From the series Heimat (in Quarantine)

From the series Turunç

We're confronted with how migration has bought people together, and yet at times how it has not. Though it’s often tarnished by negative speculation, it is one of the most powerful forces that can foster change, progress and create a space for stories untold. 

Installation of Now You See Me Moria at Foam

Podcast: Now You See Me Moria

Daniel Castro Garcia - I Peri N'Tera | Foam Talent 2021

Interview with Daniel Castro Garcia on I Peri N'Tera

From the series Encounter

Podcast: Silvia Rosi

Still from Zooming In: On Belonging

Zooming In: On Belonging

On Belonging with Foam Talents Delali Ayivi and Solène Gün

Belonging

In the online series Zooming In, we bring together the Foam Talents of 2021. Through a series of online Zoom talks, we aim to learn more about the different projects and how they connect to each other.

This Summer, we dive deeper into Foam Talent 2021 by pairing up the selected artists in an online Zoom conversation. Each of the three events will be divided into two parts. The first part introduces the artists and their projects, focussing on their approach and motivation. After this, we take a closer look at the topics connecting the artists' work, aiming to contextualize their series within the photography field as well as current discourses in society. Each conversation will feature special guests to share their unique perspectives and reflections.
EPISODE 3: ON BELONGING Foam Talents:&nbsp;Delali Ayivi, Sol&egrave;ne G&uuml;n Special guest:&nbsp;Erika Larsson Moderation&nbsp;by: Hinde Haest Date: 25 Augustus 2021, 18:30 - 20.00 hrs CET
<iframe width="560" height="314" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FFoamAmsterdam%2Fvideos%2F2720646341568093%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>In a world that is more splintered than ever, notions of place and belonging have gained unprecedented relevance. Photographers Delali Ayivi and Solene G&uuml;n reflect on the concept of home, which can be both a shelter and a prison, especially in times of quarantine. Placing the focus on topics such as identity, place, marginalisation and constructions of the self, they question what it means (not) to belong. Both do so from the perspective of their personal family histories of migration.
Special guest Erika Larsson&nbsp;has a postdoc position at Valand Academy&nbsp;in Gothenburg, together with the Hasselblad Foundation, researching contemporary photographers&rsquo; and artist&rsquo;s engagements with the interwar period. She also lectures on photography theory and globalisation in relation to visual culture.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x744/5feeb7ef23/595_delali.jpeg" alt="" width="595" height="744" />Image from the series Heimat (in Quarantine) &copy; Delali Ayivi, courtesy of the artist.
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<li>21 June:&nbsp;Intimacy in Times of Social Distancing&nbsp;with&nbsp;Ana Vallejo, Leonard Suryajaya and Gem Fletcher. -&gt;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q79jOhTZz48">Watch here</a></li>
<li>21 July:&nbsp;Photography, Performance and the Mythical&nbsp;with Lisandro Suriel, Plantation and&nbsp;Angela N. Carroll. -&gt;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNZpxY24sJg&amp;t=17s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watch here</a></li>
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The Foam Talent Programme and the annual Talent issue of Foam Magazine are supported by&nbsp;the Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation and the VandenEnde Foundation.
Foam Magazine is sponsored by Igepa Netherlands BV, supplier of excellent paper.
Foam is supported by the VriendenLoterij, Foam Members, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, the VandenEnde Foundation and the City of Amsterdam.
In 2021 Foam receives additional support from the Mondriaan Fund and Kickstart Cultuurfonds.

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Still from Northern Winds with Jonathas de Andrade - Ammodo Docs

With my art projects, I approach people that historically experience oppression in many different ways. But still, their culture, their tradition, their way of keeping knowledge alive: they represent resistance in many ways.,

Still from the documentary Northern Winds with Jonathas de Andrade

Northern Winds: Artist Jonathas de Andrade’ Fascination with Jangadeiros | Ammodo Docs

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Northern Winds: Jonathas de Andrade’ Fascination with Jangadeiros

Mooncake, Foam Café, Amsterdam

Spread from Chinees-Indisch Stickeralbum

Cahier for Benjamin Li's In Search of Perfect Orange - Chinese Version

Chinese version

Liz Johnson Artur - of life of love of sex of movement of hope, 2021

In Search of Perfect Orange. About the work of Benjamin Li

Aby Fulani

Aspromonte - Guilty Grounds, 2023

The barrel – Guilty Grounds, 2023

Silent Chronicles. About the work of Steffi Reimers

Page 144-145 in Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES.

Page 138-139 in Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES

Page 142-143 in Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES

Presenting Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES—The Environmental Issue

Time to change perspective.

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

On Transience – The Ebb & The Flow

Where Colours Breathe, June 21, 2024 from the series Heavenly Bodies by Temiloluwa Johnson. Courtesy of the artist

On Our Radar: Temiloluwa Johnson

 by Fidelio Faustino in collaboration with 

. This exhibition is a public space intervention on the GVB ferry and serves as a contemporary response to the historical exhibition 

‘Tapsei’ is a word from Sranantongo that literally means ‘upwards’. In the context of Suriname’s interior, it also refers to a way of orienting oneself, navigation through landscape, memory, and community. In everyday usage, ‘tapsei’ is also commonly used as a term for the Surinamese interior itself.

Untitled, out of the series Tapsei, 2025

Central Station, Ferry 50

Vanety, from the series Tapsei, 2025

Joel, from the series Tapsei, 2025

Kaaja Paati, from the series Tapsei, 2025

Fidelio Faustino - Tapsei

In search for a sense of belonging, Rehab Eldalil traced back her family roots to the Bedouin community of South Sinai, Egypt. This confirmed a spiritual connection she long felt towards the region and sent her on a ten-year long collaboration with the locals of St. Catherine, guiding herself through the lands of her ancestors. 

The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken (

شوق الغريب للي تقطّع سبيله)

 Rehab closely participates with community members during this longstanding encounter, weaving together photographs with sound, video, and local Bedouin traditions of poetry, embroidery and plant medicines in a truly collaborative effort. 

The works emphasise the strong connection of the close-knit Bedouin community to their land, as its protective keeper. At the same time, the project reveals the hardships and constant struggle against displacement, violence, and governmental power, to which the community continues to be subjected. Recent plans for urban developments in the region stress the urgency of the project, becoming a testament of and protest to protect the natural state of the lands and its indigenous keepers. 

Oh Valley

From the series The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

From the series The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

From the project The Longing of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

Allaseeq (The Sticker)

From the Series The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

Alrabel (Mountain Tea)

From the series The Longing of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken

Rehab Eldalil

selected artists

Welcome to Talent 2024-2025 – the digital exhibition.

Here, Foam proudly presents 20 selected Talents in their very own online universe. Out of a dazzling 2,480 submissions, this final curation of exceptional work defines the new horizons of the medium of photography, thematically and technically. Highlighting the connections, this interactive network brings all Talents together and maps out their distinct artistic viewpoints.

Spanning across the globe, the stories told by these artists reflect a universal yearning for belonging—a profound desire to anchor, to establish a connection with the past and carve out a sense of place. A driving force underpinning their work is the quest to trace heritage, untangle family lines, and explore personal identity.

Acknowledging the constructed nature of history, memory, or even their own thoughts, these artists boldly confront existing narratives. They embark on a journey of unlearning, challenging established stories, and turn to the expansive nature of photography to build new understandings and narratives, resonating more authentically with their lived experiences.

Noteworthy in their approach is the harmonious balance between tradition and innovation. The artists seamlessly blend traditional photographic techniques with cutting-edge developments, including the much-discussed realm of artificial intelligence, and other mediums such as moving image, embroidery and music. 

Select one of the filters to zoom in on these different techniques and mediums.

This digital exhibition presents the work in a truly multi-medial way, inviting you to 

about Foam Talent Digital

artists shaping the future of photography

Foam is supported by the VriendenLoterij, Foam Members, the VandenEnde Foundation and the City of Amsterdam.

The Foam Talent programme and the annual Talent Issue of Foam Magazine are supported by:

Overview

Soon you will be visiting Foam, the Photography Museum in Amsterdam. To ensure a pleasant experience for you, other visitors, and our colleagues, we kindly ask you to adhere to the following regulations. 

We look forward to seeing you and hope you enjoy Foam!

Free Guided Tour, 2022

Welcome regulations at Foam

Visitor Rules & Regulations

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, 2023

For more information and visual material please contact the Press Office of Foam via pressoffice@foam.org.

Note to editors

Foam receives positive response AFK 

Hibo and Hani from Somalia. Photo taken in Kenya, 2019

Foam x KLABU: Strength Away From Home

After Anahit, 2023

Podcast

Image from the series After Anahit, 2023

Foam Talks about an Armenian statue, an emptied lake, and a fig tree with Ece Gökalp and Larissa Araz

From the Archive: Golden Boy by Kwabena Appiah-nti

For more information and visual material, please get in touch with the Foam press office via pressoffice@foam.org.

Foam 3h: Benjamin Li - In Search of Perfect Orange

Foam 3h: ShuShu Sieberns

How does a new generation of image-makers from Turkey use photography to reflect on the world around them? 

As part of the multi-year project Kısmet, this online group exhibition gives a snapshot of the emerging community of contemporary image-makers from Turkey. Kısmet is inspired by longstanding cultural, diplomatic and economic ties between Turkey and the Netherlands and delves into the diverse and intricate facets of Turkish visual culture, as seen through the lens of different generations of image-makers. Here, we present the work of four talented visual artists, born after 1990, whose voices will shape the vast visual landscape in Turkey, and beyond, in the upcoming years. 

Showing a diverse range of visual styles, what connects these four artists is the profound personal investment they put in their work. Their photography holds a personal dimension that goes beyond ‘merely’ having an affinity for the chosen subject matter. Rather, their practice and the resulting bodies of work reveal a deep connection to their perception of the world around them. What stands out are the distinct translations of their inner worlds, whether this is in the methodology, subject matter or aesthetics. 

For Oğulcan Arslan, the personal comes forward not only through the story he documents, but also through photographic techniques he uses. In 

, he intimately captures a friendship by adjusting light, exposure and composition to the emotions he experiences himself or from his friend. 

Alp Peker finds solace in their photographic practice to voice their protest against unspoken issues and social taboos they experience on a daily basis. Their photographs, shown here under the title 

, are an ode to the community Alp lives in, their goals, struggles, and weirdnesses.  

Kıvılcım S. Güngörün defines her work as autobiographical fiction. The collages in 

are a direct translation of her inner workings: intuitive visual responses to questions that pop into her mind, or new questions that arise during the process.  

, Cansu Yıldıran studies the power dynamics and gender inequality that they encountered in their ancestral village in Northern Turkey. Inspired by the personal stories of the women of their family, Cansu creates emotional atmospheres that investigate their own sense of identity, of belonging and the continuous search for a safe space.

Kismet: online exhibition intro

How to

Oğulcan Arslan 

From the series All the Rivers Flow In the Nuthouse

               

Alp Peker

Untitled

From the series Amel Defteri: a notebook of deeds

From the series Amel defteri: A Notebook of Deeds

             

Kıvılcım S. Güngörün 

From the series I lab yu

From the series I Lab Yu

“My day becomes my laboratory, and I lab back.” 

                          

Cansu Yıldıran 

From the series The Dispossessed

      

The Golden Horn, Istanbul

Dad and his Indian Friends, April 2017

Kısmet: New Perspectives. Four Contemporary Image-makers from Turkey

From the archive: Asia Bistro by Hiền Hoàng

From the Archive: Untitled by Mohamad Abdouni

At Foam, we believe that photography is a powerful tool for young people to express themselves. That's why fostering the next generation of photographers is at the heart of our museum's mission. Foam has partnered with Meervaart Studio over the past six years to create beautiful photography workshops for talented young people in Amsterdam, led by experienced photographers from Foam's extensive network. 

We're proud to celebrate this fruitful collaboration with a hybrid presentation in the project space of the museum and on Foam’s digital platform. This special showcase is an opportunity to learn more about the work of five young makers who have been part of our many educational photography projects over the years. These programmes have given them the tools and guidance to capture their visions of the world around them. 

As you explore the exhibition, you'll be struck by the creativity and originality of these young photographers. Each project highlights the value of providing young people with a platform to share their voices. Their work will inspire and encourage others to see the world in new and exciting ways. 

Join us in celebrating the work of this generation of young Amsterdam creatives.  

FINN // at the table god unhinged his ribs

Intro

Kyara 
Bhiekharie 

Rhiannon

I Want to Break Free

Karma Chameleon

Kyara Bhiekarie over haar werk 'Mijn moeder, de ZZP-er'

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham

Fashion

about the artist

Dina
Bousbaa

Growing pains. Chefchaouen 2017

The same route as yesterday. Tangiers 2017

Sea of opportunities. Assilah 2017

Reaching out. Amsterdam 2016

May our future be as bright. Assilah 2017

Thoughts about tomorrow. Assilah 2017

Dina Bousbaa over haar werk 'Backbone'

Iyanla 
Etnel

Pimba Doti

Bere tan bere

Teri Den

Iyanla Etnel over haar werk 'Te Yu No Sabi Owru Bun, Yu No Kan Sabi Nyun Bun'

"In the evening we put a curtain in front of the mirror because someone can harm you through the mirror."

Te Neti Doro

Trowé Gi Gron' Mama

Etnel explores the relationship between her and her late aunt. They are connected by the same aching feet, but out of shame within the family, this is not spoken about.  

Deng Di Du Mi

Yasemin 
Demirözcan 

"As a child of the diaspora, I've always felt a distance between myself and my ancestral land, constantly questioning the concept of home."

Fields of Solace

"Life here is simple and far from the hustle and bustle of the city, where they live the rest of the year."

Directing The Flock

Canım Dedem

Yasemin Demirözcan over haar werk 'Strangely Familiar'

Flying Shoe

Reloading Memories

"My uncle playing with his air rifle in front of my grandparents' house in Yeşildere. This is where my father spent the first ten years of his life."

A Shepherd’s Pride

Wheels of Legacy

"A Renault Toros (the Turkish-built version of the R12) navigating through a vast, open landscape, symbolizing solitude and the exploration of my identity."

Tal 
Ben Yakir 

FINN // came apart in my hands

BENNI // when i ate his ribs i became a man

BENNI // or maybe just ribs braided together at the table.

RORY // there was a table i sat & ate at until i was something.

RIBS

JOHN // you know when you become something it eats you?

RORY // there was a table i sat & ate at until i was something

Foam Talent Call 2023

Woman I from the series FLAT DEATH and other pictures, 2015

Foam Talent Network Brunch, 2022

Empowering the voices of Amsterdam’s youth through photography

From the Archive: MADRE / Padre by Valeria Posada Villada

Portretworkshop

About the workshop

Learning goals

Questions or special requests?

More for secondary education

Secundair Onderwijs - Workshop - Proud to be

Proud to be... Workshop

More for primary education

Primair Onderwijs - Workshop - Proud to be

Foam Foam produced this episode as part of a mini-series called Stories of Migration. In this series, we welcome three artists whose work evolves around questions of migration, identity and belonging. From their individual perspectives and personal histories, the artists reflect on ethnicity, place, marginalisation, memory and constructions of the self. 

belonging

On Belonging

Perspectives of migration.

Zooming In: On Belonging

Northern Winds: Jonathas de Andrade’s Fascination with Jangadeiros

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Silent Chronicles
About the work of Steffi Reimers

On Transience – Theme Text Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES–The Environmental Issue

Where Colours Breathe by Temiloluwa Johnson

Fidelio Faustino
Tapsei

Rehab Eldalil

Overview

Visitor Rules & Regulations

Foam receives positive response AFK

Foam x KLABU: Strength Away From Home

Foam Talks about an Armenian statue, an emptied lake, and a fig tree with Ece Gökalp and Larissa Araz

Golden Boy by Kwabena Appiah-nti

Foam 3h: Benjamin Li - In Search of Perfect Orange

Foam 3h: ShuShu Sieberns

Kısmet: New Perspectives. Four Contemporary Image-makers from Turkey

Asia Bistro by Hiền Hoàng

Untitled by Mohamad Abdouni

Empowering the voices of Amsterdam’s youth through photography

MADRE / Padre by Marisol Mendez

Proud to be...

Proud to be...

Stories of Migration with Silvia Rosi & Johanne Affricot

belonging

On Belonging

Perspectives of migration.

Zooming In: On Belonging

Northern Winds: Jonathas de Andrade’s Fascination with Jangadeiros

In Search of Perfect OrangeAbout the work of Benjamin Li

Silent ChroniclesAbout the work of Steffi Reimers

On Transience – Theme Text Foam Magazine #64: EXTREMES–The Environmental Issue

Where Colours Breathe by Temiloluwa Johnson

Fidelio Faustino Tapsei

Rehab Eldalil

Overview

Visitor Rules & Regulations

Foam receives positive response AFK

Foam x KLABU: Strength Away From Home

Foam Talks about an Armenian statue, an emptied lake, and a fig tree with Ece Gökalp and Larissa Araz

Golden Boy by Kwabena Appiah-nti

Foam 3h: Benjamin Li - In Search of Perfect Orange

Foam 3h: ShuShu Sieberns

Kısmet: New Perspectives. Four Contemporary Image-makers from Turkey

Asia Bistro by Hiền Hoàng

Untitled by Mohamad Abdouni

Empowering the voices of Amsterdam’s youth through photography

MADRE / Padre by Marisol Mendez

Proud to be...

Proud to be...

Stories of Migration with Silvia Rosi & Johanne Affricot

In Search of Perfect Orange
About the work of Benjamin Li

Silent Chronicles
About the work of Steffi Reimers

Fidelio Faustino
Tapsei