Photo studio at Stedelijk Museum with
South African students and Lebohang Tlali

In 2017, when Ad, Lebohang and Margalith brought van Denderen’s 1990 photos back to Welkom they also gave photography workshops in three secondary schools with diverse backgrounds and student populations: Teto High, Welkom Gimnasium and Goudveld Hoërskool. The students’ work became part of Welkom Today at the Stedelijk Museum as well as a pop-up exhibition at CBK Zuidoost. A delegation of 12 representatives from the three schools, including students, teachers and principals will visit Amsterdam from September 20-26 to meet people and organisations engaged in culture, education, media and social enterprise.

At the Stedelijk Museum and CBK Zuidoost they will discuss the role photography can play in education, as well as the meaning of visual arts to society; who’s values are shown, how are they kept, and how and for whom are they accessible? Tony’s Chocolonely will introduce them to the agenda behind a socially driven enterprise. At the picture desk of NRC Handelsblad they will get an idea of the daily process of media and the role of photography. Where do the images come from and how does a newspaper create stories? At Black Archives, we hope to understand more about the painful blind spots a dominant culture has shaped when it comes to minorities.

The visit of the delegation has been made possible by the generous support of Gemeente Amsterdam, corporate sponsors and private donors from the Netherlands and South Africa including Marlene Dumas, Mulaudzi’s Development Projects, Sparta Beef, Practicon Trading Enterprise, Koakoariri Media, Youth Dialogue, Lele & Tshidi, Sedibeng Water and the Phillips family.

Welkom Today is a collaboration between Stedelijk Museum, CBK Zuidoost and Paradox.

Why do people migrate? Where to and for what reasons? What is the fate of the different indigenous populations in the Americas? In Via PanAm, photographer Kadir van Lohuizen investigated the roots of migration in the Americas, a phenomenon which is as old as humanity but is increasingly portrayed as a new threat to the Western world.

A free web version of the legendary 2011 Via PanAm iPad-only app is now available. The app follows Van Lohuizen’s footsteps from Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile to Prudhoe Bay, northern Alaska. Travelling almost 40,000 km along the Pan-American Highway and crossing through 15 countries, Van Lohuizen visualized the stories of the communities, regions, and societies he encountered. His work reflects a diverse range of migration experiences both historic and contemporary. Through blogs, photo reports, video and audio we see the variety of motivations migrants have, the roads they travel and the (often informal) infrastructures they enter into.

Please note: The app was developed for desktop and tablet screens with a minimum width of 1024px. Use the arrow keys for alternative control of the scroll wheel and to move forward and backward inside reports.