Amsterdam / A painted chapter of your photo project
Choose the images whose relationships should survive the move from a photographic project to canvas.
A photographic project can contain many images without needing a painting of every frame. We can paint your authorized selection, including a pair or set designed to be seen together.
Tell us which visual links must continue across the canvases. Our studio in Dafen Art Village, Shenzhen, China, hand-paints the sequence from that brief.
For an organized exhibition, explain the studio’s production role and proposed medium to the host first. The project examples below do not establish admission for commissioned paintings.
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01 / Select the chapter, not only the strongest image
A sequence can change meaning when one image is removed. Choose the painted subset by what it needs to say, rather than by file resolution alone.
A portrait beside an empty room may tell a different story from the portrait on its own. If that relationship matters, include both references when asking for a quote.
Identify the opening image, the change in mood and the image that closes the sequence. You may decide that only one of those roles benefits from becoming a painting.
Keep any captions or project notes alongside the brief. They can explain why an apparently quiet area or repeated detail belongs in the composition.
Foam Talent’s 2026 call distinguished developed projects from randomly selected images. Its photographic selection model is useful context for thinking about a coherent project, not a painting submission route.
02 / Treat a pair as a pair
If two images depend on each other, show us their intended order as well as the individual files. A pair can lose its rhythm when both canvases are cropped independently.
Identify a horizon, eye level or repeated shape that should align across the set. Mark whether the relationship is exact or deliberately uneven.
A tall image and a wide image do not need identical canvas sizes. Give each its own dimensions and show their intended relationship.
Keep your layout reference with the individual image briefs. Use it when reviewing the finished works so a detail change does not accidentally weaken the set.
Foam’s call counted a diptych or set uploaded as one file as one image. That submission convention does not mean a physical set is one canvas or one production item.
03 / Give the painted chapter a real setting
Know where the selected canvases belong in your project before choosing the final quantity. An open studio and a curated gallery presentation can need different selections.
Amsterdam Art Week 2026 runs November 18–22. Inclusion depends on the actual host and program; those dates alone do not establish a place for your work.
Tell us whether you want one painted chapter beside photographs or a complete set of canvases. That distinction gives us a useful starting point for the quote.
For an earlier studio presentation, use its own receiving and installation dates. We will discuss feasibility against your brief rather than assume a public event date is achievable.
04 / Keep the photographic project clear
For your Amsterdam painted sequence, identify the low-detail image before dropping it from the story. Send the best available scan and explain which relationships it preserves. We can discuss what is readable enough to paint without inventing missing faces or details.
For an Amsterdam project with separate captions, keep the text in a companion document and mark it as context only. That lets the painting quote cover the images you selected. If lettering belongs inside a canvas, include it explicitly with that image.
Foam’s call allowed installation views as additional material within its image limit or through a link. For our quote, send the actual source files too; a room view may not show enough detail to paint.
Send the authorized still and explain why that moment matters. Foam’s call allowed stills with an explanation and video link, but a painted interpretation needs its own agreement with your exhibition host.
For your Amsterdam sequence, show the revised middle image beside both unchanged references. Compare the direction of movement and the transitions between them before confirming the change. Tell us whether this replaces a reference or adds another painting; work already begun needs discussion.
Keep the project’s relationships
Send your selected images in order, with the intended pairs, dimensions and presentation date.
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