What’s it like to see, Bertan Selim?
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Bertan Selim is an Amsterdam based editor, curator and consultant in the arts, specialized in international grant-making in visual arts and photography. His work has centered on mentorship programmes in the Middle East and the Balkans. In 2014 he helped set up the Arab Documentary Photography Programme (ADPP). And since 2017 he regularly lectures at the photography department of the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague (KABK). Bertan currently works as head of programs at the Prince Claus Fund in Amsterdam and currently mentors about 12 artists from non-Western countries; additionally. In 2020 Bertan founded the VID Foundation for Photography to support photography in the Balkan region. He is a board member of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
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