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The West Desert, located on the western shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah (USA), is the ancestral home of the indigenous Goshute people. Though officially public lands, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, this area is largely used for various privatised or military purposes, ranging from mining operations, testing grounds for weapons and improvised gun ranges.  

, Jaclyn Wright visited these cluttered sites, full of discarded targets and shattered clay pigeons. The bullet-holed remains, which she collected, photographed and filmed, are pieced together into performative installations, that reflect on the colonisation of ancient lands by bureaucratic systems.  

By inserting herself into the scene, wearing a skintight bodysuit made out of orange clay pigeons, Wright comments on the hyper-masculine culture of land dominance and cowboy fantasies. The synthetic orange colour becomes symbolic: used to enhance visibility, it signifies the strong opposition and rejection of its natural environment. 

Untitled (BLM arrows I)

From the series High Visibility (Blaze Orange)

Antelope Island (Utah) Buffalo Hunt photograph collection, Digital MSSC782, No. 6, Altered

L. Clyde Anderson photograph collection (1910- 1959), P0158, Box 1, Folder 27, Altered

Charles James Neal photograph collection (1900 - 1920s), P0694, Box 1, Folder 4, Altered

The West Desert is located on the western side of the Great Salt Lake [UT, United States]. Historically, this area has been documented through photography and land surveys, supporting the violent exploitation of the landscape. 

Archives, II

Untitled (grid)

Nearly one-third of the West Desert's 7.7 million acres are used as biological and chemical weapons testing grounds. The remaining areas of the West Desert are open to various uses, including improvised gun ranges.

Collected Targets

Collected Targets, from the series High Visibility (Blaze Orange)

L. Clyde Anderson photograph collection (1910- 1959), P0158, Box 1, Folder 6, Altered

Stansbury Island, the second largest island in the Great Salt Lake, echoes with gunfire and is littered with bullet holes, clay pigeons and improvised targets. The Bureau of Land Management refers to this detritus as "trigger trash".

Found Clay Pigeons

Archives, V

Jaclyn Wright

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 Call 2023 is closed

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Dialect, 2020

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

Foam Paul Huf Award

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Foam 3h

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

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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.

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Opening de Meervaart 

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

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Image from the series Dialect

There are fairies by the lake, from the filmstrip series 36 Serendipities, 2021

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

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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

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Your Foam, 2021

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 Foam Magazine #65: Talent, 2024

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Foam Magazine #64 Extremes - The Environmental Issue. Cover: Abundance, 2023

Cover image: Sunil and Sulbha Dhiwar, with Tanmay, Tejasvi, Sourabh, Prachi and Vivek from the Goody family archive, 2002. Image from the series Eat with Great Delight

Cover image: Untitled / After Courbet (L’origine du monde), 2004. Colour photograph, 46x55cm. Photograph: David Rych.

Foam Magazine 61 Talent. Image: Paintings, Dreams and Love © Yushi Li

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Image from the series EIGHTEEN NINETY 2020 installation detail from the exhibition In Plain Sight

Foam Magazine is published two times a year. Each issue is dedicated to a specific theme that is explored through work by both world-renowned image makers and newer, emerging talents. Accompanying essays, interviews and opinions by experts in the field come together to shape an in-depth and critical conversation.

Crafted with distinct editorial choices, Foam Magazine has been the recipient of several awards for its high-grade graphic design and quality of content.

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Image from the series Playing with Visual Fragments

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Foam Magazine #59: Histories - The Archival Issue, 2021 

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Image from the series Collection of Unjust Enrichment

Image from the series Where We ve Been, Where We re Going Why

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Deborah, from the series Week– End, 2009

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Hoàng uses food symbolism and unconventional surfaces to demonstrate the stereotypes that exist in Western narratives with regards to Asian culture.

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, Bruno Zhu transformed the Foam 3h space, which is also a library, into another reading room – albeit a two-dimensional one.

Foam: 3h Bruno Zhu - New Arrivals, 2015

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 He filled the area with photographs of carpets, bookshelves, lamps, and phonebooks. As no actual reading could be done, Zhu rendered the room into a symbolic space that referenced the idea of reading.

Zhu light-heartedly explores his fascination for photography’s ambivalent nature as a symbol and an object in and of itself. One might be tempted to qualify Zhu’s work as post-digital, because of the influence of the technology and the Internet, but the artist insists not to be tied to one style. “Things are getting more awkward, more humorous, more visceral and more urgent, so why rely on a label to box all these things up?” His peculiar work invites the viewer into a world of brightness and positivity.

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Employing a technique that combines photography with installation art, Onorato & Krebs maintain a balance in their photographs on the edges of reality and fiction, without using any image editing software. 

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych), from the series Light of Other Days, 2011

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Their process of altering the visual product before instead of after the image is captured opens a new world of meanings and possibilities. In 

 the illusion of a fictional galaxy takes us far beyond the confines of the studio.

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych) from the series 

Studio Universe 2 (Diptych)

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych), from the series Light of Other Days, 2011

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych) from the series 

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych)

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From the series Frantz Fanon, Me, and The Questions

Fortune in My Thirties from the series Interfaces of Predictions, 2023

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Smile

Installation view 'Maktub' by MAryam Touzani in Foam Talent 2024-2025

What does it mean to use your teeth to find your family history? Born and raised in the Netherlands, MAryam Touzani examines her own teeth to come closer to her family and to find out whether her family truly existed.

Foam Talent Digital 2024-2025

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Tracy in Camo, 2023

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Western Costume Jacket (Cheerleader), Skirt (Cheerleader) Showgirl (Bra Top, Long Fringe), 2023

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from the series Marble Ass

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.

The Feast Inside, from the series Paintings Dreams and Love

Talent Talks 2022 - Pavo Marinović & Barbara Gregov

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

Installation view 'Frantz Fanon, Me and The Questions' by Issam Larkat in Foam Talent 2024-2025

To a large degree self-taught, there is in Larkat's work a fierce commitment to creating images not only of but for his Algerian and African counterparts; within aesthetics that portray the poor living in 'native towns', individuals neglected and discarded as irrelevant waste by both Europe and their own government.

Issam Larkat

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Announcement Winner Foam Paul Huf Award 2024

 by Paolo Cirio focuses on the social implications of AI systems, machine learning AI models, and the use of data. Cirio sees AI as a form of automated violence, expressed through surveillance, discrimination, and disinformation. With his work, he challenges power structures by exploring AI for his counterattacks.

The exhibition showcases installations with prints, videos, and artefacts, highlighting his online artistic interventions and activist campaigns and prompting reflection among the general public.

Mugshots.com, N1, from the series Obscurity, 2016

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Mugshots.com, N8, from the series Obscurity, 2016

Paolo Cirio - AI Attacks

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How to Love a Tree: Wild Encounters
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Studio Universe 2 (Diptych) from the series Light of Other Days

Studio Universe 1 (Diptych) from the series Light of Other Days

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Foam Talks about Pamcore, Fashion Trends and Meta Cringe with Sara Cwynar and Agustina Panzoni

Talent Talks 2022 - Pavo Marinović & Barbara Gregov

Announcement Winner Foam Paul Huf Award 2024

Next Level: Paolo Cirio AI Attacks

How to Love a Tree: Wild EncountersAbout the work of Hira Nabi

FPHA Jury Announcement 2023

Kısmet

Through the lens of Turkish visual culture

Next Level: Paolo Cirio

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Next Level: Paolo Cirio
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How to Love a Tree: Wild Encounters
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