Foam Paul Huf Award 2017
On 16 March 2017 the winner of this year’s Foam Paul Huf Award, the international photography award for young artists, will be announced.

The international jury will meet in Amsterdam on 15 and 16 March to choose a winner from portfolios submitted by one hundred photographers nominated from around the world. The prize is awarded annually by Foam to an international photographic talent under the age of 35 and consists of €20,000 and an exhibition at Foam. 

The Paul Huf Award 2017 winner was revealed to be Romain Mader. 

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The Foam Paul Huf Award is being organised for the eleventh time. The list of former winners is quite impressive. In 2016 the jury chose Daisuke Yokota (Japan) as the tenth winner of the prize, in recognition of his complex, sophisticated practice. On the evening of the announcement of the winner of 2017, Yokota’s exhibition Matter will be officially opened by Lucy Conticello (chair of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2017 and member of the jury in 2016).

2017 JURY

  • Lucy Conticello (chair, director of photography M Le Magazine du Monde, France)
  • Gregory Barker (publisher, STANLEY/BARKER, London, United Kingdom)
  • Teju Cole (writer, photographer and photo critic The New York Times Magazine, United States)
  • Shi Hantao (research director of Shanghai Project, China)
  • Maddalena Scarzella (gallery manager Galleria Carla Sozzani, Italy)

Jury Foam Paul Huf Award 2017 © Tessa Bosma / thefoofaraw.com 

PREVIOUS WINNERS
2007: Taryn Simon, Mikhael Subotzky 
2008: Pieter Hugo 
2009: Léonie Hampton-Purchas 
2010: Alexander Gronsky 
2011: Raphaël Dallaporta
2012: Alex Prager 
2013: Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs 
2014: Daniel Gordon 
2015: Momo Okabe 
2016: Daisuke Yokota

NOMINATION PROCESS
To produce an internationally representative selection Foam approached around twenty nominators in various parts of the world. These nominators, specialists and experts in the field of photography, were each asked to select a number of talented photographers under the age of 35 in their own region. 
The award can be presented for any type of photography: from documentary or applied photography, to journalistic or independent work. The winner’s work must exhibit a clear visual language and distinguish itself in both form and content.

The Foam Paul Huf Award came about as a result of the special relationship Foam had with Dutch photographer Paul Huf (1924-2002). Paul Huf was known for his innovative photographic technique and was personally involved in the establishment of Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam in 2001.

Foam is sponsored by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, the City of Amsterdam and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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Foam Paul Huf Award 2017