Opening Foam Talent | London, 2019

We can't live – without each other, 2019

Ka 2phisi yaka e pinky II, 2013, Her Story series

Tell the Trees to Smile

There Is Nothing New Under the Sun/See Daylight

The Act of Sitting

Malign Influences/The Holy Mountains

Face As Mask II, 2018

Koraal Tabak, 2016

Foam Talent Network Brunch, 2022

Saturday 16 December

Foam Portfolio Review Day

Foam Talent Call 2023 is closed

Being selected as a Foam Talent puts you in the spotlight of the international photography world.

Foam Talent Call

Dialect, 2020

An internationally acclaimed photography prize awarded to artists whose creative vision speaks to our current time.

Foam Paul Huf Award

A fixed exhibition space in the museum that is exclusively oriented towards the innovative work of young talent from the Netherlands and abroad.

Foam 3h

Exhibition series that aims to introduce the public to innovative art created by young visual makers with ground-breaking use of photography.

Next Level

Foam 3h: Karolina Wojtas We can't live – without each other, 2022

Grant established in memory of Florentine Riem Vis with the goal of supporting young photographic talents.

Florentine Riem Vis Grant

Opening de Meervaart 

Youth development programme that focusses on up-and-coming talent within various cultural houses in Amsterdam.

Foam Forward

Talent Programmes

Image from the series Magic Wand Tool, 2022

Wait from the series We Didn't Choose to be Born Here, 2022

Image from the series I Do Miss Hospital Visit, 2023

Between Two Charts from the series Interfaces of Predictions, 2023

Image from the series POST, 2023

Joe from the series At last I see you, 2022

Hajja in her garden from the series The Longing Of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken, 2022

Sadaqah from the series Maktub, 2023

Killa from the series Madre

Studio Targets from the series High Visibility (Blaze Orange), 2021

Image from the series Frantz Fanon, Me and The Question, 2022

Image from the series Broer, 2017 – present

The Service from the series A Study on Waitressing, 2020 – present

Wedding day from the series Las Flores mueren dos veces, 2022

Image from the series Fathom, 2020

Abraham Lincoln & Drone from the series American Glitch, 2021

authenticity (2 CHAINZ) from the series BLACK SNAFU, 2022

Untitled from the series Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth, 2022

Daughter of Elephants from the series People of Clay, 2023

In a sandstone mine 1 from the series This isn't Divide and Conquer

Image from the series Dialect

wins Foam Paul Huf 
Award 2023

Felipe Romero Beltrán

A biennial fellowship for three promising emerging photographers working in the artistic field.

recommended Olympus Fellowship

Foam was one of the founding partners of Unseen Amsterdam. Each year, Unseen is the place where many renowned galleries worldwide reveal artist's work

Unseen Photo Fair

Your Foam, 2021

The Your Foam team consists of MBO students from a variety of educations.

Your Foam

Foam Lab was a cultural traineeship for young professionals that offered suitable work experience within the museum. 

Foam Lab

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Talent

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

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

Ghazaleh Rezaei

'Lamentation' from the series The Martyrs

'The Pieta' from the series The Martyrs

'Carrying of the Martyr's Portrait' from the series The Martyrs

Bringing to Light

'Burial' from the series The Martyrs

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

Talent Digital 2022

The 20 participating artists look closely at both the world around us, and the one within - without shying away from discomfort or pain. Learn more about this year's Foam Talents through digital exhibitions, articles, podcasts and more.

from the series Marble Ass

Paintings, Dreams and Love

Waha 3, 2020

Foam Magazine #61: Talent, 2022

Foam Talent 2022

The rebirth of Red Lotus from the series Red Lotus

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From the series Facades

The fifteenth edition of Foam Talent presents a selection of 20 outstanding artists. As a result of 2020, many portfolios shed light on the year, exploring the human condition as a central theme.

Screenshot from Olgaç Bozalp's video about his zine-making process

Smoke Veil x3, Paris 1958, Painted 2011

Foam Magazine #52 Talent

Dialogue performance LostWords by Ryan Pinas and Georgiefa Boomdijk

from the series If Spring Could Feel Ache

ARTIS Zoo, the Netherlands, 2019

From the series Neuromantic

From the series Oil and Moss

From the series Ghost Island

from the series Quarantine Blues

From the series Study of Cyclical Thoughts on My Leg

from the series Rasmi

From the series Portraits in Madness

From the series Family Album

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

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

From the series Atlanta Made Us Famous

From the series Heimat (in Quarantine)

From the series Golden Boy

From the series Wish You Were Here

From the series Turunç

Foam Talks x Paris Photo: Talent Edition

Zooming In: Photography, Performance and the Mythical

zooming in

While being born out of the Covid-19 pandemic, this issue is also a beautiful, hopeful and refreshing statement about the possibilities our medium offers, and the exciting future ahead.

Leonard Suryajaya - Quarantine Blues | Foam Talent 2021

Talent Talks

Image from the series Golden Boy

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Foam produced a series of podcasts on the occasion of Foam Talent 2022. In this third and final episode, host and curator of this year's Foam Talent exhibition Mirelva Berghout speaks with Foam Talent Kata Geibl and special guest Shailoh Phillips.

Podcast

Talent Talks 2022 - Kata Geibl & Shailoh Phillips

Foam produced a series of podcasts on the occasion of Foam Talent 2022. In this second episode, host and curator of this year's Foam Talent exhibition Mirelva Berghout speaks with Foam Talent Pavo Marinović and special guest Barbara Gregov.

Talent Talks 2022 - Pavo Marinović & Barbara Gregov

From the series Inner Journey

Foam produced a series of podcasts on the occasion of Foam Talent 2022. In this first episode, host and curator of this year's Foam Talent exhibition Mirelva Berghout speaks with Foam Talent Marvel Harris and special guest Hélène Selam Kleih.

Talent Talks 2022 with Marvel Harris & Hélène Selam Kleih

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Foam Talent 2022 Frankfurt

Together, Foam and Paris Photo present a brand-new season of the podcast series Foam Talks: Talent Edition. This series presents eight talented image-makers from both the fair's Curiosa Sector and Foam Talent 2021. Each of the episodes welcomes two photographers, one of each organisations' talent programme. Brought together by a common theme and approach, the photographers speak about their projects and motivations, as well as the challenges they encounter.

Image from the series Neuromantic

Foam is celebrating a special anniversary: Foam Magazine's Talent Issue is turning 15 years old. To put a spotlight on Foam Talents, as well as the people behind Foam Magazine, Foam Talks invited editors Elisa Medde, Katy Hundertmark and Henri Badaröh to host of a mini-series.

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Talent Talks 2022 with Marvel Harris & Hélène Selam Kleih

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