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PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZINE OF THE YEAR — Lucie Award
20 young artists shaping the future of photography
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FEATURES 4 On My Mind 8 Bookshelf 10 Interview 17 Introduction Talent 2019
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33 Daniel Shea 49 He Bo 57 Valentine Bo 69 Salvatore Vitale 89 Durimel 101 Eric Gyamfi 113 Florian Amoser 121 Sophie Gabrielle 137 Senta Simond 149 Lilly Lulay 161 Takashi Kawashima 169 Jaya Pelupessy 185 Maisie Cousins 191 Sylvain CouzinetJacques 201 Stelios Kallinikou 209 Thomas Hauser 225 Carmen Winant 241 Chen Zhe 253 Gregory Eddi Jones 261 Dima Komarov
This edition of Foam Magazine Talent Issue contains a selection of 20 artists delineating photography’s state of affairs. Next to floating trends and tendencies, artists have been steadily focusing on social, political and environmental concerns, often intertwined with identity and personal representations. Today’s emerging photographers cross borders with striking ease. Classic two-dimensional representation is now interchangeable with object installations, making the experience of the work as important as its vision. Archival materials continue to have a very important role, together with multi-layered, long-term research. As always, each portfolio is accompanied by a critical essay offering further insight into the nature and concept of the project.
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Contents FEATURES ON MY MIND Jos Houweling Artur Walther Shoair Mavlian Miwa Susuda
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BOOKSHELF
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of 10x10 Photobooks
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INTERVIEW
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with Trevor Paglen by Rahel Aima
TALENT 2019 TALENT 2019 INTRODUCTION by Marcel Feil
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Text by Ashleigh Kane
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DANIEL SHEA
SYLVAIN COUZINETJACQUES
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Text by Caroline von Courten
HE BO
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Text by Taco Hidde Bakker
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VALENTINE BO Text by Kateryna Radchenko
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SALVATORE VITALE Text by Aaron Schuman
ERIC GYAMFI Text by John Fleetwood
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Text by Liz Sales
SENTA SIMOND Text by Gemma Padley
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LILLY LULAY Text by Alexandra Kรถnig
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TAKASHI KAWASHIMA Text by Eriko Kimura
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JAYA PELUPESSY Text by Liz Sales
THOMAS HAUSER Text by Duncan Wooldridge
CARMEN WINANT Text by Carmen Winant
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CHEN ZHE Text by Yining He
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Text by Mirjam Kooiman
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STELIOS KALLINIKOU Text by Kim Knoppers
DURIMEL Text by Mariama Attah
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MAISIE COUSINS
GREGORY EDDI JONES Text by Ben Burbridge
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DIMA KOMAROV Text by Anastasiia Fedorova
Marloes Krijnen Editor-in-Chief
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Editorial
Every year, for the past 12 years, photo graphers from all over the world have taken their time to share their work with us through the Foam Talent Call, wish ing to be included in the Foam Magazine Talent Issue selection and internation ally touring exhibition programme. And each year, for the past 12 years, the editors of Foam Magazine are faced with the challenge of selecting only 20 art ists out of an ever expanding number of s ubmissions — 1853 for the current edition alone. We are grateful to every single one of them, for trusting us with their work and granting us the great privilege of a front row seat to the fasci nating and ever changing panorama of the future of photography. The final selection of Foam Talent photographers each demonstrate a language and focus that speaks to the idea of what talent can look like. The variety here demonstrates the nature of the open call submission process, and is thrilling and revealing in its very design. Photographers from dozens of countries around the world share not just their projects with us, but also their visions, opinions and ambitions. From there, we are in the privileged position of guiding and enabling these photographers to new opportunities, thanks to the wider Talent Programme. We couldn’t do this without the support of our partners and sponsors
who feel as strongly as we do the power of photography to understand ourselves and to be understood by others. With this year’s selection of Talents, we have the chance to welcome a new cohort and to expand the Foam family. Our 2018 Re/Connect event was the mo ment for previous and current Talents to come together at the museum, and to meet one another, discover, and present new work. With so many new images, and so many ideas being shared with us, we had the opportunity to create a special edition poster, featuring work by two previous Talents, Olga Cafiero and Katinka Goldberg. The extended What’s New feature lets us share even more images and ideas with readers as there was so much to choose from. In the featured interview, readers can dive into a fast flowing conversation between artist and photographer Trevor Paglen and Rahel Aima, who share thoughts on algorithms, machine learning and seeing, and political and visual systems of power. Looking to wards the future, and using photography as a method for exploring unknown territories, ideas and notions of the self were reflected in many of the entries we received. There is a strong sense that the camera is still a crucial and integral part of how we understand our multiple worlds.
Portfolios range from using photography as a tool for processing, capturing and documenting ourselves, our lives and our worlds. There are portfolios aimed at better understanding private or public tragedy and ways of healing, while oth ers deal with processing grief, nostalgia and homesickness by chronicling this passage in a visual format. Other bodies of work explore real and alternative reali ties and systems of belief, both medical and spiritual, and examine their impact on the large and small details of our lives. Some projects play with analogue and digital processes and boundaries, wher ever these may lay and others approach ideas of youth and defining generational or national attitudes to life, (self) rep resentation and visions of beauty while occasionally overlapping with ideas on history, politics, and memory . Alongside the magazine, the Talent programme includes internationally touring exhibitions, events and oppor tunities which build a platform for our photographers to continue forging a path for themselves. We look forward to work ing with all of them and look forward to having you on the journey with us.
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288 ISSUE #52, TALENT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Marloes Krijnen EDITORS Mariama Attah, Marcel Feil, Marloes Krijnen, Elisa Medde MANAGING EDITOR Elisa Medde ASSISTANT EDITOR Mariama Attah EDITORIAL INTERN Toby Wall MAGAZINE MANAGEMENT Matthijs Bakker, Maureen Marck, Madeleine van Wensen ART DIRECTOR Hamid Sallali DESIGN & LAYOUT Ayumi Higuchi, Hamid Sallali TYPEFACES Haarlem (Adrien Menard), L15 Medium, L15 Medium (type), MASSIMO GRAFIA (Ubertype) CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS & ARTISTS Florian Amoser, Christopher Anderson, Nina Berman, He Bo, Valentine Bo, Chen Zhe, Maisie Cousins, Sylvain CouzinetJacques, Rineke Dijkstra, Carolyn Drake, Jalan and Jibril Durimel, Gregory Eddi Jones, Sophie Gabrielle, Eric Gyamfi, Thomas Hauser, Toyomitsu Higa, Mao Ishikawa, Stelios Kallinikou, Takashi Kawashima, Dima Komarov, Lilly Lulay, Trevor Paglen, Jaya Pelupessy, Daniel Shea, Senta Simond, Małgorzata Stankiewicz, Salvatore Vitale, Carmen Winant FRONT COVER Kaelyn and the girls, from the series Frères d’une île pas très proche © Durimel, courtesy of the artists BACK COVER Image from the series Worry for the Fruit the Birds Won’t Eat, 2018 © Sophie Gabrielle, courtesy of the artist INSIDE BACK COVER Image from the series Your next step would be to do the Transmission © Valentine Bo, courtesy of the artist INSIDE BACK COVER SPREAD Image from the series Separation Anxiety, 2018 – ongoing © Dima Komaraov, courtesy of the artist
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