Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (2.5/5)

Exhibitions:

Samuel Gratacap 'Les Invisibles' (2.5/5)

Thomas Albdorf 'Room With a View' (1.0/5)

'Structures of Identify' from the Walther Collection (3.5/5)  

'Les Invisibles', well-titled - the refugee problem we'd rather disappeared, refugees wanting to disappear. Too often in this collection people disappear without context, they could be at a music festival. Shocking stories occasionally matched by the images.

Is Albdorf's surreal recasting of visual sterotypes very clever or just taking the…? I don't know.

'Structures' rewards careful viewing, Historical and contemporary portrait collections of the famous and nameless, within which the linkages give cause for reflection. 

Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; Sunday 8 July 2018

Visual Arts: Photography