Looking Back / Looking Forward [September 2022 — Januar 2023

Looking Back

New TeammaTes

We are happy to welcome new colleagues:

Daniel Siegersma (alumn MA Photography and Society) and Peter Zuiderwijk are co-teaching 'Spatial Design’ in the 3rd year after Tom van Kints retired at the end of last year.

Xaver Könneker (Alumn MA Photography and Society) has taken over theory.

Lina Selg (almun, Pineapple Road Press) is working together with John Fleetwood and a group of students on the photography department newsletter. She is also temporarily supporting the photo office while Linda van der Pool and Danielle Rosca are on leave.

Alex Avgud (alumn) has joined the team as well, taking on – among other tasks – office support, social media, network week support etc.

Mischa Appel is currently teaching the first years in their first workshop weeks – the poster project.

Welcome, everyone! We are looking forward to getting to know each other better. sepTember 2022

Start of Academic Year 2022-2023

29.09. Opening Lecture by Andy Sewell

A new round of new first years joined us, welcome! Find their faces in the "Family Portraits"

Transgressive behavior within the Fine Art Department There is an ongoing investigation regarding transgressive behavior from a Fine Art Department Teacher, whose contract was subsequently ended. Police continue to investigate the case. KABK and Photo Dept discussed this with students and staff to find ways of addressing how this affects our collective culture and community of care and can be prevented by openness and a clear Code of Conduct.

OkTOber 2022

20.10. A new Code of Conduct If you wish to read the new Code of Conduct you can find it here on the portal.

20.10. – 20.10 The Fool Collective Exhibition in Cologne Following their fieldtrip last year, students of the Fool Collective were invited to exhibit their work produced for the fieldtrip in Cologne at a symposium. At the same symposium, co-heads Lotte Sprenger and John Fleetwood presented a discussion on our dept. See more on page XXX

NOvember 2022

01.11. – 15.11 Dirk-Jan Visser and alumni Gus Drake attend COP27 Dirk-Jan and Gus traveled to the Sinai desert to work on their new collaborative project New Horizon Initiative and then presented it at the COP27. See some first visuals in their feature. 03.11. Donald Weber announced his future plans – a move to Finland! We’re crying but we’re happy for him. Any last (or first) questions for Don? Send them to us, we’ll catch him before he leaves!

10.11. – 13.11. Paris Photo 2022 Various teachers, students, and alumni attended Paris Photo this year, among them Donald Weber, who gave a talk about ‘the information front’ and alumna Katerina Motylova whose graduation work ‘Loss’ was shortlisted for the Aperture Paris Photo Book Award. Emily Josephine Rooney (alumna, pineapple road press) collected some of her favorite books during the weekend, find them on page XX

16.11. Teacher’s Day no2 The second teachers’ day of ‘22-’23 took place – a key focus of the workshops and discussions was intercultural understanding and how it can be translated into the curriculum, and dualities such as self/ relevance, documentary/fiction….

26.11. Open Day 2022 What a day! We’re curious whose face we might see again in the next year.....good luck to everyone applying to the BA photography! Collective Assessments 1, 3, 7 Find all dates and information in your CA Teams channels, for example: PHft2D_CA3. If you haven’t seen the channel before, check under hidden channels (below your list of channels). PH1: 19.12/20.12/21.12 PH2: 16.12/19.12/20.12 PH4: 13.12/14.12/15.12

Winter Break 22nd December, 5 pm: you’re free! Enjoy your break.

JaNuary 2023

Network week 2023 ‚Common Ground‘ This year's Network Week will take place 16/1 - 19/1.

Speed Dating Event Coming January 2023. Keep your eyes open for posters!

Edu Com meetings happen regularly about every 6 weeks, please chat with your class rep about this, see the minutes.

December 2022

03.12. – 11.12 KABK explores exchange opportunities in India Together with other heads of department, John Fleetwood will travel to India on an exploratory trip to find exchange opportunities for KABK with Indian counterparts. They will visit institutions in Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, and New Delhi.

12.12. Fieldtrip Destination Announcement The destination of the 2nd year fieldtrip will be revealed on Dec 12 at 11h30 at the academy, streamed online for PT