The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation announces the acquisition of work by Foam Talent 2024–2025 artist Aaryan Sinha. His series This Isn’t Divide and Conquer explores the enduring impact of the 1947 Partition of India through his family archive. This acquisition continues the Foundation’s long-standing support of Foam’s Talent Programme, through which one artist’s work is selected from each edition.
 

Foam Talent now highlights new developments and fresh work from previous Foam Talents. Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Foundation and Curator of the collection, speaks with artist Aaryan Sinha about the evolution of his project and the significance of this acquisition.

6 min readby Anne-Marie Beckmann

Foam Magazine’s Managing Editor Katy Hundertmark talks to iconic performance artist Marina Abramović about her relationship with photography and the efforts she has made to preserve her work through photography over the years. Where does the collaboration between performance and camera start, and where does it end?  

5 min readby Katy Hundertmark

As Amsterdam marks its 750th anniversary, Foam reflects on the people who quietly shape the city’s daily life. Through Mounir Raji’s lens, we turn our attention to the neighbourhoods, routines, and relationships that give Amsterdam its human heartbeat.

3 min readby Harriët Mbonjani

Mitchell’s visions of radical joy, utopian settings, and lush landscapes reclaim and reimagine the representation of Black bodies, pointing, as Berghout writes, towards more generative futures.

Foam Magazine’s latest issue, Test of Time, celebrates the image-makers whose work has resonated most powerfully throughout our 25-year history.

4 min readby Mirelva Berghout

In an expansive body of work that is at once personal, critical and deeply reflective of the multifaceted cultures of Andean territories, Mendez explores how traditional representations of gender archetypes in her native Bolivia shape attitudes toward gender today.

From the Archive highlights previous writings on photography from Foam Magazine to cast light on current topics and ongoing debates in the world of photography and beyond.

5 min readby Valeria Posada Villada

From the point of production to the places where rubbish is processed or dumped, Aàdesokan draws parallels between the economic and social forces that drive migration patterns and rubbish disposal.

From the Archive highlights previous writings on photography from Foam Magazine to cast light on current topics and ongoing debates in the world of photography and beyond.

3 min readby Aya Musa