Launching the new MIAP platform: The Future Of Nature
What happens when 6 visual artists envision new perspectives on nature? Proudly presenting the multimedia stories of the future of nature collective. The stories are interactive and function as teasers to spark conversations and start new collaborations. In July 2020...
Suzette Bousema
Before we started the open call, two photographers were already supported by MIAP to make work within the theme 'The future of nature'. One of them is Suzette Bousema.Suzette Bousema visualizes environmental hyperobjects in her science based practice.With the MIAP...
Eddo Hartmann
The second photographer who was already supported by MIAP before we started the open call is Eddo Hartmann.With the MIAP 2020 grant Eddo has been working on his multimedia project 'The collective landscape'.The project focuses on various scientific research from...
THE FUTURE OF NATURE COLLECTIVE
Proudly presenting the Future of Nature collective! We are truly happy with the composition of the group, where people with different backgrounds, level of experience and wildly differing subjects come together. The collective consists of: Alex Kemman: Green...
OPEN CALL MIAP GRANT 2020
Are you a visual storyteller/artist? Are you based in the Netherlands? Are you interested in how we are interrelated with nature? If so: please click the button below, read all about the grant and apply.
The MIAP Story Tree
Visual storytellers bring to light what others have not yet seen. More than ever, these times of great change demand new visions and new possibilities. The MIAP Story Tree illustrates how natural cycles are all around us. Recognizing the importance of visual stories,...
Here they are
Here they are! The 6 photographers who have been commissioned to promote and produce visual journalism with a solution focus. Read more about the stories they are producing and get inspired....
Invisible poverty in Holland…
This year MIAP supported 5 short videos for the Generation Poor project by Annabel Oosteweeghel. In a rich country as the Netherlands, poverty is also just a doorstep away. Through intimate portraits and videos Annabel shows the lives, loves and losses of different...
MIAP is proud to support the world premiere of ‘The space between us’ at IDFA DocLab, Tolhuistuin.
What does it mean to have a doppelgänger, a spiritual double or a twin? Or do we all have digital doubles of ourselves today, whether we want it or not? The interactive installation The Space in Between Us explores the often concealed spaces between seemingly clear...
The start of a new initiative to promote and produce visual journalism with a solutions focus
The World Press Photo Foundation and MIAP have begon an initiative to promote and produce visual journalism with a solutions focus. The Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative (SVJI) has three objectives: Develop what a solutions focus means for visual...
PHOTOGENIE!
PhotoGenie is a platform powered by Message In A Photo, that offers young adults a medium to get inspired and gain awareness about relevant social topics. Society, the world around us and our own assumptions are questioned in constant visual research. What do we see,...
MIAP’S Visual Story Curators
MIAP has expanded! We are proud to announce we have found six motivated students to work with us on developing our platform! Our aim is to create a new accessible platform that offers a medium for young adults to get inspired as well as create awareness about relevant...
MIAP is looking for you!
MIAP is looking for you! MIAP is expanding. In this video, Charlie and Diane discuss MIAP's successes so far and describe why we need you in order to expand. Are you a good communicator, a team-player and do you enjoy doing research? Do you have a positive and...
Act now!
WHY DO WE NEED YOU? Our aim is to create a new accessible platform that offers a medium for young adults to get inspired as well as create awareness about relevant social topics. The platform should trigger the audience to adopt a critical attitude towards today’s...
MIAP Fellowship 2016
In September 2016 the MIAP Fellowship took place. This fellowship was tailor made to give the selected fellows ideas and tools to take their visual project to the next level. MIAP invited experts and thinkers to join the fellows. These experts and thinkers were...
Anne Geene’s Little Water Almanac
Anne Geene (NL, 1983) collected, studied and captured the water that surrounds us in all its aspects and appearances. She discovered the best place to live in the Netherlands when it comes to the cheapest drinking water; researched the microscopic life in it; how to...
Machine – Marie-José Jongerius
Our relationship to nature – and how we try to shape and control it – is an important theme for Marie-José Jongerius (NL, 1970). Her interest in water lies in the fact that, while it is vital to our existence, we take its presence and availability for granted. The...
Treasure of the Bee – Nina Kopp
How will we feed the growing population? That’s one of the main questions of our time. One of the hardest workers in agriculture is often forgotten in this debate: the bee. Yet it is responsible for approximately one third of our food. Without pollination, there would...
Food – Henk Wildschut
Few subjects generate as much discussion as that of food. And such discussion is increasingly marked by suspicion and pessimism about how our food is produced. In 2013, Henk Wildschut (NL, 1967) was invited to make an in-depth study on the subject of Food for the...
In my dreams I want to become a tourist – Anaïs López | Paulien Bakker | Anisleidy Martinez
In In my dreams I want to become a tourist by journalist Paulien Bakker (NL, 1975), filmmaker Anisleidy Martinez (Cuba, 1983), and photographer Anaïs López (NL, 1981), show how the lives of the authors and their three main subjects become entwined. The authors...