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Presenting Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES—The Environmental Issue

Foam is proud to present the latest edition of Foam Magazine: EXTREMES—The Environmental Issue, which looks at the human relationship with the environment from two opposing, yet connected, perspectives: abundance and scarcity.

The presentation includes videos narrated by Foam Magazine managing editor Katy Hundertmark, who offers insights into selected portfolios and essays from both extremes.

About part I: Abundance

A concept usually associated with fulfilment, satisfaction, safety, and success, carrying within the promise of answering all our heart’s desires and providing for all earthly needs. It’s the epistemological land of milk and honey, where everything flows and continuously gets renewed, replenished, and updated. A utopia if you like, where dreams come true, and humans live in coexistence with nature.
–Quote from On Transience by Katy Hundertmark.

The videos featured in this presentation include portfolios from former Foam Talent Aàdesokan and Natacha de Mahieu, as well as an essay by Gem Fletcher.

All images from the series Waste Identity: Passport for Plastics & Bola Bola Living © Aàdesokan, courtesy of the artist and funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
All images from the series Theatre of Authenticity © Natacha de Mahieu, courtesy of the artist

About part II: Scarcity

Scarcity stands for emptiness, unproductiveness, or a shortage of resources and fertility. It is often used to describe landscapes that lack vegetation, growth, or abundance. Such a barren place is neither habitable nor able to host or nurture growth. I imagine a moon-like surface where every ounce of dust lies heavy and thick, maybe adorned with traces of life from a time gone by.
–Quote from On Transience by Katy Hundertmark.

The videos featured in this presentation include portfolios from Maria Fusco and Solmaz Daryani, as well as an essay by Wanda Nanibush.

All images from the series The Eyes of Earth © Solmaz Daryani, courtesy of the artist
All images from the series Master Rock © Maria Fusco, courtesy of the artist

New ways of visualising climate change in Foam Magazine

Not able to visit Foam? Dive deeper into the content of Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES—The Environmental Issue, learn more about the cover selection process and watch the videos online in this curated theme.

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Presenting Foam Magazine #64: Waste Identity: Passport for Plastics & Bola Bola Living by Aàdesokan © Foam. All images by Aàdesokan, courtesy of the artist and funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation

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Art and environment in
the Anthropocene

18 Nov at 18.00 hrs

Join us for a special night on Saturday 18 November connecting art and nature through music as we dig deeper into the current exhibition How to Love a Tree: Wild Encounters by Hira Nabi and the latest issue of Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES—The Environmental Issue. The talk is followed by a concert in which we invite the audience to meditate on our relationship with nature.

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A still from Wild Encounters, 2023 © Hira Nabi.

Foam Magazine has been awarded several prizes for both its high-grade graphic design and the quality of its content. Most recently, Foam Magazine was awarded Photography Magazine of the Year at the Lucie Awards 2017 and 2019.

Foam Magazine is an international photography magazine, published two times a year by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.

Foam is supported by the VriendenLoterij, Foam Members, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the VandenEnde Foundation and the Gemeente Amsterdam.

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Presenting Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES—The Environmental Issue