Futures Nordic Talents at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2021

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Please join us for the first Magnum x FUTURES Artist Spotlight of 2026 with Visvaldas Morkevicius.

Visvaldas Morkevicius will present his latest photography project.

“Losing someone is like the sky surrendering a star, a note falling silent in a familiar tune. Everything changes, with memories lingering in the air like echoes in empty rooms. Moments resurface unexpectedly: fragments of laughter, the warmth of a touch, vivid and almost too real to be gone. Moving forward feels strange, like walking on uneven ground, each step shifting what once felt certain. You drift between shadows and light, caught between the past and the future. Something within you subtly rearranges, yet nothing feels completely whole.”

Using photography as a medium, the artist captures the emotional terrain of loss – fragmented memories, fleeting moments, and the interplay of absence and presence – creating visual echoes that explore the fragile balance between holding on and moving forward. Ultimately, the piece becomes a “letter to self of acceptance.”

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Online

Tuesday 22 September

5 - 6 pm Amsterdam time

Free – Registration required

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Please join us for the first Magnum x FUTURES Artist Spotlight of 2026 with Sára Kölcsey.

Sára Kölcsey will present her latest work.

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About FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight:

Five times a year, Magnum Learn invites a FUTURES photographer to take the spotlight in an online conversation about their artistic journey. The series connects audiences worldwide with the artist’s practice, inspirations, and the ideas behind their work.

We also hope to inspire the next generation of photographers, providing them with the opportunity to connect with fellow artists.

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Online

Tuesday 30 June

5 - 6pm Amsterdam time

Free – Registration required

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‍Join us for Michaela Nagyidaiová's Open Studio, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub. Michaela Nagyidaiová will present her project “Red Hills” as part of the FUTURES Residency.

Michaela Nagyidaiová is a Slovak visual artist based in Vienna. Her work explores the connection between landscape and memory, the transformation of Central and Eastern European environments, migration, and questions of roots.

"The forest continues to be claimed, mapped, and transformed. For centuries, woodlands in Slovakia have been shaped by the rhythms of the natural world, by the traditions and rituals of people who lived among them, and by the weight of shifting empires, wars, and political systems. With forty-one percent of the land covered in trees, the forest is more than a landscape - it's a memory, a site of ancestral practices and livelihoods." - Michaela Nagyidaiová

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Event details

6 May 2026 | 17:00 – 20:00

FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 CA Amsterdam

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During the Open Studio, visitors will be able to explore the project on display and listen to a new soundpiece made in collaboration with a sound designer from recordings collected in the forests while making the project. The artist will also be experimenting with scents in the space, inviting visitors to explore them firsthand and note which emotions or memories each smell evokes. A talk will explore the project’s process and the research that informs it, offering insight into how the work was developed and the ideas behind it.

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Please join us for the first FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight of 2026 with Parisa Aminolahi.

Paris Aminolahi will present her first photo-book, How the Nights Can Fly, published by Huwawabooks.

How the Nights Can Fly (formerly Tehran Diary) is a long-term photographic project by Parisa Aminolahi, tracing the intimate life of her mother across Tehran and temporary reunions with her children living abroad. Begun in 2012, the work reflects on distance, migration, aging, and the quiet weight of filial love shaped by the Iranian diaspora following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Photographed on 35mm black-and-white film and later intervened with acrylic paint on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper Supreme, the images form a hybrid language between photography and painting. The painted gestures transform everyday moments into surreal, tactile spaces, echoing both the emotional distance between mother and child and the artist’s attempt to hold on to presence across continents.

Over time, the project became a deeply personal and therapeutic process, with the artist’s mother emerging as both subject and muse. Following her mother’s passing in 2022, the work gained a new resonance, shifting from documentation toward memory, absence, and care.

The dummy was developed under the guidance of Corinne Noordenbos and has since evolved through a new edit, concept, and title in collaboration and under the guidance of designer and publisher Roï Saade. The book is envisioned to be published by Huwawabooks, Saade’s newly founded publishing house.

Previously titled Tehran Diary, the project has received wide international recognition, including being shortlisted for the MACK First Book Award, BUP Book Award, and PHmuseum Women Photographers Grant, and has been exhibited and published extensively worldwide.

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Details:

Online

Tuesday 14 April

5 - 6 pm Amsterdam time

Free – Registration required

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