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Trigger is a publication initiated by FOMU that offers space for reflection on photography.

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📅 Save the date! 📅

Critical Beans returns on Friday 13 November 2026, 11am, at Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris.

This is a free event open to everyone, no need to book.

Critical Beans is a get-together organised by PhotoIreland in collaboration with Fotomuseum Antwerpen (FOMU) where visitors can enjoy strong coffee and urgent conversations around contemporary art. Each international speaker shares a brief insight on their current work and preoccupations, driving the focus of the morning session in rapid-fire propositions that are opened to the audience.

At the event, PhotoIreland and FOMU will present the latest release of OVER Journal issue 6 and Trigger #7: Ocean through convesrsations with the contributors, who are invited to share their latest projects and cultural concerns, and thoughts.

The get-together is followed by a tour of the Centre Culturel Irlandais premises. Visitors can additionally enjoy the current exhibition ‘Portrait of an Irish collector’ presented as part of the PhotoSaintGermain festival, organised in collaboration with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, presenting a selection of photographs from the collection of David Kronn.

SCHEDULE
10.30am Doors open
11am Welcome
11:05am PhotoIreland introduces OVER Journal issue 6, presenting the themes discussed by the artists and contributors.
11:10am FOMU – Museum of Photography (Antwerp) presents Trigger #7: Ocean. Submerge yourself in the publication with guest editor Irene Solé Quevedo, followed by a 15-minute proposition by curator and writer Raquel Villar-Pérez, exploring what it might mean for photography to listen more closely to the ocean, and what new ways of thinking and working with images this might open up.
11:25am Speaker 2: Giya Makondo-Wills, Artist, Educator
11:35am Speaker 3: Rhiannon Adam, Artist
11:45am Speaker 4: Alejandro León Cannock, Curator, Artist
11:55am Q&A and participation from the audience
12.30pm A tour of the Centre Culturel Irlandais premises taken in Centre Culturel Irlandais by @triggerfomu

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Un/binding the book as an ocean...

or, a sneak preview from the printer.

@hadalflux @c.m.b.8 @dhia.dhibi @matthewjbeach @travisthejellyfish @shookstudio @yvettemonahan @simone__kessler @nicolas.floch @sonia__levy @bianca_baldi @hyeongjinoh_waterways @alicewsharp @rosbiscotti @aliki.ch @taoleighgoffe @shaofenghsu @rosalacavalla @annaridler @yukikihara @ceciliasordicampos @noorfromthewall @nswinston @luciarebolino @anastasiamyseiko @chiarinai @marjolijn_dijkman @fiepke @nienkecoers
@tomlyon @raquelie_sa @arko.sinha @tanya_traboulsi @semlangendijk @hiranabi @zahrammm @ileananana

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TRIGGER #7 Ocean in Paris - November

We’re bringing the new TRIGGER book to Paris for a weekend of encounters, conversations, and more.

FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER

11:00–13:00
Critical Beans
Centre Culturel Irlandais, with PhotoIreland
5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

Critical Beans is a broader programme of short, open-ended propositions around photography. For its third edition, we’re carving out a small space for Ocean: Raquel Villar-Pérez will offer a 15-minute rapid-fire proposition asking what might happen if photography were to listen more closely to the ocean - and what this might open up for thinking about where photography is heading, and how we might do things differently.

Introduced by Ocean guest editor Irene Solé Quevedo. More on the wider Critical Beans programme soon.

17:00 onwards
Informal drinks & meeting with authors and contributors
Fw:Books stand, Paris Photo

Meet some of the people behind Ocean and celebrate the book together. Everybody welcome.

SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER

11:00–13:00
TRIGGER #7 Ocean - book launch & conversation
Atelier Néerlandais, with FOTODOK

A conversation bringing Ocean into dialogue with artists connected to FOTODOK’s exhibition A Wider Gaze. With Sonia Levy, Chiara Indelicato, Fiepke van Niel & Nienke Coers, Tom Lyon, Aldeide Delgado (WOPHA), Maite Vanhellemont and Julia Gat. Moderated by guest editor Nuria Bofarull.

A Wider Gaze is open 6–15 November, 11:00–18:00.

Atelier Néerlandais
22 Avenue Victoria, 75001 Paris

TRIGGER #7 Ocean explores what happens when we move beyond the ocean as a clear blue image and start thinking with it: as an environment, a living system, a history, a force.

If you’re in Paris for Paris Photo, come by and follow the current.

Thanks to Julien Galland @jugld for the visual.

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TRIGGER #7: Ocean
Out in November 2026.

Ocean explores what happens when we move beyond the ocean as a clear blue image and start thinking with it: as a living 'engine', a history, a force. What can photography do with what is submerged, obscured, moving, microscopic or beyond the frame?

Bringing together photography, art, writing and marine research, the book moves through underwater vision, marine life, migration, maritime memory, colonial histories, climate change, fisheries and subsea infrastructures. It is less interested in the ocean as an image than in what the ocean 'does' to images, practices and the gaze.

With Mae Lubetkin, Carolin Brendel, Dhia Dhibi, Matthew James Beach, Travis Brandwood, SHOOK Studio, Yvette Monahan, Simone Kessler & Cristina Zenato, Nicolas Floc’h, Mike Twardowski, Sonia Levy & Amjed Khiareddine, Bianca Baldi & Miranda Lowe, Hyeongjin Oh, Shariq Shah, Alice Sharp, Rossella Biscotti, Toby Yuen-Gen Liang & Dionysios Raitsos, Aliki Christoforou, Tao Leigh Goffe, Ali Shobeiri & Shao-Feng Hsu, Rosa Lacavalla, Ayasha Guerin, Anna Ridler, Ileana Selejan & Yuki Kihara, Cecilia Sordi Campos, Noor van der Wal, Nechama Winston, Lucia Rebolino, Anastasía Miseyko, Chiara Indelicato, Marjolijn Dijkman, Fiepke van Niel & Nienke Coers, Bruna Casas & Anna Montraveta Riu, Tom Lyon.

Guest-editors: Nuria Bofarull & Irene Solé Quevedo @oceanographies_collective
Coordinator: Tom Viaene @fomuantwerp

@hadalflux @c.m.b.8 @dhia.dhibi @matthewjbeach @travisthejellyfish @shookstudio @yvettemonahan @simone__kessler @nicolas.floch @sonia__levy @bianca_baldi @hyeongjinoh_waterways @alicewsharp @rosbiscotti @aliki.ch @taoleighgoffe @shaofenghsu @rosalacavalla @annaridler @yukikihara @ceciliasordicampos @noorfromthewall @nswinston @luciarebolino @anastasiamyseiko @chiarinai @marjolijn_dijkman @fiepke @nienkecoers @tomlyon
Also featured: @arko.sinha @sem.langendijk @hiranabi @zahrammm @tanya_traboulsi @isaacjulien Allan Sekula
Credits: @invisible_dust @whoi.ocean @darklaboratory @brittlnv @niozsearesearch @breda_photo @helen_czerski
Not without you: @eline.adriaensen @heyitsabel @aliciacristo @lilikurcz @anastasiamiseyko Elena Musetti
Design: @fw.books by @triggerfomu

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Down we go.

Trigger #7: Ocean, the seventh publication in the Trigger series initiated by FOMU – Museum of Photography Antwerp, is now going to print. Out in November.

What happens when photography meets the ocean, not simply as something to photograph, but as a living, shifting world of currents, relations, memory, movement and uncertainty?

Guest-edited by Oceanographies Collective (Nuria Bofarull & Irene Solé Quevedo), the book brings together artists, photographers, scientists and writers, moving from deep waters to shores, ports and surface worlds.

Four currents — Drift, Turbidity, Trace and Weave — offer different ways through this ocean of images and ideas.

Cover image:
Day old Pacific and Atlantic cannonball jellyfish ephyrae (baby jellyfish) ready to swim away and find a new home ©Travis Brandwood

Designed by Hans Gremmen / Fw:Books.

After many months of submergence, thinking, editing, cutting, rearranging, drifting, getting lost and finding our way again, this one is finally heading to the press.

Out November 2026, through Fw:Books and the FOMU webshop.

More soon.

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‘Nostalgia as a Network’ - an article I started writing exactly a year ago that was published in @triggerfomu online magazine last spring. Celebrating the 37th anniversary of The Baltic Way seems like the perfect opportunity to share my discussion with @90s_latvia & @eesti_90ndad about how nostalgia for the early Independence period of the Baltic States, connects people virtually.

Special thanks to @tom.viaene.31 @andreastultiens and @willboase for guidance! by @triggerfomu

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How does publishing shape collective gathering and exchange? Join us during Tashattot’s 𝙎𝙒𝘼𝙉𝘼 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 & 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 for 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀, a conversation on publishing, traces, and collective practices with Joachim Ben Yakoub, Barrack Zailaa Rima and Charbel Alkhoury, moderated by Tom Viaene⁠
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📅 06.06. 18h-20h at Kaaistudios⁠
🗣️ EN⁠
🩶 FREE (limited capacity, come early)⁠
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This conversation departs from the book 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧 #6: 𝘼𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨, approaching publishing as a form of gathering. Through the lens of “paper assemblies,” it explores how printed matter such as magazines, posters, and postcards can carry traces, circulate stories, and continue to bring people together across time and place. The panel considers how publishing connects dispersed geographies, and how traces, memories, and stories continue to circulate, gather, and shift meaning over time. ⁠
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📸 cover of Trigger #6: Assemblies taken in Kaaistudio's by @triggerfomu

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𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨: 𝘽𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 by Mo’min Swaitat is an ode to the author’s Palestinian Bedouin background, a people who preserve their identity through sound, and not material archives. Fond memories of the yarghul and a rediscovery of Tariq cassettes, where decades of Arab music have been collected, led to the birth of the Palestinian Sound Archive, a decolonial project focused on celebrating Palestinian music and their links to the country’s history. Despite the hostility facing their heritage, the people assemble.

𝗠𝗼’𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁 is a London-based Palestinian Bedouin actor, filmmaker, artist, and label owner. He trained at the Freedom Theatre in Jenin and the London Inter national School of Performing Arts (LISPA) in London and Berlin. In 2020, he founded the Majazz Project and the Palestinian Sound Archive after uncovering thousands of vintage tapes and records in Jenin. His work re issues and reanimates forgotten sounds— from Bedouin weddings to revolutionary music—combining storytelling, performance, and archival practice to preserve and celebrate Palestinian cultural heritage in contemporary art and sound.

@majazzproject

This essay is part of the archival section of Trigger #6: Assemblies, highlighting the diverse practices and contributions that shape the project’s evolving archive. This section turns to the archive and engages with the material traces of radical assemblies that reveal resistance as a continuum, persisting whether anyone is watching or not.

Image: Artwork used for the latest Palestinian Sound Archive release (August 2025), a 1970s Bedouin field recording of my uncle Atef Swaitat and vocalist Abu Ali featuring original cas- sette artwork. Design by Hilal.

Guest editor @taous_r_dahmani
@fomuantwerp

Revisited by editors @eline.adriaensen @heyitsabel by @triggerfomu

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In a media landscape shaped by deepfakes, algorithmic image production, and growing distrust in representation, ideas of clarity and objectivity have taken on renewed cultural value.

In her latest article for TRIGGER, writer, editor and curator Ilaria Sponda reflects on how the aesthetics of objectivity continues to shape the way images are read, trusted, and legitimised today.

Through the notion of “symbolic capital,” the essay considers how visual clarity operates not only as a style, but also as a mechanism of authority within contemporary image culture and the post-truth condition.

Image:
Exhibition view of 'Typologien: Photography in 20th-century Germany'
Curated by Susanne Pfeffer
Photo: Roberto Marossi
Courtesy Fondazione Prada

Article online design by @anastasiamiseyko

Read the full article via the link in bio.

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@pinakothekdermoderne by @triggerfomu

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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙨 𝙄𝙩 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙚𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙙 explores what is left behind from political violence through an examination of archival images of gatherings. A 1926 photo of an execution in Marjeh Square, Damascus is in the focus; the hanged man’s thoughts as the public witnesses. The square is not merely a place for gatherings, but becomes a site for (post)colonial power and discipline, where fear lives and breathes. Death is not where violence ends. Violence lives on in the memory of the people and haunts empty spaces.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗔𝗜𝗙) is a Beirut-based independent association dedicated to exploring photography and image practices across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Arab diaspora. With a collection of over 500,000 photographic objects built over two decades, the AIF fosters artistic creation, research, and archiving. Through critical and innovative approaches, it rethinks and activates images to reflect on complex social and political realities. The AIF welcomes artists, researchers, students, and the public to engage with its digital platform, physical space, and collaborative projects worldwide.

@arabimagefoundation

This essay is part of the archival section of Trigger #6: Assemblies, highlighting the diverse practices and contributions that shape the project’s evolving archive. This section turns to the archive and engages with the material traces of radical assemblies that reveal resistance as a continuum, persisting whether anyone is watching or not.

Image: From the series Execution Squares. © Hrair Sarkissian

Guest editor @taous_r_dahmani
@fomuantwerp

Revisited by editors @eline.adriaensen @heyitsabel by @triggerfomu

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𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨: 𝙊𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 chronicles the complexity of research into Arab art history through fragmented archives, and recenters artists’ agency and lived realities, which have so often been neglected. Within Alexandria’s art scene as a hub of artistic collaboration, Seif Wanly’s painting The Wedding Announcement Dinner is highlighted. It depicts a celebration of the marriage between the painter and the artist Ehsan Mokhtar, whose contributions to the field have been severely underappreciated. Through artistic figures such as these, among many others, a picture emerges of a community that flourished on the act of sharing and close-knit connections; a testament to the radicality inherent to working together.

𝗡𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝗻 is a writer, art historian, and curator whose work focuses on the arts and cultural production of the Arab world and wider region. Born in Cairo, Egypt, she currently lives in London. She holds master’s degrees in the history of art from The Courtauld and in arts management and cultural policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a bachelor’s in visual arts from the American University in Cairo.

@nadinenour

This essay is part of the archival section of Trigger #6: Assemblies, highlighting the diverse practices and contributions that shape the project’s evolving archive. This section turns to the archive and engages with the material traces of radical assemblies that reveal resistance as a continuum, persisting whether anyone is watching or not.

Guest editor @taous_r_dahmani
@fomuantwerp

Revisited by editors @eline.adriaensen @heyitsabel by @triggerfomu

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In 𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚, Sara Sallam engages with colonial archival photography in Egypt, examining how images produced under British rule shaped what was seen, and what was erased. Through the archive of K. A. C. Creswell, Sara Sallam interrogates how architectural documentation often obscures the presence of Egyptians and the violence of the empire behind a focus on monuments and built form.
By reworking and collaging archival fragments, the project recentres the bodies, voices, and lived realities that existed outside the frame, disrupting the colonial logic of visibility and preservation.

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗺 is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Egypt and now lives in the Netherlands. Her research-based practice includes photography, moving images, writing, voice narration, archival interventions, and book-making. She focuses on retelling contested histories through counter-narratives centred around empathy to decolonise her Egyptian heritage.

@sarasallam

This essay is part of the archival section of Trigger #6: Assemblies, highlighting the diverse practices and contributions that shape the project’s evolving archive. This section turns to the archive and engages with the material traces of radical assemblies that reveal resistance as a continuum, persisting whether anyone is watching or not.

Image: Revolution, Not an Aqueduct, from the series Piercing the Architectural Frame, Sara Sallam, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Developed during a Jameel Fellowship at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Guest editor @taous_r_dahmani
@fomuantwerp

Revisited by editors @eline.adriaensen @heyitsabel by @triggerfomu

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