Foam presents a major exhibition of photographs by award-winning artist Yorgos Lanthimos, including a new body of work made in his native Greece. Lanthimos is an internationally renowned director, producer and screenwriter, nominated for six Academy Awards, as well as the winner of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, the Jury Prize at Cannes, and the Golden Lion at Venice.

Photography has long been part of Lanthimos’ artistic practice, and this major museum exhibition brings together four series, made over the past six years, offering new perspectives on this unique visionary. The exhibition will include three photographic series born from the spaces of Lanthimos’ cinema — made on the fringes of film locations in New Orleans, Atlanta and Henley-on-Thames, and in the recreated cities built as sets on soundstages in Budapest. Many of the photographs appear in his photobooks: Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken (2024), made during the filming of Poor Things (2023); i shall sing these songs beautifully (2024), made alongside Kinds of Kindness (2024); and VISCIN (2026), a series of photographs made on the set of Bugonia (2025).

The fourth body of work is an ongoing series of personal photographs made in his native Greece. Titled no word for blue and compiled during solitary walks around the edges of the city of Athens and on visits to Greek islands, Lanthimos brings a quiet, meditative eye to focus on the quotidian and mundane, harnessing the medium’s capacity for abstraction and transformation.

Michael Mack, curator of the exhibition, adds: “The ongoing series of black-and-white works made in Greece away from his filmmaking practice marks a new departure, a turning inwards to a known landscape. Emerging within a long tradition of photography applied to document the man-altered landscape, it also reflects an era of self-reflection and of his advanced progress in developing his own language in photography.”

About the artist

Yorgos Lanthimos is an internationally renowned, six-time Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter, as well as the winner of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, the Jury Prize at Cannes, and the Golden Lion at Venice. Lanthimos’ acclaimed filmography includes Kinetta (2005), Dogtooth (2009), Alps (2011), The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), Kinds of Kindness (2024) and Bugonia (2025).

Born in Athens, Greece, Lanthimos began his career directing dance theater films, in addition to TV commercials, music videos, short films, and theater plays. Outside of filmmaking, Lanthimos is an accomplished photographer, having photographed a number of editorials and fashion brand campaigns, and has published three photography books: Dear God, the Parthenon is still broken (VOID), i shall sing these songs beautifully (MACK), and VISCIN (MACK). no word for blue will be published in September 2027. 

Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs will be on view from 12 February to 6 June 2027 at Foam.

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