Framer Framed

9 Sep 2026
18:30 - 20:00

BredaPhoto: Slidefest

On 9 September 2026, as a prelude to the twelfth edition of the BredaPhoto Festival, BredaPhoto organises Slidefest, an evening of artist presentations focussed on the SWANA region. Six artists part of the festival present their work on the mezzanine of Framer Framed.

Each artist presents for 7 minutes, followed by Q+A with the audience. The evening is co-presented by Mohamed Somji, co-curator of BredaPhoto, and Farah Silvana-Kanaan, writer, editor and curator.

Artist presentations

Fatima Joumaa — From My Mother’s Novel: returning to South Lebanon, Fatima weaves her images through her mother Layla’s old notebook, a meditation on grief, memory, and women as keepers of collective history.

Sadiq Al-Harasi — What Do Fathers Leave Behind?: an autoethnographic search for an absent father, built from family archives, photography, writing, and sound into an experimental landscape of memory.

Amera Elnaal  — The Salt Ate Away Her Eyes: a tender document of her blind parents’ daily life in Tripoli, rooted in her childhood practice of narrating the world to them — stories in place of sight.

Noor Abed — we walk in our sleep: a film installation made with her community in Palestine, where language and choreography open a portal between the dead and the living. Noor will present film snippets and talk through her approach.

Çiğdem Yüksel — The Blossoming garden: Yüksel portrays the stories of Mohammed, Sultan, Lemia, Eda and Sema in a monumental tapestry in four parts. The five residents from the neighbourhood de Hoge Vucht in Breda, are pillars of support for their community.

Fouad Hallak — A Mind in the Past, Eyes on Tomorrow: after the Assad regime fell in December 2024, Fouad returned to Syria for the first time since fleeing in 2016 — photographs of streets and people he never expected to see again, holding fear and pain alongside something harder to name: hope.

Please register here. The programme is free of charge, with the option to purchase various fundraising goods in support of Palestine. BredaPhoto opens on 11 September 2026. Under the title Our Songs Came Through, the festival brings together stories of comfort, resilience, and hope.

Info & Credits

Slidefest is an event run by Gulf Photo Plus, a Dubai-based photography space that has been staging it around the world for over 15 years. This edition is supported by Framer Framed, Prince Claus Fund and Gulf Photo Plus.

This event is in English and takes place on the mezzanine at Framer Framed. Admission is free, pay what you can. Do you also think art should be free and accessible? Please consider supporting us with a donation when registering or by becoming a Framer Framed Friend! This event may be photographed and filmed. Kindly let us know in advance if you prefer not to have your picture taken. For seated programmes, places are always made available for wheelchair users. Please speak to the host before the programme begins.

Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.

Location

Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093KS, Amsterdam

Links

• BredaPhoto