialism in present-day Belgium, and the hidden traces of its gruesome past.

• Xiaoxiao Xu (CN/NL)

A poetic road trip along the Great Wall of China, follwing the lives of the people, the decline of the wall and disappearing traditions.

• Stéphanie Roland (BE)

An experimental and fictional narrative that immerses the reader in a nocturnal and mysterious atmosphere of anticipation.

• Lucas Leffler (BE)

Over the course of 50 years, a former employee of a photographic factory secretly recovered tonnes of silver from a wastewater creek in Antwerp.

• Lynn Alleva Lilley (US)

About the wondrous life of the horseshoe crab, a ‘living fossil’, pondering our place in time, in evolution and in the whole of all life forms.

• Karianne Bueno (NL)

A portrait of Doug who has been living in the forests of Vancouver Island for 47 years, a labyrinth of stories and legends.

• Karianne Bueno (NL)

A portrait of Doug who has been living in the forests of Vancouver Island for 47 years, a labyrinth of stories and legends.

• Martino Marangoni (IT)

A selection of photographic work from a 60-year archive, documenting the changing city and street life in Lower Manhattan, New York.

• Natascha Libbert (NL)

About life in the technical zone around locks, ports and ships, following the renovation of the sea lock in IJmuiden, port access to Amsterdam.

• Peter Dekens (BE)

Exploring the remnants of destruction along the Ypres Salient in Belgium, 100 years after the end of the First World War.

• Robert Pufleb (DE)

Strange vessels of extraterrestial visitors, or an uncommon view of the common floodlight from an impossible perspective.

• BredaPhoto (NL)

The catalogue of the 8th edition of the festival, with a broad selection of photographic works and interviews with curators.

• Simon Brugner (AT)

A combination of a visual study and cultural-historical research findings on the ‘arsenic eaters’ from the pre-20th century rural population of the Alps.

• Simon Brugner (AT)

A combination of a visual study and cultural-historical research findings on the ‘arsenic eaters’ from the pre-20th century rural population of the Alps.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

A visual examination of groundbreaking research in the beta domain, such as gravitational waves, soft robotic matter, and DNA technology.

• Arturo Soto (MX)

A subjective visual narrative that captures the varying social values and disparities located in Panama’s urban environment.

• Christian van der Kooy (NL)

Reconstructing a lovers’ dialogue while Ukraine faced major changes. A reflection on intimacy in times of annexation and information warfare.

• Robert Pufleb (DE)
• Nadine Schlieper (DE)

A fantastical journey through a fictitious conceptualisation of the moon, using photographic close-ups of pancakes.

• Barry van der Rijt (NL)

A meta collection containing 527 individual scratches and ticks coming from damaged vinyl records.

• Anna Püschel (DE/FR)

A semi-scientific research study of synaesthesia, in which Püschel questions her own perception of reality.

• Arthur Mebius (NL)

Monitoring the routine operations by the North Korean aviation crew which appears as a rehearsed play of maintenance, controls and procedures.

• Lynn Alleva Lilley (US)

An exploration of sceneries, residents, refugees and animals in Jordan, using photography to make sense of what Alleva Lilley was seeing and feeling.

• Bruno van den Elshout (NL)

Set of postcards with a selection of horizons from the 2012 project New Horizons.

• Vincent Wittenberg (NL)
• Wladimir Manshanden (NL)

A vast collection of photographs made by companies hired to clean municipal property, archiving Eindhoven’s graffiti and sticker culture.

• Mels van Zutphen (NL)

Following the path of neutrino beams from CERN to Gran Sasso by car, resulting in a road movie and publication with a detailed map.

• Carina Hesper (NL)

A box with 32 prints with portraits of visually impaired Chinese orphans, all coated in black thermochromatic ink which turns transparent by touch.

• Esther Hessing (NL)
• Sophieke Thurmer (NL)

Firsthand stories of the people living and working in the Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl, 30 years after the nuclear accident.

• Claudia den Boer (NL)

A visual essay of calm spaces, focusing on the difference between silence and emptiness.

• Laura Van Severen (BE)

Investigating the transformation and fragmentation of the landscape around talc stone quarries in the Pyrenees.

• Peter Dekens (BE)

A memorable photo project about the coping process of surviving relatives of suicides in West Flanders, Belgium.

• Xiaoxiao Xu (CN/NL)

A documentary fairy tale about the dream of flying, focusing on several Chinese farmers bulding their own aircraft.

• BredaPhoto (NL)

The catalogue of the 7th edition of the festival, with a broad selection of photographic works.

• Geisje van der Linden (NL)
• Miriam Donkers (NL)

A long-term project on the Eastern European migrant workers of Stella Maris, a former monastery on the edge of the village Welberg.

• Martino Marangoni (IT)

A walk through an olive tree garden, through time, through personal memories and essentially trough the aging seasons of life.

• Roel Stavorinus (NL)

A collection of Dutch columns on the practice of designers, and their collaboration with clients.

• Michiel van der Zanden (NL)

A collection of paintings and objects rooted in conscious observations of oddities, with an ironic lightness.

• Barry van der Rijt (NL)

An inventory of codec orders, surprising glitches in digital movie playback, systematically categorized into typologies inspired by the DSM.

• Barry van der Rijt (NL)

An inventory of codec orders, surprising glitches in digital movie playback, systematically categorized into typologies inspired by the DSM.

• Barry van der Rijt (NL)

Set of postcards with a selection of codec orders, accompanying the book Exquisite Errors: DMCO-I.

• Miyuki Okuyama (JP/NL)

Documenting the offspring of Japanese soldiers and Indonesian women, born during the Pacific War, now living in the Netherlands.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

A visualisation of our desire to be connected at all times, by photographing the surfaces of various smartphones and tablets.

• René Beekvelt (NL)

This Neapolitan lottery spans your whole life. From naked birth to naked death, through hard times and warm summer nights.

• Hillie de Rooij (NL)

Playing with the visual characteristics and stereotypes that European media use to depict Africa.

• Hillie de Rooij (NL)

Playing with the visual characteristics and stereotypes that European media use to depict Africa.

• Bruno van den Elshout (NL)

A work of art in book form, focusing on the North Sea-horizon, rhythmically and melodically composed into a story without text.

• Christopher J Everard (GB)

An objective investigation of the guilt that surrounds the adult entertainment industry and the consumption of its products and services.

• Reinout van den Bergh (NL)

A portrait of the miners who lived in the mine housing estate in Beringen, where life and work went hand-in-hand.

• BredaPhoto (NL)

The catalogue of the 6th edition of the festival, with a broad selection of photographic works.

• Karin Borghouts (BE)

A poignant but serene look at a childhood home that was destroyed by fire.

• Polymorf (NL)

An intersection of essays and projects showing the current and future possibilities of scent in media and communication design.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

An examination of the development of new food crops and how this process bears upon the world food problem.

• Martino Marangoni (IT)

An appreciation of the beauty of contemporary architecture that ignore the need for inner privacy by creating spaces that are isolating.

• Karin Krijgsman (NL)
• Suzan Geldhoff (NL)

An investigation of photography in the digital world, focusing on the appropriation of photos found online.

• Isolde Venrooy (NL)

An overview of mixed media paintings in which figures and surroundings are isolated, merging into a new moment of time.

• Daan Paans (NL)

A documentary photographic research about people who wish to extend the human life span or even aim to become immortal.

• Graphic Matters (NL)

Catalogue accompanying the 2012 edition of Graphic Design Festival Breda, containing various essays and projects.

• Jos Jansen (NL)

An investigation of the mystic nature of high-tech research, focusing on the relationship between people and technology.

• Bruno van den Elshout (NL)

A prelude of the publication New Horizons, showing all North-Sea horizons captured on the 5th of May, 2012.

• Peter Dekens (BE)

A moving photo story about a young man born blind, captured during the twilight hours of the day in his apartment.

• BredaPhoto (NL)

The catalogue of the 5th edition of the festival, with a broad selection of photographic works.

• Karin Krijgsman (NL)
• Suzan Geldhoff (NL)

An investigation of photography in the digital world, focusing on the use of Google Street View.

• Martijn Honselaar (NL)
• Claudia den Boer (NL)

The discovery of a hidden world of open and meaningful spaces when researching the ribbon structure of the city of Tilburg.

• Sjoerd Knibbeler (NL)

A collection of photographs from parks, museums, and recreational areas, providing backstage access into contemporary Dutch amusement.

• Rob van Hoesel (NL)

An extensive typology of all 35 Belgian highways, photographed from a passenger seat’s view.