During this masterclass, two experts, Freek Kuin and Corinne Noordenbos, will elaborate on the topic of collecting photobooks.

In addition to collecting photo prints, collecting photobooks is a great way to engage in photography and build a valuable collection. First editions, last or signed copies, special editions with photo prints - these are all books that can be of great value. Two speakers will be elaborate on this topic during the masterclass on Wednesday 19 June.
Freek Kuin, photobook-maker and creative director at publisher Rob Stolk, will kick-off the evening drawing from his extensive experience publishing photobooks. He will talk about a number of his prize-winning publications and about the creative process. From concept to design, and all the ingredients in between that make a good photobook.
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After a short break, Corinne Noordenbos, an important collector of photo albums, will take over. As a photographer and former head of the Photography Department of the KABK in The Hague, she has experience with the photobook in various ways. Her former students include Viviane Sassen and Rob Hornstra, both also known for their successful photobooks.
This is the last masterclass from the Collecting Photography series. The series, which started with a class on printing techniques and the conservation of photographs, followed by sessions on purchasing and framing editions, is open to anyone with an interest in collecting photography.
Foam Editions is supported with products of Philips Smart All-in-One monitors.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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Masterclass on Photobooks

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From the series Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth

What is the relationship between the photographer and the one that is photographed? In an attempt to answer this question, Amin Yousefi turned to photobooks, documenting the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 in his home-country. Zooming in on archival images of large demonstrations, he looked for protestors who locked eyes with the camera. 

Anonymous faces stare into the photographer’s lens, clearly showing awareness of being captured, inviting the viewer to look. Interestingly, the photographer at the time was most likely 

 aware of the returning gazes—due to the size of the crowds and the limitations of a 35mm camera viewfinder. In this case, Yousefi argues, it seems that the photographed is in control of the image, rather than the photographer, as one might assume. 

With the help of a magnifying glass, he rephotographed each of them—connecting himself with these individuals across time and space and isolating them into a newly formed crowd. Consisting of fifty portraits, 

Eyes Dazzle as they Search for the Truth 

examines how our knowledge about the past is formed through archival images. By turning his camera to those who looked back, Yousefi tries to understand the impact of one of the most influential events in Iranian contemporary history.

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La république, 2006 by Mohamed Bourouissa. Galerie Kamel Mennour, Krinzinger Gallery, Blum & Poe Gallery

Test of Time: Taous Dahmani

Depredations, from the photobook Radiations of War, 2025, by Yana Kononova. Courtesy the artist.

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Created by Bruno Zhu in 2015. The artwork is a digital print on a PVC sticker in a phonebook and displayed at 29.7 x 46 cm.

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, photographer Bruno Zhu references the well-known book from Japanese literature by the same name, completed in the year 1002 and containing the personal reflections of a lady-in-waiting at the Japanese imperial court. The term later came to stand for a whole genre of diary-like texts. 

 shows a specific page from Zhu’s 'Pillow Book', where he has pasted photographs of pillows into a telephone directory. This gives the work an absurdist character. The two-dimensional pillow on the paper pages forms a stark contrast with the soft feeling of a real pillow. The work contrasts visual motifs from the personal sphere with the public sphere. In his practice, Zhu playfully explores his fascination for photography as an ambivalent symbol of surface and object, representation and appropriation. 

Resting with Pearl Pillow, 2015 from the series Pillowbooks, 2015

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Each of the episodes welcomes a guest speaker that will be in conversation with Elisa Medde, Editor in Chief of Foam Magazine. Paris Photo will be running from the 10th until the 13th of November. The latest Foam Magazine called M/OTHERLANDS: The Transnational Issue can be found in the book section.

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. The 20 participating photographers address the pressing problems of our times. Together, they explore and extend the boundaries of what photography is today.   

As a diverse group of artists, each of them presents their own visual language. Through their works, they critically look at the world around us. They use the photographic medium to question collective affairs and ongoing issues happening in the world. At the same time, they explore how these issues have an impact on a personal level, moving between a local, historical, symbolic, emotional and bodily perspective. 

This group of artists uses a wide range of photographic genres to tell their stories. With portraiture and documentary photography, digital created images and archival material, the talents create a space for the viewer to sit with situations and current events, to reflect and respond to.   

Complementing the physical experience at Foam, this digital exhibition offers a deeper look at the Talents and their works. What goes on behind the surface? What is the inspiration? What techniques are used? This exhibition combines artistic context with educational perspectives. Read, see, and hear more about the themes and topics and explore, engage, and interact with the works! 

 are: 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, Ghazaleh Rezaei, Linn Phyllis Seeger, Ritsch Sisters, Donavon Smallwood.

Talent issue of Foam Magazine are supported by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation.

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

In 2022 Foam receives additional support from the Mondriaan Fund and receives a contribution through the Mondriaan Fund from the Ministerie van OCW.

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The momentary monument 'To Destroy Is To Build' is not only a web-to-print project but web-to-print-to-monument-to-publication-to... It leaks and flows like new media, like the flood, like the architecture of future society.

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Tell the Trees to Smile

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I remember Andrea's tears while we were walking towards his destroyed house that he was seeing for the first time since the explosion.

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rushed to the corridors to hide which was exactly our moves and practice during the Lebanese civil war when the bombing would start.”

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Michel lost
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When he wants to listen to music, he puts the radio against his ear.

On August 4, Walid was at home with me. He was on this same balcony when the explosion happened. (...) (I cried in his room and in his arms every day for a few months after the explosion.)

When I gave her this tiny flower, my grandmother told me “Dis aux arbres de sourire”, which means tell the trees to smile.

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