Foam Magazine issue #33 / Trip
Press release Foam Magazine, Amsterdam, 10
December 2012
Foam Magazine announces the release of
Foam Magazine #33/ Trip. This issue will be officially
launched on 20th December in &Foam and will be available in
shops from the end of December 2012.
Trip
Foam Magazine #33/Trip is all about travel, about the
sense of being in transit, in a place or in a dimension where
things are different from the way they are at home, or in real
life. Foam Magazine goes beyond a literal interpretation of the
theme, as travel is ultimately more a mental state than a physical
effort. The word Trip is therefore the word that best
describes the theme of this issue: from road trip to mental trip.
Foam Magazine brings the subject alive in eight quite different
portfolios, taking our readers on eight diverse journeys, ranging
from the fantastical to the concrete, from the conceptual to the
extremely stylized. Trip shows the work of: Nils
Strindberg, Todd Hido, Jan Hoek, Cristina De Middel, Anne Sophie
Merryman, Erwin Olaf, Ricardo Cases, Thomas Mailaender and an
extensive interview of Roma Publications.
We travel with ninetheenth-century photographer
Nils Strindberg on a fatal polar expedition, pictures of which have
survived almost by a miracle. Todd Hido stays closer to home,
photographing muddy country roads in the west of the United States
through the wet windscreen of his car. Young Dutch photographer Jan
Hoek travelled to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and made
portraits of the many mentally ill people who live on the streets
there. Bizarre and surrealistic in equal measure is the project by
Cristina De Middel, just shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse
Photography Prize 2013, about The Afronauts - spacemen in the heart
of Africa. And that the world contains many remarkable and often
ambiguous places is clear from the weird and wonderful selection of
picture postcards taken from the collection of the equally
mysterious Mrs. Merryman.
Paradise by Erwin Olaf is a hallucinatory trip,
with nightmarish qualities, through a fantastical world full of
hedonistic partygoers. No less hallucinatory are the painted
pigeons that Ricaro Cases came across in Spain and recorded in all
their colourful absurdity. Then there are the owners of the
piled-high cars that Thomas Mailaender photographed as drily
humorous typologies of migration and mobility. Together these
portfolios offer an enthralling trip through the landscape of
contemporary photography.
Foam Magazine is also very proud to present in
this issue of the Magazine an extensive interview of Roma
Publications. Founded in 1998 by graphic designer Roger Willems and
artist Mark Manders, they quickly established themselves as one of
the best independent art publishers in the Netherlands.
Have a good trip!
For any additional information, including
interview requests with the photographers or images, please contact
the communication department of Foam Magazine: magazine@foam.org |
T:+31 20 462 20 62 | Foam Magazine is a quarterly international
photography magazine, published by Foam Amsterdam and branding
agency Vandejong | Foam Magazine is sponsored by Igepa Netherlands
BV, Lecturis Printing Company, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and
Hexspoor Group. Foam Magazine | ISBN 9789070516284| Suggested price
€19,50 | 216 pages