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From the 1st until the 30th of June at Amsterdam Outsider Art. Opening starts at 2pm.

Risja Steeghs and art photographer Lilith grouped together over a year ago for a wonderful project.
A story about girl power and courage in difficult circumstances, the Lyme disease that confined Risja into bed for over a year.

In February 2012 Risja Steeghs contacted Lilith via Facebook asking to work together in a project in order to draw attention to the Lyme disease. The art photographer came up with the proposal for a special art series. A book with documentary footage and pictures of Risja as model, supplemented with collages made ​​by Risja herself. And also a travelling exhibition which started in November 2012 at Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg at Roermond, the Netherlands.
The benefits will go to the new foundation Stg. TeekOnMe, which supports research in the field of Lyme Disease.

More info: http://www.teekonme.nl/en/

3 new exhibitions at Foam from the 14th of July: Stephen Gill – Best Before End, Monica Nouwens – Look At Me And Tell Me If You Have Known Me Before, Foam 3h: Lara Dhondt – Memento.

Stephen Gill – Best Before End
Gill’s most recent series Best Before End was created with the aid of energy drinks which resulted in fantastical, abstract and vividly coloured works that through their intensity reflect contemporary, hectic urban life. First, he placed objects in the camera before taking the photographs, as he had done in the previous series. The negatives were later immersed in the energy drinks, which made the images shift their positions, disruptions to appear and softened the film emulsion. This made it possible to manipulate the emulsion – to stretch it, move it, tear it and to separate the various layers of the film, which were then reworked with a soft brush.

Until the 14th of July 2013

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The Mark of Abel, Photographs by Lydia Panas from the 11th of May at Eduard Planting Gallery Amsterdam.

American photographer Lydia Panas exhibits for the first time in The Netherlands. Set in the grimly green countryside of Pennsylvania, ‘The Mark of Abel’ is a collection of intense group portraits taken of her friends and family.

For three years Lydia invited families to stand before her lens. Nothing was deliberate or planned. These diverse groupings of children and adults, relatives and close friends, stood graciously before her, taking positions in relationship to each other and to the camera.

Exhibition will run until the 22nd of June.

More info: www.eduardplanting.com

Photo: ©Lydia Panas