What happens when an archive preserves a building but erases the children who lived in it? When a flyer in a drawer leads to 360 unseen photographs that rewrite a history? When a young artist’s image of an Indonesian family migration ends up on a funeral card — because it captured something nothing else could?

At FOTODOK, we have always believed that photographers are the antennae of society. In this session, Femke introduces four artists from FOTODOK’s talent programs whose practices centre on a question that feels more urgent than ever: what does it mean to work responsibly with images that are not your own? Rafael Roncato re-edits colonial paintings from the Mauritshuis. Maite Vanhellemont excavates her Dutch-Indonesian family silence through ritual. Tim Ross inherits his German grandfather’s wartime negatives and refuses to look away. Sarah-Rose Antoun works with vernacular archives and oral history to hold what institutions never preserved. Not a lecture, but a conversation — about consent, counter-archiving, and why the deliberate destruction of images and memory is not history. It is happening now.