Foam proudly presents the work of a new generation of artists in the group exhibition 

. 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.

The exhibition is made possible by Kleurgamma Fine-Art Photolab and Oschatz Visuelle Medien.

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.

The Feast Inside, from the series Paintings Dreams and Love

Graphic Foam Talent 2022

How to...

Czar Kristoff

Audio fragment for To Destroy Is To Build

from the series To Destroy is To Build

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.

from the series To Destroy Is To Build

Myriam Boulos

Audio fragment for Tell the Trees to Smile by Myriam Boulos

Tell the Trees to Smile

from the series Tell the Trees to Smile

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

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

Zeina
worked on a rescue mission with a Chile team for 3 days.
The Chile team thought that someone was stuck under the ruins of a building.
“During these
3 days, the hope of finding someone was controlling us.”

Michel lost
his hearing aid during the explosion.
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.

Marwan Bassiouni

Audio fragment for New Western Views by Marwan Bassiouni

from the series New Swiss Views

from the series New British Views

from the series New Dutch Views

Kata Geibl

from the series See Daylight

from the series Nothing New Under the Sun

Audio clip for Kata Geibl - There is Nothing New Under The Sun / See Daylight

from the series There Is Nothing New Under the Sun / See Daylight

Donja Nasseri

from the series Woman, who would be King

Audio clip for Donja Nasseri - Woman, who would be King

Alexandra Rose Howland

Audio clip for Alexandra Rose Howland - Leave and Let Us Go

from the series Leave and Let Us Go

Pavo Marinović

Audio clip for Pavo Marinovic - Marble Ass

Marble Ass

from the series Marble Ass

Talent Digital 2022

Maryam, 2020, Leave and Let Us Go

Twenty years ago 9/11 took place, leading the United States to announce its 'War on Terror' and involving Iraq in an ongoing conflict. This war was deemed as the first 'smartphone war' due to the introduction of the smartphone as an object of mass consumption in 2007. The widespread use of digital cameras enabled millions of users to capture the conflict from angles which had previously been out of sight. What formerly had been the domain of photojournalists and governmental agencies, became a limitless stream of images shared on the internet. This gave digital media a vital role in portraying the confrontation's countless layers.

Digital Layers of War - Alexandra Rose Howland & Wafaa Bilal

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Foam 3h: Alexandra Rose Howland Leave and Let Us Go

Digital Layers of War with Alexandra Rose Howland & Wafaa Bilal

Join us on 26 - 27 August as we celebrate the launch of Foam Talent 2021 | Digital 2021. With a festive online programme, we will launch the new online exhibition with a series of tours and screenings.

The award-winning Foam Talent Digital is back this year on 26 August with Talent 2021.&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/foam-talent-2021-digital">Foam Talent 2021&nbsp;|&nbsp;</a><a href="/museum/programme/foam-talent-2021-digital">Digital</a>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;multi-media platform showcasing the work of 20 artists that were selected through the annual Foam Talent Call. Their projects are translated&nbsp;into the digital realm, supported by audio, video and interactive elements. Liberating the photographs from their frames and taking them beyond the museum walls, the exhibition pushes the boundaries of the medium and explores the outlines of its future form.&nbsp;
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PROGRAMME
18.30 hrs CET on Thursday 26 August
We will launch Foam Talent Digital | 2021. Join the FB Livestream in which the featured Foam Talents introduce the exhibition and their work with a personal message. In addition, Foam curator Hinde Haest will give a tour of the online exhibition.
13.00 hrs CET on Friday 27 August
The launch of the online exhibition is followed by a live screening of five video interviews with Foam Talents Sarker Protick, Silvia Rosi, Daniel Castro Garcia, Hajar Benjida and Leonard Suryajaya.
<a href="https://fb.me/e/3G1xMMF4k">-&gt; Join the Facebook Live Event to get a notification as soon as the festival starts.</a>
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Foam Talent is supported by the Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation and the VandenEnde Foundation. &nbsp;
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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18.30 hrs CET 26 August⁠
Introducing Foam Talent 2021
Scrolling with... virtual tours
 ⁠ 13.00 hrs CET 27 August⁠ Live screening of video interviews with Foam Talent 2021
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Launch Festival: Foam Talent 2021 | Digital

Following the award-winning first edition in 2020, Foam presents a brand new online exhibition celebrating a new generation of image-makers.

Image from the series Quarantine Blues

From the series Atlanta Made Us Famous

From the series Wish You Were Here

From the series Encounter

From the series If Spring Could Feel Ache

From the series The Mind is a Voice, the Voice is Blind

From the series Portraits in Madness

From the series Last Letters A Photographic Investigation of Taiwan White Terror

From the series Ghost Island

From the series Oil and Moss

From the series Golden Boy

From the series Heimat (in Quarantine)

From the series I Peri N Tera

ARTIS Zoo, the Netherlands, 2019

From the series Neuromantic

From the series Study of Cyclical Thoughts on My Leg

from the series Rasmi

From the series Turunç

From the series Facades

From the series Family Album

Foam Talent 2021 | Digital

The Foam Talent programme and the annual Talent issue of Foam Magazine are supported by The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, the VandenEnde Foundation and the Niemeijer Fund.

Foam Talent is made possible by Kleurgamma Fine-Art Photolab, Starframe, Oschatz Visuelle Medien and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

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.

Foam presents an all-access online exhibition celebrating the works of young artists shaping the future of photography.

 Foam Talent 2020 | Digital

To Destroy Is To Build

Foam Talent 2022: To Destroy Is To Build by Czar Kristoff

To Destroy Is To Build by Czar Kristoff

Zine-making with Czar Kristoff

visible in

Talent Talks 2022 with Pavo Marinović & Barbara Gregov

Untitled, 2013

An encounter with Davison’s imagery is like a compressed and flattened experience of advertising, photojournalism, and experimental photography in one. 

Foam Magazine #45: Talent

Foam Talent Call now open!

Jack Davison

Juno Calypso in Foam Magazine #45: Talent

Juno Calypso

Projection, from the series Countours

Still from the On Earth video tour: Mark Dorf

Watch: On Earth Video Tour with Mark Dorf

Cover of Foam Magazine #48: Talent issue. 

Mark Dorf

[2016] Untitled from the series Color Photographs, 2015

Installation shot of Site / Cloud by Daisuke Yokota at Foam

Installation shot of the exhibition Matter by Daisuke Yokota at Foam in 2017

Like many other students around me, when I first started photography I was greatly stimulated by photographers like Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Kikuji Kawada, Nobuyoshi Araki andd Masahisa Fukase. Even if I wasn’t conscious of it, I was influenced by major Japanese groups like VIVO and Provoke. However, after I graduated from college, everything became digital, and I think that freed me up from this tradition.

Foam Magazine #36: Talent

Daisuke Yokota

Mosul University, 2020, Leave and Let Us Go

Digital Layers of War with Alexandra Rose Howland and Wafaa Bilal

In 2017, Alexandra Rose Howland moved to Iraq. Whereas she made a living as a photojournalist working for various media outlets, as an artist her reason to go there was to convey the complex reality of people caught up in conflict. 

Foam 3h: Alexandra Rose Howland - Leave and Let Us Go

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South Africa, 1960s

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Response Foam Board to Het Parool article of 9 December 2022

Untitled, 2020

New York City, USA, 1971

Untitled, 2021

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 in 2018. The artwork is an ice photogram digitally printed on glass, and is displayed at 33 x 40 cm.

System 8, from the series Kosmos, 2011

In an attempt to minimize the devastating effect of global warming on the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, each summer they are covered with geotextile blankets that are designed to keep the ice cool. Douglas Mandry journeyed his native country, intrigued by this desperate attempt to prevent the receding glaciers from further melting. The artist collected disused pieces of geotextile from the mountains, and later processed them as a base for found photographs of early twentieth-century alpinism in the region. Mandry also took bits of broken ice from the glacier with him in a cool box. In the darkroom, he put the ice in the enlarger, where it started to melt and drip onto the photo paper, creating a colourful aura of the glacier. Mandry then reproduced these photograms on glass plates. 

could be considered an index of the vanishing glaciers of Switzerland: frozen time, captured in an instant by the principles of photography.

Monuments, Aletsch #2, 2018

 in 2011. Using c-print as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 99 x 129 cm.

 is reminiscent of outer space; it is a familiar picture  of the infinite, of the unknown and total chaos that surrounds us. The photographs in the series 

 by Joris Jansen refuse the reading of the medium of photography as a method to make things visible. His photographs rather make things invisible. Jansen rephotographs the surface of an analogue photograph. By doing so he creates an imaginary universe full of milky ways and swarming planets. This new universe is far removed from the initial photograph and thus only the materiality of the analogue photograph seems to be relevant for the creation of a completely new universe. 

System 8

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

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

Iyanla 
Etnel

Pimba Doti

Bere tan bere

Teri Den

"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

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

How can documentary photography help create awareness or help us understand certain environments, communities, cultures or even the medium itself?

We take a look at projects by three artists that explore how photography can create artistic portrayels of social societies. Myriam Boulos (LB), a 2022 Foam Talent, shows a series of portraits of friends and strangers that have been affected by the blast and economy in Beirut. Rahim Fortune (US) uses documentary photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Lastly, Bieke Depoorter (BE) 

explores the complexities of the photographic enterprise, grappling with the relationship between photographer and subject.

The three artists are featured in the online talk 

Navigating the media industry - Photographer's Perspective

. For many photographers today, working on commissions and assignments within the media industry helps to build and contribute to a sustainable career. How can an artist navigate the territory between their own practice and the media industry at large?

digital

Talent Digital 2022

Digital Layers of War with Alexandra Rose Howland & Wafaa Bilal

Launch Festival: Foam Talent 2021 | Digital

Foam Talent 2021 Digital

Foam Talent 2020 Digital

Press Office

Monuments, Aletsch #2, 2018

System 8, from the series Kosmos

Empowering the voices of Amsterdam’s youth through photography

On Social Documentary Photography

Potatonality Test

Foam Talent Call 2023

Foam Talent 2022 Frankfurt

Untitled, from the series Afronauts

Next Level

Magazine

Ara Güler - A Play of Light and Shadow

ABC da Cana Typewriter