12/09/2026
📷 Join the newest Dialogue Vintage Photography Festival for 2026
We are thrilled to announce that on Saturday 19 September, we’re bringing together collectors, photographers, dealers, curators and photography enthusiasts for a full day dedicated to vintage and vernacular photography.
🌐 Full programme & more information: https://www.dialoguevintagephotography.com/
Buy photos from €3 to €30.000 euros; visit our specially curated programme; listen to inspiring lectures; stroll past (and talk to) 30+ dealers, collectors and some of the greatest photographers (including Koos Breukel, Bert Teunissen, Gerard Wessel and Claude Vanheye); join a hands-on vintage photography workshop; have your portrait taken; and connect with professionals and amateurs alike - or just swing by for a cup of coffee!
The fair offers exhibitors and photographers — alongside a wonderful programme of lectures and collector's tables, exploring collecting, photobooks, photographic history and the stories behind iconic images. More details can be found on our website.
And that’s just the programme. Throughout the day there will also be demonstrations and workshops (including pinhole photography by Martijn van Oers, and photo-determination and restauration by Katrin Pietsch and Clara von Waldthausen).
12:15 — Collector’s Table: Freek Kuin
On a printer’s soul captured in 10 books — from 1989 to the present
Freek Kuin (drukkerij Robstolk) discusses ten of the best photobooks in his collection, moderated by Lotte Klösters (Foam).
13:00 — Lecture: Ruben Lundgren
On his experiences in China - Lundgren talks about buying vernacular photography.
13:15 — Collector’s Table: Josje Janse
On her own photo collection - Josje Janse shares her remarkable photography collection, in conversation with Lotte Klösters.
14:00 — Lecture: Willemijn van der Zwaan
The making of Eva Besnyö - A lecture by the Curator of Photography at Fotomuseum Den Haag on the life and work of Eva Besnyö.
14:15 — Collector’s Table: Ruben Lundgren
Chinese photobooks / Chinese Propaganda
Lundgren explores the history of Chinese propaganda photobooks.
15:00 — Lecture & panel discussion: Wim van Sinderen
Gerard Petrus Fieret — Raw Art on Paper
A presentation on the new book, followed by a panel discussion with Willem van Zoetendaal.
CEC Amsterdam
📅 19 September 2026
⏰ 11:00–16:30
🎟️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/dialogue-vintage-photography-amsterdam-2026-tickets-1993489130653?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Hope to see many of you there — and to spend a day talking, looking, collecting and discovering photography together.
