Curated by Michael Mack, the acclaimed auteur’s first major institutional photography exhibition maps six years of surreal film-set margins and solitary island meditations.
When celebrated cinematic provocateurs turn their gaze toward still photography, the resulting imagery strips away conventional script structures to expose raw, unfiltered atmospheric unease. Academy Award-nominated director Yorgos Lanthimos is officially bringing his debut major museum photography exhibition, Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs, to Amsterdam’s prestigious Foam museum.
Opening on February 12 and running through June 6, 2027, the expansive exhibition brings together nearly 180 photographs captured over the past six years. Curated by MACK founder Michael Mack, the show is divided into four distinct bodies of work. Three series document the eerie, liminal margins of Lanthimos’ recent film productions—Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken (from Poor Things), i shall sing these songs beautifully (from Kinds of Kindness), and VISCIN (from Bugonia)—capturing set rubble, lighting rigs, and raw character studies on the periphery of the frame. The fourth series, titled no word for blue, shifts inward through quiet, black-and-white meditations shot during solitary walks across Athens and remote Greek islands.
