For Foam Fan+ members, Foam organises three photography workshops in November based on Marubi&rsquo;s studio portraits.

Please note: the workshop is in Dutch.
Portrait photography is one of the oldest genres of photography. People who had their portraits taken back in the day wanted to utilize the photograph as a way to show their personality and status. They achieved this by having photographs taken of themselves alongside their most precious belongings, such as medals or costumes.
Nowadays we see self-portraits on a daily basis without maybe even realizing it. Selfies are practically inevitable in our environment since the digital camera and camera phones became accessible for almost everyone.
In the exhibition <a href="/museum/programme/dynasty-marubi">Dynasty Marubi</a> &ndash; <a href="/museum/programme/dynasty-marubi">A Hundred Years of Albanian Studio Photography</a>, Foam shows a selection of photos from the archive of the Albanian photo studio Marubi (1856-1959). Marubi&rsquo;s exhibition, where portrait and studio photography of the 19th century and nowadays are the central theme, is used as inspiration for the upcoming workshop in October.
THE WORKSHOP During this workshop you challenge yourself to think about the way people take a portrait photograph. You are encouraged to reflect on the methods we use to make portraits nowadays in comparison to decades ago. By using Marubi&rsquo;s work as an example, we will discuss and compare the changes that have occurred during the previous century. How has the way we take photographs changed and do we need more photographs to create a fair portrayal of our image?
The goal of this workshop is to create two portraits of each other; one in an old-fashioned way where you &lsquo;catch&rsquo; the subject in one image, and the other will be a modern portrait where you perhaps need to create a narrative.
DATE AND TIME You can sign up for one of three dates: Workshop 1: <a href="/nl/boek-een-bezoek/publiek/foam-fan-workshop-portretfotografie/25-11-2016">Friday 25 November&nbsp;2016 from 15.00 - 18.00 hrs</a> Workshop 2: <a href="/nl/boek-een-bezoek/publiek/foam-fan-workshop-portretfotografie/26-11-2016">Saturday 26 November&nbsp;2016 from 14.00 - 17.00 hrs</a> Workshop 3: <a href="/nl/boek-een-bezoek/publiek/foam-fan-workshop-portretfotografie/27-11-2016">Sunday 27 November&nbsp;2016 from 14.00 - 17.00 hrs</a>
SIGN UP This workshop is free for Foam Fan+ members.&nbsp;It is possible to bring one guest. This person pays the regular rate of &euro; 50,-.
Foam provides Olympus OM-D cameras for this workshop. Of course, you are free to use your own camera if you prefer. In that case, remember to bring a fully charged battery, an empty SD card and a transfer cable. The use of your own materials is at your own risk.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, City of Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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25 November 2016 15.00 - 18.00 hrs
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PRICE This workshop is free for Foam Fan+ members.&nbsp;
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Foam Fan+ workshop Portrait photography

Special workshop for CJP members (18 until 30) who love photography. 

<a href="/beheer/museum/programme/workshops">&gt; See our current workshop programme here.</a>
Foam offers a workshop on how to create a striking photographic portrait. This workshop will help you take even better photos of your friends and family!
Challenge yourself to think differently during the CJP portrait workshop at Foam! In this workshop, you learn all about portrait photography. To get inspired, you examine and discuss the work of professional photographers and then get to work with the camera yourself. You will improve your photos with the immediate feedback from our knowledgeable museum educators.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP The CJP workshop starts with an active tour of the museum during which you will become familiar with the principles and visual elements of photography. During the workshop you and your fellow students take each other's portraits, with a focus on making conscious choices before pressing the shutter. As you shoot, the experienced museum educator will give you tips on how to improve your photos. At the end of the workshop, all results will be reviewed and discussed in the group.
This workshop will delve more deeply into the&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/helmut-newton">Helmut Newton</a>&nbsp;exhibition.
Foam provides digital compact Olympus cameras for this workshop. You are free to use your own camera in case you prefer so. In that case, remember to bring a fully charged battery, an empty SD card and a transfer cable. The use of your own materials is at your own risk.
Please note: this workshop is in Dutch.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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6 August 2016 14.00 - 16.00 hrs. PRICE &euro;20 incl. VAT. The price includes museum admission and the use of all workshop materials.&nbsp;Suitable for CJP members (18 to 30).&nbsp;
 This workshop is in Dutch
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If you have any questions or special requests, please contact the Education department through +31 (0)20 551 6500 or&nbsp;<a href="mailto:educatie@foam.org">educatie@foam.org</a>.</div>

CJP Portrait Photography: afternoon workshops

Do you want to learn how to make better portraits? Do you practise photography, but want to perfect your skills? Join our photography workshop for CJP members (18 - 30 years).

Nike See, Nike Do, 2019

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 in 2016. Using C-print as the medium, the artwork is displayed at 100 x 80 cm.

Untitled, 2016

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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This photograph comes from a shoot that Harley Weir did for the 'Female Gaze Issue' from i-D Magazine (August 2016). For the first time in the history of the famous youth culture magazine, it devoted an entire number to women seen through the lens of only female photographers. How do women look at women? It is a theme that Harley Weir has been involved in for some time. While working in the context of the fashion industry, her photographs show a different approach to women - one that does not necessarily meet the standard beauty ideal. For example, she refuses to brush away something like pigmentation marks on the body of a model in her photos. Time and again she seeks out the tension between the erotic and functional meaning of the erogenous zones of the female body.

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Paintings, Dreams and Love

The 20 artists selected for Foam Magazine's Talent Issue look closely at the world around us, and the one within - without shying away from discomfort or pain.

The Act of Sitting

New Western Views

Tell the Trees to Smile

Le Grand Voyage – Version Courte

Languor

Marble Ass

To Destroy Is To Build

Words from Dad

There Is Nothing New Under the Sun/See Daylight

WAH’A

Maryam, 2020, Leave and Let Us Go

Shame Less A Protest Against Sexual Violence

Home/Leaving One for Another

Good Hope

The Martyrs

0N0E

Malign Influences/The Holy Mountains

Woman, who would be King

Foam Magazine #61 Talent. Image: Paintings, Dreams and Love © Yushi Li and Steph Wilson, courtesy of the artists.

Announcing Foam Talent 2022

From the series Amel Defteri: a notebook of deeds

From the series Amel defteri: a Notebook of Deeds

At the bottom of my heart, I carry protest. For the everyday struggle of Turkish LGBTQIA+ and Turkish women. I protest with my art, anything that compromises our basic human rights.

Alp Peker

Foam is proud to present the long-term educational project Twee Keer Kijken. In this teaching program Foam aims to bring two different generations together through photography. Come and see in the Lichthof space this winter.

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

Jack Davison

From the series Family Album

United by golden hues of Californian sunlight, the images together express a warm, harmonious quality

Pat Martin

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.

In 2021 Foam receives additional support from the Mondriaan Fund and Kickstart Cultuurfonds.

, with works from a new generation of visual artists.

Image from the series Maggic Cube, 2019

⁠Image from the series Flash Points

Image from the series Charlie Surfs on Lotus Flowers

Image from the series Tatsuniya

Image from the series Escape From Paradise

Image from the series Hola Mi Amol

From the series Hola Mi Amol

Foam Talks

Foam Talent 2020

Foam presents the exhibition Foam Talent 2020, with works from a new generation of visual artists at Kuhlhaus Berlin from 22 October - 1 November.

Each year, Foam invites photographers to submit their portfolios via the <a href="/talent/foam-talent-call">Talent Cal</a>l, an international search for exceptionally talented photographers under the age of 35. Selected photographers gain international exposure and recognition within the photography industry through a number of career-building opportunities offered by Foam, including publication in Foam Magazine, participation in a travelling group exhibition and the opportunity for their work to be added to the prestigious Art Collection Deutsche B&ouml;rse of the Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt.
EXCEPTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY TALENT This year 19 artists were selected as Foam Talents 2020: A&agrave;desokan (Nigeria), Sofia Borges (Brazil), Adji Dieye (Senegal/Italy), Rahima Gambo (Nigeria), Karla Hiraldo Voleau (France/Dominican Republic), Beno&icirc;t Jeannet (Switzerland), Luther Konadu (Canada/Ghana), Matthew Leifheit (United States), Douglas Mandry (Switzerland), Philip Montgomery (United States), Camillo Pasquarelli (Italy), Simone Sapienza (Italy), Micha Serraf (Zimbabwe/South Africa), Hashem Shakeri (Iran), Gao Shang (China), Kamonlak Sukchai (Thailand), Guanyu Xu (China/United States), Yorgos Yatromanolakis (Greece), Alba Zari (Italy/Thailand).
These exceptional young photographers were selected out of 1.619 received submissions from 69 countries. Their portfolios were published in the internationally distributed Foam Magazine #55: Talent. Subsequently Foam will now present their work in a travelling group exhibition.
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PORTRAIT Although Foam Talent symbolizes a rich range of genres and uses of photography, the edition of Foam Talent 2020 is characterized by (sometimes lengthy) research, in which the role of the portrait is a recurring theme. Where Alba Zari tries to construct a portrait of her unknown biological father through old family photos and computer technology, Luther Konadu's work is a reflection of the photographic portrait itself: through cutting and pasting he investigates the construction of identity.
Adji Dieye responds to economically determined stereotypes and traditional roles by reinventing an African tradition of studio portrait photography. Karla Hiraldo Voleau distorts fact and fiction and undermines the male gaze through selfies and intimate portraits of her Latin lovers. The diverse series and artworks in Foam Talent 2020 show individuals and communities that have long remained invisible or in the margins, exploring who we are and how we see ourselves in a constantly changing reality: between the analogue and the digital, between myths and belief systems, between the private and public and between fact and fiction.
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In collaboration with the Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation and C/O Berlin, Foam organized an evening full of artist talks and Q&amp;As around the opening of the exhibition Foam Talent | Berlin on 21 October 2020.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fipDZOUgRc&amp;t=899s">Click here to watch the full video.</a>
INTERNATIONAL TOUR Foam Talent 2020 will be on show at the following locations:
22 October - 1 November Foam Talent | Berlin K&uuml;hlhausBerlin
18 December 2020 &ndash; 10 March 2021 Foam Talent | Amsterdam Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
The&nbsp;Foam Talent&nbsp;programme and the annual&nbsp;Talent&nbsp;issue of Foam Magazine are supported by The Deutsche B&ouml;rse Photography Foundation,&nbsp;the VandenEnde Foundation and&nbsp;the Niemeijer Fund.
Foam Talent is made possible by Kleurgamma Fine-Art Photolab,&nbsp;Starframe, Oschatz Visuelle Medien&nbsp;and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Foam Talent Berlin is supported by Outset Germany_Switzerland.
<div>Foam Magazine is sponsored by Igepa Netherlands BV, supplier of excellent paper.</div>
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<div>Media partner: DAZED</div>
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<div>Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members and Olympus.</div>

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22 October - 1 November 2020
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LOCATION K&uuml;hlhausBerlin Luckenwalder Str. 3 10963 Berlin Germany</div>

Foam Talent | Berlin

The exhibition Gold and Silver offers a modern-day look at the nineteenth century gold rush in North America.

Contemporary projections, nineteenth century daguerreotypes and albumen photographs allow you to travel along the rivers of California and across the snow-covered mountaintops of the Yukon to fathom the ambitions, dreams and illusions of an entire generation of gold seekers.
The young adventurers differ in their postures, expressions and clothing from the usual portrait photography of that time, which was far more solemn. They are shown in combination with the landscape in which the search for gold took place.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x298/1328b2418a/instalatieshot_gold_and_silver_595x_298.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" />Installation shot, 2018 &copy; Christian van der Kooy
In the middle of the nineteenth century two great dreams became reality: the possibility of filling your pockets with gold, the most valuable of metals, and the possibility of having your likeness recorded by means of two metallic salts: gold and silver. The exhibition stresses this relationship between the gold rush and early photography.
Visit and revisit Gold and Silver, other exhibitions and <a href="/museum/programme/for-members">events</a> as a <a href="/about/memberships">Foam Member</a>.
This exhibition is a collaboration between the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada and Foam, in partnership with Library and Archives Canada. This exhibition was made possible thanks to the gift of &ldquo;The Origins of Photography&rdquo; from the Archive of Modern Conflict to the Canadian Photography&nbsp;Institute. Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Gemeente Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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Thursday 19 April 2018 from 5.30pm</div>

<div class="sidebar__content">Side-programme: 
 GOLD FEVER 7 June 2018 6.30pm - 8pm <a title="Read more" href="/museum/programme/gold-fever">Read more</a> <a title="Sign up" href="/book-a-visit/public/gold-fever/07-06-2018">Sign up</a></div>

Gold and Silver

On 5 May, Liberation Day, Foam organizes a Lunch for Freedom within <a href="/nl/over-ons/samenwerkingsprojecten/new-perspectives">New Perspectives</a>, a project that aims to stimulate creative meetings and improve the language skills of refugees.

This workshop is fully booked
Meet refugees and asylum seekers&nbsp;in Amsterdam to support them in building up a new life and taking part in society.
PROGRAMME Broaden your world on the day that annually reminds us of the right of freedom for every human being. For each paid participation Foam invites a refugee to&nbsp;join for lunch and a workshop. After a casual introduction during lunch, participants begin the portrait photography workshop in which they get to know eachother better and learn more about creating portraits. The results can be taken home as a memento of this special day. The selected refugees have expressed an interest in photography.&nbsp; This workshop will be held in English. Foam provides basic compact cameras for this workshop. Of course, you are free to use your own camera if you prefer. In that case, remember to bring a fully charged battery, an empty SD card and a transfer cable. The use of your own materials is at your own risk.
This Liberation Day event is organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam Committee 4 and 5 May.
<a href="/nl/over-ons/samenwerkingsprojecten/new-perspectives">New Perspectives</a> is made possible with support of the Kansfonds.
Foam is supported by the BankGiroLoterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, City of Amsterdam, Olympus and VandenEnde Foundation.

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5 May 2017 12.00 - 15.00 hrs
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Liberation Day Lunch

Foam is open! After years of planning, Amsterdam's brand new photography museum opens in December 2001 with dutchdelight. In 2002, Foam is allowed to stay at the Keizersgracht and celebrates with a grand exhibition on one of its progenitors: the then-recently deceased Paul Huf. 

<a id="dutchdelight"></a>DUTCHDELIGHT 13 December 2001 &ndash; 10 March 2002<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/600x300/af2a354a31/untitled__1998__copy__hellen_van_meene.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" /> Untitled, 1998 (detail) &copy; Hellen van Meene
dutchdelight&nbsp;features a selection of photographs focusing on the country&rsquo;s unique light.&nbsp;Guest curator Erik Kessels shows photographers such as George Breitner, Ed van der Elsken and Johan van der Keuken, in whose work Dutch light plays either a prominent or an entirely natural role.&nbsp; The exhibition catalogue doubles as the very first issue of Foam Magazine.<a id="Foam in the Vondelpark"></a>
FOAM IN THE VONDELPARK 17 May &ndash; 30 June 2002 <img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x298/511cda5317/bosnie__2000__copy__ilse_frech.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" /> Bosni&euml;, 2000&nbsp;(detail) &copy; Ilse Frech
Foam goes outside! This exhibition shows a varied selection of everything that photography has to offer, from commercial to sport photography, from professionals to amateurs, and everything in between. The photographs are attached to lampposts throughout the park.<a id="Regie: Paul Huf"></a>
REGIE: PAUL HUF 7 June &ndash; 12 September 2002 <img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x296/b9262437a1/fotomodel_sophie_van_kleef_drinkt_ranja_met_een_rietje__1965__copy__paul_huf.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="296" /> Fotomodel Sophie van Kleef drinkt ranja met een rietje, 1965&nbsp;(detail) &copy; Paul Huf
The retrospective Regie: Paul Huf ("Directed by Paul Huf") features some of the finest photos by one of Holland&rsquo;s best-known photographers, a pioneer and grand master of commercial, fashion and portrait photography, Paul Huf (1924 &ndash; 2002). This exhibition is especially significant for Foam because Huf, who passed away last January, was one of the founders of the museum, together with Eva Besny&ouml;. This is Foam&rsquo;s first show following three months of renovation work at Keizersgracht 609.
<a href="http://shop.foam.org/nl/foam-magazine-foam-magazine-2-regie-paul-huf.html">&gt; The accompanying magazine is still for sale here</a>.<a id="Wouda &amp; Wildschut"></a>
RAIMOND WOUDA &amp; HENK WILDSCHUT &ndash;&nbsp; HELD UP AT 52&deg;-23,5 N 04&deg;-54 E&rsquo; 23 August &ndash;&nbsp; 29 September 2002 <img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x298/b59d1d4474/sandrien_group__2002__copy__henk_wildschut_en_raimond_wouda.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" /> Sandrien crew, 2002&nbsp;(detail) &copy; Henk Wildschut en Raimond Wouda
The ship Sandrien, full of asbestos and poisonous materials, was forbidden by the Dutch environmental inspection to continue its journey to an Indian shipyard &ndash; and as thus spent a year and a half on a chain in the Amsterdam harbour. But what about the crew? Held up at 52&deg;-23,5 N 04&deg;-54 E&rsquo; is a photographic testament of the daily life of a lost crew in a silent ship by Raimond Wouda and Henk Wildschut.<a id="Don McCullin"></a>
DON MCCULLIN OR THE BUSINESS OF BEING HUMAN 20 september &ndash;&nbsp; 8 december 2002 <img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/790x395/9cc32821ee/installation_don_mccullin__2002.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="298" /> Installation Don McCullin exhibition in Foam, 2002 &copy; Foam
A retrospective on the British documentary photographer Don McCullin (1935), with work from the period 1958-2002: haunting pictures straight from the frontlines in Vietnam, Ireland and African countries, interspersed with McCullin&rsquo;s quiet British landscapes.
Curated by Robert Pledge. Made possible by the British Council.&nbsp;<a id="Young Photographers"></a>
YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS 18 October &ndash; 24 November 2002 <img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x312/de86b8cadc/rebis_i__2002__copy__koen_hauser.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="312" /> Rebis I, 2002&nbsp;(detail) &copy; Koen Hauser
Young Photographers shows the work of five recent photography graduates: Koen Hauser (1972), Linn de Kort (1980), Holger Niehaus (1975), Wouter Stelwagen (1977) and Alex de Vocht (1975). A diversity of different disciplines within photography is on show, to provide the viewer with an idea of the breadth of the medium and the current&nbsp; photographic movements in the academies.<a id="Other exhibitions"></a>
OTHER EXHIBITIONS
Annie van Gemert | Wijnanda Deroo | Carel Blazer
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.
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<a href="/museum/programme/2002-year-in-review#Regie: Paul Huf">3. Regie: Paul Huf</a>&nbsp;
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2002: Year in Review

Foam proudly presents a survey of the work of the world-famous photographic duo of Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. 

Inez and Vinoodh began their work together in 1986 in Amsterdam. Now, 25 years later, with their campaigns for fashion houses such as YSL, Chanel, Balmain, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Chlo&eacute;, and with regular publications in W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times, they are amongst the most important photographers in the world today.
They are one of&nbsp;the very few artists who&nbsp;have successfully crossed the line between fashion and art and have managed to simultaneously maintain careers in both fields. The team has lived and worked in New York since 1995.
Foam shows&nbsp;approximately 300 photographs spanning 25 years of the duo&rsquo;s career: artistic, fashion and portrait photography. Disregarding any chronological order, the combinations of images are based on personal, formal, social, political and intuitive associations that show the way the artists have lived with the images for 25 years.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/700x600/ccd79fe049/installatieshot.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="510" /> Installation Inez van Lamsweerde &amp; Vinoodh Matadin - Pretty Much Everything. Photographs 1985 - 2010 &copy; Christian van der Kooy
This exhibition was made possible thanks to Audi and Delta Lloyd.
Foam receives support from the BankGiroLoterij, the VandenEnde Foundation and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.
ABOUT INEZ &amp;&nbsp;VINOODH Inez van Lamsweerde en Vinoodh Matadin launched their international career with the publication of ten pages in the British magazine The Face in 1994. It was here that for the first time in a fashion series the models and the backgrounds were photographed separately and subsequently combined into a single image by use of a computer. The series typified van Lamsweerde and Matadin&rsquo;s hyper-realistic style and was made to celebrate and subvert fashion within the context of a magazine.
Dubiousness is at the base of practically every image they make. Their work is ambiguous in every sense of the word and balances deliberately on the thin rope between fashion and art, perverting both worlds, mirroring the strangeness of everyday life through an extreme enlargement of a singular part.
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x463/157e7b33ff/595_me_kissing_vinoodh__lovingly___1999__c__inez_van_lamsweerde__amp__vinoodh_matadin.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="463" /> Me Kissing Vinoodh (Lovingly), 1999 &copy; Inez van Lamsweerde &amp; Vinoodh Matadin
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Since each photograph demands its own dimensions, and some have been shown over the years and have their own existing size and frame style, the exhibition has&nbsp;a dynamic flow and will read like a huge stream of images &ndash; forming one flowing, pulsating sentence rather than divisions that are grouped by size or subject. This will draw the viewer into Inez and Vinoodh&rsquo;s world of constant dualism, duality and ambiguity, as well as their obsession with giving meaning to the surface, while oscillating between horror and beauty, the grotesque and the quiet, the spiritual and the banal.
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Inez & Vinoodh

In the afternoon of Tuesday 18 October, the Amsterdam City Archive and Foam are hosting an event in which two curators will elaborate about the historical and cultural significance of photo archives.
 

The portrait photography by Studio&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/dynasty-marubi">Marubi</a>, currently on show in Foam, is just a fraction of the archive collection containing an impressive 150.000 negatives of the Marubi photo studio. The archive of the photo studio, which encompasses the years 1856 through 1959, has found a home in the Marubi National Museum for Photography in Shkod&euml;r, Albania. PROGRAMME Foam curator Kim Knoppers will give a tour in which she introduces three generations of Marubi. She&nbsp;has been personally involved with the renewal of the Marubi National Museum of Photography, for which she researched the immense archives. After that tour we cross the street to visit Amsterdam's City Archive, where curator Anneke van Veen will take care of&nbsp;the second part of the programme. In the City Archive you will be bringing an exclusive visit to the restoration atelier and the exhibition Amsterdam 1900, where van Veen, among other things, will present&nbsp;an original autochrome by Zeegers, dated 1912.
<a href="https://www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief/agenda/amsterdam-1900/"><img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/500x592/12ab2f67c5/500_beelddrager_lr_klein.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="592" /></a> Unknown photographer, French photographer on a bollard in the IJ river,&nbsp;1911&nbsp;&copy;&nbsp;National Archive&nbsp;/ Collection Spaarnestad Photo / Het Leven There is a limited amount of 15 spots available to attend&nbsp;this programme.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Delta Lloyd, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

<div class="sidebar__content">EVENT INFO 
18 October&nbsp;2016 14.00 - 16.30 hrs. PRICE* &euro; 15,00 regular price &euro; 12,00 Foam Fan / Club Foam / Foam Fund &euro; 12,00&nbsp;Friends of the Stadsarchief * museum admission included in price LANGUAGE Dutch</div>

Exploring the archives

Are you a photography enthusiast and do you want to work on a concrete photography assignment, inspired by the exhibitions in Foam? Challenge yourself to think outside of the box and take part in our photography workshop based on Marubi&rsquo;s studio portraits.

Please note: the workshop is in Dutch.
In the exhibition <a href="/museum/programme/dynasty-marubi">Dynasty Marubi</a>&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;<a href="/museum/programme/dynasty-marubi">A Hundred Years of Albanian Studio Photography</a>, Foam shows a selection of photos from the archive of the Albanian photo studio Marubi (1856-1959). Marubi&rsquo;s exhibition, where portrait and studio photography of the 19th century and nowadays are the central theme, is used as inspiration for this&nbsp;workshop.&nbsp;
<img src="https://a.storyblok.com/f/113697/595x397/f765b6b353/resultaat_workshop_portretfotografie__copy__foam.jpg" alt="" width="595" height="397" /> Result of the workshop Portrait photography,&nbsp;2015 &copy; Foam SIGN UP There is&nbsp;a limited amount of spots available, so be sure to sign up on time. Tickets are only valid for reserved dates. Unfortunately it is not possible to change dates or cancel without charge after your purchase has been made. 
<a href="/nl/boek-een-bezoek/publiek/portretten-in-de-tijd/29-10-2016">&gt; Sign up now</a>
Foam provides <a href="https://www.olympus.nl/site/nl/c/cameras/om_d_system_cameras/om_d/e_m10/index.html">Olympus OM-D cameras</a> for this workshop. Of course, you are free to use your own camera if you prefer. In that case, remember to bring a fully charged battery, an empty SD card and a transfer cable. The use of your own materials is at your own risk.
Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, City of Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

<div class="sidebar__content">Course info 
29 October 2016
13.00 - 16.00
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PRICE &euro;50,00 regular rate &euro;45,00 Foam Fan/Club/Fund The price includes museum admission and the use of all workshop materials. &nbsp;
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LANGUAGE
Dutch</div>

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