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Eric Gyamfi

You are invited to join us on Thursday 12 December for the festive opening of three new exhibitions: 

ADORNED - THE FASHIONABLE SHOW<a href="/museum/programme/adorned-the-fashionable-show"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x896/abf0b0b3ec/untitled_from_the_series_family_work_2018_c_hadar_pitchon_courtesy_of_the_artist_595x896.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="896" /></a>Untitled, from the series Family Work, 2018 &copy; Hadar Pitchon/ courtesy of the artist
The exhibition Adorned &ndash; The Fashionable Show presents intriguing and challenging fashion-related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists. For them, fashion and style are primarily tools to construct or question identities, to empower people and to play with cultures, gender, race and ages. While some participating artists have already been discovered by well-established fashion brands, others continue to work from within their own communities. These artists are outspoken, challenging, critical or provocative, and relevant in a time defined by fundamental power shifts in which access, diversity and identity are keywords.
<a href="/museum/programme/adorned-the-fashionable-show">&gt;&nbsp;Read more about this exhibition</a>
ERIC GYAMFI - FIXING SHADOWS<a href="/museum/programme/eric-gyamfi-fixing-shadows"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x397/9fa08b273c/untitled_from_the_series_fixing_shadows__julius_and_i_c_eric_gyamfi_595x397.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="397" /></a>Untitled, from the series Fixing shadows; Julius and I, 2018 &copy; Eric Gyamfi
Eric Gyamfi uses storytelling to position his own past into a more universal experience of belonging. His self-portraits and quasi-diaristic installations about his own nomadic existence are deeply personal, yet transcend his individual experience. Employing an array of visual methods to recount memories that hover somewhere between autobiography and fiction. His work consists of collages, writings, sound and prints that were developed using various processes, such as cyanotype and screen-printing. His photographs are presented as powerful but deeply ambiguous tools to recount and reinvent stories &ndash; be they true or false.
<a href="/museum/programme/eric-gyamfi-fixing-shadows">&gt; Read more about this exhibition</a>
FOAM 3H: SOL&Egrave;NE G&Uuml;N -&nbsp;TURUN&Ccedil;<a href="/museum/programme/solene-gun-turunc"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x732/79af47c44c/2_turunc_2018_c_solene_gun_595x732.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="732" /></a>1_Turun&ccedil;,&nbsp;2018 &copy; Sol&egrave;ne G&uuml;n
Photographer Sol&eacute;ne G&uuml;n records the fraternity, solidarity and hope that connects young men with a Turkish background in the suburbs of Paris and Berlin. As a community, they are often confronted with situations of boredom, violence and despair. G&uuml;n translates the contradictory desire that she sees in these young men into poetic images. On the one hand, the need to hide. On the other hand, the need to show oneself. Her work empathises with a group that is often burdened with negative stereotyping. In her photographs, the suburbs become a universe apart, out of sight or interest of the government, in which a lack of perspective goes hand in hand with strong solidarity.
<a href="/museum/programme/solene-gun-turunc">&gt; Read more about this exhibition</a>
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

<div class="sidebar__content">OFFICIAL OPENING 
Thursday 12 December 2019 from 20:00 hrs onwards
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The opening will take place in the presence of several featured artists.
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DRINKS by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AsahiSuperDryNL/">Asahi Super Dry</a>
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MUSIC by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DRKNGHTSCOLLECTIVE/">DRKNGHTS COLLECTIVE</a></div>

Official opening: Adorned, Eric Gyamfi & Solène Gün

Foam proudly presents&nbsp;Fixing Shadows,&nbsp;an exhibition of the work of Eric Gyamfi (1990, GH), the artist selected by an international jury as the winner of the&nbsp;Foam Paul Huf Award 2019.
Eric Gyamfi uses storytelling to position his own past into a more universal experience of belonging. His self-portraits and quasi-diaristic installations about his own nomadic existence are deeply personal, yet transcend his individual experience. The artist employs an array of visual methods to recount memories that hover somewhere between autobiography and fiction. His work consists of collages, writings, sound and prints that were developed using various processes, such as cyanotype and screen-printing.
At the invitation of Foam, Gyamfi translated his scrapbook-aesthetic onto the museum walls. The resulting installations make us reconsider the meaning of a photographic image as a record of the truth or the externalization of personal memory. Instead, the photograph is presented as a powerful but deeply ambiguous tool to recount and reinvent stories &ndash; be they true or false.
Visit and revisit&nbsp;the work of Foam Paul Huf Award Winner Eric Gyamfi, other exhibitions and <a href="/museum/programme/for-members">events</a> as a <a href="/about/memberships">Foam Member</a>.
Eric Gyamfi is the winner of the 13th <a href="/talent/foam-paul-huf-award">Foam Paul Huf Award</a>, which is awarded annually by an international jury to talented photographers under the age of 35.
The exhibition is made possible by Kleurgamma Fine-Art Photolab.
The Foam Paul Huf Award is made possible by the generous support from an anonymous partner. 
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
ABOUT THE FOAM PAUL HUF AWARD The&nbsp;Foam Paul Huf Award, which is awarded annually to talented international photographers under the age of 35, includes a cash prize of &euro;20,000 and an exhibition at Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam. The jury has chosen Eric Gyamfi as the winner out of 100 nominees from 25 countries. Previous winners include Taryn Simon (2007), Alex Prager (2012), Daniel Gordon (2014) and Daniel Shea (2018).
<a href="/home/eric-gyamfi-wins-foam-paul-huf-award-2019">&gt; Read the full jury statement</a>

Eric Gyamfi - Fixing Shadows

John Edmonds - A Sidelong Glance, 2022

Award prize

Selection criteria

Winner Foam Paul Huf Award 2023

Felipe Romero Beltrán

Dialect, 2020

Jury 2023

In his Dialect series, Romero Beltrán works with young people who have illegally crossed the maritime border between Morocco and Spain and are waiting for their migratory status to be resolved in Seville. The photographs are explorations of these young people's experiences, in which the body engages in dialogue with their memories and the time spent waiting in the migratory centre. 