Spread out over seven Friday evenings, photographer Feriet Tunc of the Foundation Erwin Olaf and Roos Schouw from FOCUS explore the broad scope of photography together with a small group of new-comers to the Netherlands. From still life and street photography to studio portraits, self-portraits and the analogue craft of working in the darkroom, the workshops offers participants the opportunity to experiment, learn and discover their own visual language.
As a source of inspiration, we intend to visit exhibitions that can show participants various ways in which photography can be approached. Usually two out of the seven workshops consist of going to exhibitions about or involving photography.

Upon culmination of the workshop series, each participant receives a personal assignment: to create a short photographic series about their life in the Netherlands. We aim to organise one Newcomers workshop per year; next series will be held in December