 anniversary, this landmark issue of Foam Magazine reflects on the museum’s legacy and the role of the photographic medium in society through the question: 

what makes an image stand the test of time

? With a proud number of 92 contributors, the artists and writers featured in this issue offer a starting point for conversation and contemplation on the potential of images today, and a projection of those we wish to see tomorrow.

Apple on Digital Sky II

Whats ours

A Glint of Possibility 2022

Foam Magazine #67: The Test of Time

#67: The Test of Time

MISSING MIRROR — Photography Through the Lens of AI

 is a multidimensional project hosted by Foam, combining an exhibition, digital platform, and magazine. Together we look at the growing overlaps between art, technology, and society, exploring how the recent advancements in AI impact our relationship with the image, ourselves, and our perception of reality. How do we form a truthful image of the world when credibility is questioned? And vice versa, how do we recognise ourselves in the images around us?

Foam Magazine #66: MISSING MIRROR – Photography Through the Lens of AI

#66: MISSING MIRROR

Aaryan Sinha

Akshay Mahajan

Amin Yousefi

Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein

André Ramos-Woodard

Cansu Yıldıran

Cristóbal Ascencio

Eleonora Agostini

Florian Braakman

Issam Larkat

Jaclyn Wright

Marisol Mendez

MAryam Touzani

Rehab Eldalil

Ricardo Nagaoka

Sander Coers

Sheung Yiu

Shwe Wutt Hmon

Thero Makepe

Xin Li

The Foam Magazine Talent 2024-2025 Issue brings together 20 innovative voices in photography from across the world. The selected artists create thoughtful reflections of our times: some allow us to see the world as it was through its archives, others bear witness to today’s sociopolitical affairs and some step into the future by inviting new technologies into their practice. Are we at a crossroads of the medium? In any case, change is inevitable.

Foam Magazine #65: Talent

#65: Talent

EXTREMES — The Environmental Issue looks at the complexities of today’s human-nature relationship through two different lenses. One half focuses on abundance and the other half, featured on the flip side of the magazine, on scarcity. Industrialisation, overpopulation, consumerism v scarcity, inequality, and the destruction of vital habitats: we address the divergences of the Anthropocene and how photography exposes them. We invite you to delve into this issue from both extremities, as a whole, while acknowledging that everything is interconnected.

Foam Magazine #64 Extremes - The Environmental Issue. Cover: Abundance, 2023

All images from the series Theatre of Authenticity

All images from the series Waste Identity: Passport for Plastics & Bola Bola Living

All images from the series Master Rock

All images from the series The Eyes of Earth

Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES

#64: Extremes

Food is not only a basic need, it is deeply intertwined with the majority of aspects in our lives as individual and communities. This issue of Foam Magazine is a journey through food and thanks to food, it is a journey in flavours and conversations — ultimately, and as usual for us, an issue that offers food for thought about the ways us humans stand in relation with the world.

Foam Magazine #63: FOOD

#63: Food

 – the transnational issue explore how identity intersects and conflicts with nationalism and the idea of nation-state within the European context. This issue constitutes our proud contribution to a challenging and timely project co-organised by The Racial Imaginary Institute, the CUNY Graduate Center and The Poetry Project, titled 

On Nationalism: The Fragility and the Possibility of ‘We’

Foam Magazine #62: M/OTHERLANDS

#62: M/otherlands

Marwan Bassiouni

Myriam Boulos

Olgaç Bozalp

Laura Chen

Kata Geibl

Lina Geoushy

Marvel Harris

Alexandra Rose Howland

Ange-Frédéric Koffi

Czar Kristoff

Yushi Li

Carla Liesching

Seif Kousmate

Pavo Marinović

Diego Moreno

Donja Nasseri

Linn Phyllis Seeger

Ritsch Sisters

Donavon Smallwood

The 20 fascinating artists selected for our 2022 edition of Foam Magazine’s Talent Issue look closely at both the world around us, and the one within — without shying away from discomfort or pain. Rather, they use the photographic medium to respond to, digest and navigate a world that continues to present new challenges and problematic structures.

Climate change, political conflict, discrimination, displacement, and social justice issues: the works address the pressing problems of our times and remind us that photography has the capability to capture the unspeakable. This year, the submission numbers — which have steadily increased each year — reached a record high of 1938 submissions from 85 different countries. We are proud to present a selection that offers as much food for thought as beauty and innovation for the medium.

Foam Magazine #61: Talent

#61: Talent

From art, literature and media to academia and internet culture, the visual and the written language have crossed paths many a time, creating a genre of their own. Our interest lies in the current creation and consumption of images and text, which is why the following contributions look closely at current crossroads and intersections of the two. What meanings and stories can one medium give or take from the other? And how can they influence our thinking or the way we perceive and navigate a world of fact and fiction.

Foam Magazine #60: GLYPHS

#60: Glyphs

Archives are all around us: in the form of family albums, or the community, city and national archives. We tend to perceive them as places and spaces where memories and evidence of histories are kept, preserved, indexed and certified; as repositories of traces, and treasure coves of relics and narratives. However, they are also very complicated entities, as the construction of archives all too easily lends itself to the curation, staging, erasure and manipulation of histories in ‘the public eye’. The new issue of Foam Magazine focuses on the archive as subject and looks at contemporary ways of engaging with archival images, and their remediation as a form of activation and critical analysis. The relationship between photography and the archive is a symbiotic one, but also an inherently problematic one, which is why the questions addressed in this magazine relate to its construction, and place decolonial approaches at the centre of the conversation.

Foam Magazine #59: HISTORIES

#59: Histories

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