Arty Party: Photography Graduates 2025

At Melkweg Expo, photography is the driving force in the arts. This year, ARTY PARTY returns in the form of a group exhibition highlighting new talent in photography. From 13 September until 12 October 2025, Arty Party: Photography Graduates 2025 will take over Melkweg Expo with a selection of new work.

For this edition, we invited international scouts, art professionals from the photography and contemporary art world, to handpick each participating photographer from a pool of talented art graduates across the Netherlands. So if you didn’t make it to the graduation shows, no worries! Come and visit the ‘Photography Graduates 2025’ exhibition and discover fresh photographic work.

Meet this year's international team of scouts: 

Francesco Rombaldi - Yogurt Magazine
Francesco Rombaldi (b. 1981, Reggio Emilia) is a curator, editor, and art director with a background in advertising and design. He founded Track Magazine in 2007, later joining Rome’s 001 collective to produce fanzines and photography events. In 2016, he launched Yogurt Magazine, where he serves as Editor-in-Chief and Curator, publishing work by renowned photographers such as Alec Soth and Alba Zari. He also leads Yogurt’s publishing house and creative agency, co-founded the independent photography bookshop Paper Room in Rome, and directs Charta, Rome’s photobook festival.

Francesca Hummler - Der Greif
Francesca Hummler (b. 1997) is a German-American visual artist, researcher, and the Community Manager and Program Curator at Der Greif, the award-winning platform for contemporary photography. Based between London and San Diego, she holds degrees in Media Arts, Biochemistry (UC San Diego), and an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Her work explores identity, familial intimacy, and generational trauma through archives and self-portraiture, often drawing on photo-therapeutic practices. She has exhibited at Paris Photo, the Sprengel Museum, and the Crypt Gallery, and received awards including Carte Blanche Étudiants and the Vonovia Young Talent Award.

Lisanne van Happen  – The Eriskay Connection
Lisanne van Happen does the project development and editing for The Eriskay Connection.  A Dutch studio for book design and an independent publisher. They focus on contemporary storytelling at the intersection of photography, research and writing. In close collaboration with authors they make books as autonomous bodies of work.

Zineb Seghrouchni - DAR Cultural Agency
Zineb Seghrouchni is the founder of DAR. A Rotterdam-based cultural agency and platform representing some of the finest (emerging) contemporary talents in art, design, and architecture. DAR is built as a solid home, aiming to provide room for creative growth through cultural programming, thoughtful curation, and meaningful collaborations between talents, museums, brands, and communities.