The exhibiton Metamorphosis opens on October 4 at the Holešovice Market, Hall 13, in Prague.
The exhibition presents eight artistic approaches that explore how social structures, modes of perception, and memory evolve over time. The presented projects address urgent political and social issues of today – from the impact of conflicts across the Eurasian continent to ecological and introspective themes. They interweave myth, both collective and personal memory, and shifting narratives that influence our ability to understand the past and navigate the present. The exhibiting artists explore how identity is formed between reality and fiction, between individual story and broader societal framework.
Ksenia Ivanova, Benedetta Casagrande, Vitalii Halanzha, Emilia Martin, Anna Orłowska, Yana Wernicke, Viktoriia Tymonova and Balázs Turós differ in visual language and initial context, but are united by their sensitivity to liminal and transitional situations. Their works depict the world as a space of constant change.
The selection of projects was prepared by curators Emese Mucsi (Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest), Raphaëlle Stopin (Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, France) and Světlana Malina (Fotograf Zone, Czech Republic). The theme of the exhibition was developed in close collaboration with Angel Luis Gonzalez and Julia Gelez (PhotoIreland / OVER Journal). The exhibition, curated by Světlana Malina, is presented for the first time as part of the Fotograf Zone festival in Prague.
Exhibition run: 4 October - 12 October 2025
Location: Holešovice Market, Hall 13, Prague, Czech Republic
More info at https://fotograf.zone/
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Union. The Swiss program is supported by Pro Helvetia.
Credits image Máté Bartha
During this year FUTURES Annual Event, hosted by Fotograf Zone in Prague between October 3-5, FUTURES artists will have the opportunity to take part in dedicated workshops focusing on building narratives, the role of titles and annotations, and the relationship between photography and algorithms.
With writer Petra Hůlová they will learn strategies of combining text with visual material in order to create new meaning and gain knowledge about subversive potential of annotation.
Artists Tereza Zelenková and Peter Watkins will challenge the workshop participants to edit and re-edit their own photographic series responding to prompts and to explore unusual sequencing strategies and narrative framings.
The third workshop will be led by an experimental artist Oliver Chanarin who will encourage the artists to work with their own, found or archival photographs, freely combining them with text-based or coded elements while putting emphasis on playful approaches to language, shifting meanings, and critical reflection on contemporary visual culture.
The workshops during the Annual Event are curated exclusively for FUTURES artists.
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Union. The Swiss program is supported by Pro Helvetia.
This year the FUTURES Annual Event will be hosted by Fotograf Zone in Prague. Artists and international curators will meet from 3 to 5 October in the frame of the Fotograf Zone Festival, within an inspiring and dynamic environment. The three-day program will include the opening of two exhibitions to the general public: Metamorphosis, showcasing for the first time the projects by the FUTURES artists selected for this year annual theme, and Ties That Bind, whose journey comes to and end in Prague, after travelling to Porto and Zagreb. Both exhibitions have been curated by Světlana Malina and are part of the Fotograf Zone Festival 2025 with the topic TALK TOGETHER.
Over the course of the event, FUTURES artists will have the opportunity to take part in dedicated workshops focusing on building narratives, the role of titles and annotations, and the relationship between photography and algorithms, as well as portfolio reviews with international experts, feedback sessions and networking moments.
The Annual Event is exclusively for FUTURES artists.
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Union. The Swiss program is supported by Pro Helvetia.
Join us for an Open Studio with Olena Morozova, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub. She will present her project The Roots Are Breathing, developed during her September residency in Amsterdam as part of the FUTURES x MPB program.
“The Roots Are Breathing is an installation assembled from natural materials found on site: twigs, bark, leaves, dry plants, earth, stone, moss. Complemented by clay moulds and simple drawings on paper or cardboard, it forms a fragile, poetic composition spread out on the floor, a wooden surface or in a corner of the hall - as if nature itself had quietly come inside to remind us of itself.”
Event Details
Date: Thursday, 25 September 2025
Walk-in: 17:45 – 18:15
Artist Q&A: 18:30
Studio Open Until: 20:00
Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
👉 Please RSVP by 24th September 2025 to confirm your attendance.
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video equipment.
FUTURES & Magnum Photos invite you to join us for our next online Artist Spotlight with Sheung Yiu.
For this talk, Sheung Yiu will present his ongoing project (Inter)Faces of Predictions, or How To Read a Face.
Across Eastern and Western cultures, societies have developed ways to predict a person’s character through facial features. In East Asian cultures, the esoteric practice of face-reading promises the power to see into one’s future through facial analysis. Though face reading remains largely a folk belief, many continue to seek the occult power of predictions from face readers. In the West, the forgotten pseudo-science of physiognomy, combined with statistics and machine learning, re-enters our modern lives as facial recognition algorithms, perpetuating societal biases and individual prejudices.
In this project, Sheung Yiu blends the visual language of the occult in face reading with the “scientific” aesthetic of facial recognition to blur the lines between these practices from the East and West. This visual study reveals the similarities between the two predictive regimes centered around the face: one remains folklore, while the other is extensively applied to almost every aspect of our daily lives. The project challenges the automation bias of facial recognition (or what he calls “Western face reading”) and unveils the deeper, often unexamined belief system underlying these practices.
About FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight:
Every two months, we invite a photographer from the FUTURES platform to join us for an engaging online conversation about their artistic journey. Thanks to the online format, these talks are accessible to audiences around the world, offering a rare opportunity to hear directly from emerging artists about their work, motivations, and creative processes.
This series also aims to inspire the next generation of photographers by connecting them with practitioners who are still in the early stages of their careers—offering valuable insights and inspiration for others navigating similar paths.
Free – Registration required by following this link
© Sheung Yiu
Welcome to FUTURES: Learn with Magnum, the program developed by Magnum Photos for FUTURES artists (Exclusive to FUTURES artists)
With this program, we hope to help you address some of the questions, fears, and concerns you may encounter as you navigate the successes and challenges of a career in photography. We also aim to inspire you and foster a sense of community.
The next seminar will be dedicated to preparing and applying for open calls, and to creative commissions.
Open Calls – Led by Sebah Chaudhry, curator and producer
Monday 8 September
5.30pm–7pm CET*
In this session, you will be introduced to open calls, and the reasons why you should apply to them. There will be a 45 mins session with tips on how to apply for an open call - how to prepare your texts and images, and will include some examples of things to do/not to do. Sebah will also apply for an example open call. This will be followed by a 15 mins Q&A.
Open Calls – Led by Sebah Chaudhry, curator and producer
Tuesday 9 September
5.30pm–7pm CET*
Following the first session, go away and prepare for an open call submission yourself. Come with your examples of open call submissions and Sebah will workshop this through with some of you in a group setting for 60 mins, offering advice on your applications, and how to strengthen them.
*The first 30 minutes will be an informal catch-up with Sonia Jeunet for those of you who want to chat, ask questions or hang-out before we start. The sessions with Sebah will start at 6pm.
Creative Commissions – Led by Holly Hay and Ryan Evans
Tuesday 16 September
6pm-8pm CET
With Holly Hay – 6pm
Holly Hay is a London-based Image Director known for her work with leading global brands and magazines. Formerly Photography Director at Wallpaper* and AnOther Magazine, she now leads creative projects through her agency, ANNIKA. Her collaborations include Dover Street Market, Belmond, Hermès, Stella McCartney, Graff, Uniqlo, Nonfiction Beauty, Phaidon, IKEA, Brian O'Sullivan Studio, Marsèll, To My Ships, Magnum Photos, and Port Magazine, among others. ANNIKA delivers visual strategy, art buying, curation, creative ideation, art direction, and production for campaigns and content across print, digital, exhibitions, and publishing.
With Ryan Evans – 7pm
Ryan Evans is a Photo and AV Manager at Netflix, where he oversees the photography and video commissioning of the assets supporting our publicity campaigns for Netflix titles, including series and films. He holds a BA in Documentary Film and Television from The Newport Film School.
With more than five years of experience in the streaming and government sectors, he has led on the ideation, production, and execution of global creative campaigns and implemented strategic decisions using both photography and AV visual assets to create meaningful and impactful conversations and has worked with new and up-and-coming creatives.
©Myriam Boulos / Magnum Photos
Join us for an Open Studio with Leonardo Angelucci and Sabrina Cerea, from the Zürich-based studio UNSTATED, our newest residents at the FUTURES Hub.
Leonardo Angelucci and Sabrina Cerea will present their project From Nowhere.
As part of the FUTURES & MPB Residency, From Nowhere explores the act of seeing in the age of automation, using an autonomous agent to navigate satellite imagery and virtual maps, registering traces of space and presence through algorithmic vision. Paying tribute to On Kawara, the project reimagines mapping as a detached and procedural act. What emerges is a continuous performance across virtual territories: systematic, impersonal, and subtly poetic.
The event will include a workshop exploring the intersection of design, technology, and artificial intelligence, highlighting how creative reappropriation can extend the possibilities of interactive systems. It examines the evolving relationship between humans and machines, questioning how AI-driven decision-making shapes our interactions and perceptions.
Participants: The workshop is open to everyone and does not require any advanced programming knowledge. Designers, makers, creatives, artists, amateurs. Anyone with a genuine interest in the use of technology for creative purposes. Its goal is to provide an introductory overview of the available tools and possibilities, offering the basics to start exploring them independently
Maximum number of participants: 8
Duration: 2 hours
What you need: laptop
📅 Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 27th August 2025
Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
- Workshop: 16:00 – 18:00
- Artist Q&A: 18:30
- Studio Open Until: 20:00
🔗 RSVP by 26th August to confirm your attendance
About UNSTATED
UNSTATED is a Zürich–based practice that merges the physical and digital worlds through innovative strategy and design. They are committed to creating work that adapts to our changing environment.
About Leonardo Angelucci
Leonardo Angelucci is a Swiss-Italian graphic designer and coder, who completed his education in Visual Communication at SUPSI University in Southern Switzerland in 2013. He founded UNSTATED, a creative studio based in Zurich and Ticino, where he collaborates with a wide array of national and international clients, focusing mainly on projects within the cultural and art and institutional field. His work is characterized by a blend of graphic design and technology.
In addition to his professional practice at his studio, Leonardo is deeply involved in academic circles. He lectures on graphic design and interaction design at various universities throughout Switzerland and internationally.
About Sabrina Cerea
After graduating in 2011 in Visual Communication from SUPSI University in Lugano, she worked for a few years at ma.x. museo and at Spazio Officina of Centro Culturale Chiasso. She then moved to Zurich for an internship at MuDA Museum of Digital Art and to attend master courses in Curatorial studies at ZHdK, Zurich.
In 2016, she returned to Lugano to work for Studio Juma, Balerna, and then for CCRZ Studio, Balerna. Moving to Zurich, she began running her own studio, UNSTATED, with Leonardo Angelucci. She occasionally teaches workshops and classes at SUPSI Lugano.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video kit.
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).
Thursday, July 10 | 15:00–19:00
Come spend an afternoon with us at a special session of the FUTURES: Learn with Magnum Photos program. This event includes a live lecture led by Magnum followed by a friendly get-together with drinks and good conversation.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
The event is curated exclusively for FUTURES artists.
Join us for an Open Studio with visual artist Bobby Shuk Pui Yu, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub.
Bobby Shuk Pui Yu will present her ongoing project Curses, Human-faced Fish, Sadako Yamamura, which explores how folklore and visual culture materialize collective fears and societal anxieties through the transmission of curses.Inspired by two iconic Asian narratives—the Taiwanese legend of the human-faced fish and Sadako Yamamura from Japan’s Ring—her project examines how fear spreads through storytelling and visual media, shaping behaviors around self-preservation. As part of the FUTURES & MPB Residency, Bobby continued researching and developing her forthcoming solo exhibition at Fotografiens Hus (October 2025), investigating how traditional folklore evolves in contemporary contexts.
The event will include a workshop on Nightmare Sharing & Amulet Making
We will explore how our nightmares can hold hidden messages or subconscious “curses” that shape our fears and desires. Together, we will share personal dream experiences in a safe and supportive space, transforming them into protective amulets (護身符). Using materials like fabric, stuffing, or bed sheets, each participant will create a comforting object that symbolises courage and healing. This collective ritual invites us to turn shared anxieties into soft resistance and mutual support — carrying forward blessings rather than burdens.
📅 Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 2nd July 2025
Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
- Walk-in: 17:00 – 18:00
- Artist Q&A: 18:30
- Studio Open Until: 20:00
🔗 RSVP by June 30 to confirm you attendance!
About Bobby Shuk Pui:
Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Hong Kong and Oslo. Working across film, text, installation, sculpture, and performance, Bobby's practice centers on themes of identity construction, cultural displacement, and family mythology. Her work often reflects her personal experiences as an "escaper" navigating multiple languages without a fixed mother tongue, creating layered narratives filled with humor, surrealism, and empathy.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video kit.
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK)
Photo Credits: Jonas Carlsen
Join us on June 25 for the FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight featuring Rebecca Topakian.
Rebecca Topakian is a French-Armenian artist living between Paris region and Yerevan. After studying philosophy and geography, she turned to photography and graduated from the ENSP Arles in 2015. She is interested in defining identity through its invisible, mythological, and fictional dimensions.
For this talk, Topakian will present her photobook Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories.
Her starting point for the project is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is about the love of her great-grandparents – Garabed and Gulizar.
Topakian explored this part of her identity by choosing fiction and mythology. Bearing the love story of her ancestors in mind while she traveled and lived in Armenia, desire became the thread of this project: it is a desire for earth, ground, identity, but also for the other’s body acting almost as a mirror.
Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories will be on show at MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne from 14 June till 4 January 2026 as part of the Forever Young group show.
About FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight:
Every two months, we’ll invite a photographer from the FUTURES platform to join us for an engaging online conversation about their artistic journey. This series offers a unique chance for audiences worldwide to hear directly from the artist, gaining insight into their practice, motivations, and creative processes.
We also hope to inspire the next generation of photographers, providing them with the opportunity to connect with artists who recently began their careers.
© Rebecca Topakian