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Photographer Lucas Foglia’s latest body of work is titled ‘Constant Bloom’. It traces the world’s longest butterfly migration. Each year, Painted Lady butterflies travel between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming flowers. They have followed this route for millions of years.

Today, with climate change altering when and where wildflowers bloom, Painted Ladies rely on flowers in our parks, farms, and gardens. As Foglia followed the butterflies from Kenya to Norway, he also met people experiencing unseasonal droughts, floods, or freezes. Many were refugees travelling to Europe along the same route as the Painted Ladies. In ‘Constant Bloom’, the longest butterfly migration becomes a metaphor for human connections across international borders.

With texts in English, French, and Arabic, the book to the series, published by Nazraeli Press, gracefully explores the world and the urgent global issues of our time. Fotomuseum Den Haag presents the work in a large museum exhibition from May to October 2025.

Lucas Foglia (*1983, USA) is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. He makes photographic prints that are collected and exhibited internationally at institutions including the de Young Museum, Fotomuseum Den Haag, International Centre of Photography, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

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Colour and form, light and shadow – in the abstract compositions of the series ‘Plein Soleil’, Jessica Backhaus reduces her images to the four basic elements of photography. As in her previous project ‘Cut Outs’, the artist arranges coloured papers of different textures and grammages in intense, summery sunlight. Individual sheets are folded or curved, creating hard shadows and vibrant colour fields that the camera forms into poetic arrangements. In her work, Backhaus explores the photographic possibilities of abstraction, blurring the lines between documentary photography and intuitive, lyrical colour figuration.

Jessica Backhaus (*1970, Cuxhaven, Germany) is regarded as one of the most important voices in contemporary photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Kunsthalle, Erfurt, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Centre de la Photographie Genève, and the Centre de la Photographie in Mougins. The publication of ‘Cut Outs’ (2021) was nominated for both the Arles Book Award and the Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award. The book for the new series ‘Plein Soleil’ is published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, in spring 2024. Jessica Backhaus lives and works in Berlin.

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