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At once amusing and unsettling, these in-your-face images cast a light on a world shaped by consumption and mass product...
01/06/2026

At once amusing and unsettling, these in-your-face images cast a light on a world shaped by consumption and mass production. ⁠
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By using a macro lens and harsh flash to achieve extreme close-ups and high contrast, Martin Parr created hyperreal images that expose the excesses of global consumer culture. ⁠
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As a photographer, Parr was interested in the crossover between different types of photography and purposefully played with the visual language of advertising to bridge the domains of art and commerce. With Common Sense, he cemented his reputation for incisive, and often witty, observations of everyday life.⁠
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Very Modern and Rather Ugly is still on view at Foam!⁠
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How do women look at women?⁠⁠It is a theme that Harley Weir () has been involved in for some time. While working in the ...
21/05/2026

How do women look at women?⁠
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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.⁠
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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.⁠
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This image is part of Foam's Collections and is not currently on view at the museum. ⁠
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Untitled ©️Harley Weir / Foam Collection

"For much of history, depictions of Black life filled with ease, playfulness and joy have been remarkably rare. Tyler Mi...
20/05/2026

"For much of history, depictions of Black life filled with ease, playfulness and joy have been remarkably rare. Tyler Mitchell’s early portraits are, in some ways, a response to this. His portraits communicate a sense of lightness, as Black subjects move freely through colourful settings, playing or resting, while donned in beautiful garments or the comfiest pair of jeans. These vibrant portraits stand in sharp contrast with dominant visual representations of Black bodies, the subjects of Mitchell’s work."⁠
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Read the full article about Tyler Mitchell's portfolio in our latest issue of Foam Magazine #67: The Test of Time.

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Article written by Mirelva Berghout ()⁠
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All images from the series I Can Make You Feel Good © Tyler Mitchell.⁠
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In Common Sense – made in the 1990s across Europe, America and Japan – Martin Parr zooms in on everything from fast food...
19/05/2026

In Common Sense – made in the 1990s across Europe, America and Japan – Martin Parr zooms in on everything from fast food, souvenirs and fashion accessories to eye-catching goods and absurd scenes. By using a macro lens and harsh flash to achieve extreme close-ups and high contrast, he created hyperreal images that expose the excesses of global consumer culture. ⁠
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At once amusing and unsettling, these in-your-face images cast a light on a world shaped by consumption and mass production. As a photographer, Parr was interested in the crossover between different types of photography and purposefully played with the visual language of advertising to bridge the domains of art and commerce. With Common Sense, he cemented his reputation for incisive – and often witty – observations of everyday life, rendered in tightly cropped, saturated colour photographs. ⁠
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Common Sense is a part of the exhibition Very Modern and Rather Ugly on view now at Foam.⁠
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Get your tickets via the our website!

Last week to see Love S**t by Verena Blok!⁠⁠Love S**t underscores that bringing new life into the world is not only joyf...
18/05/2026

Last week to see Love S**t by Verena Blok!⁠
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Love S**t underscores that bringing new life into the world is not only joyful or straightforward, but also intertwined with physical transformation, life-changing choices and conflicting emotions. Blok asks who ultimately decides over pregnancy and birth, and whether society provides enough support for those who have a child. ⁠
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Love S**t by Verena Blok is still on view until 25 May.⁠
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Anneliese, January 2024, Berlin © Verena Blok

How does the scarred history of Native Americans relate to the world of their youngest generation? ⁠⁠This question led p...
16/05/2026

How does the scarred history of Native Americans relate to the world of their youngest generation? ⁠
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This question led photographer Cuny Janssen to travel to Bartlesville, Oklahoma (USA), home to the Turtle clan from the matriarchal Delaware tribe. ⁠
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For her project, My Grandma was a Turtle, Janssen photographed children with Native American roots and the environments in which they grow up, trying to capture the connection between the two. Critical of the stereotyped representation of Native Americans in popular media, Janssen portrayed the children and their environments in an uninhibited way.⁠
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This resulted in a series of intimate portraits, such as this one of William Scott Burks, exploring the relationship between culture, society and upbringing.⁠
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This image is part of Foam’s collection.⁠ It's not currently on view at the museum.⁠
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Bartlesville, OK, USA, 2008, William Scott Burks © Cuny Janssen / Foam Collection

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen () embarked on a series of journey...
15/05/2026

In the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen () embarked on a series of journeys through the crumbling edges of the former empire. The result of those travels, Let's Sit Down Before We All Go, is a quietly devastating collection of photographs that documents the everyday lives of people caught in the deeply uncertain wake of a seismic political shift.⁠
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The title refers to a widespread Russian custom: before setting off on a long journey, one pauses in silence to reflect on the place being left behind and to imagine the place one is about to travel to.⁠
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Interested? Alexander Burenkov wrote an entire article about the project, which you can read in the new Foam Magazine #67: The Test of Time. ⁠
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Click the link in bio to get your own copy!⁠
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All images from the series Let's Sit Down Before We Go © Bertien van Manen.

“You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in w...
14/05/2026

“You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviours can be found”⁠
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Martin Parr was a pioneer of colour photography in the 1980s, when many documentary photographers still worked exclusively in black and white. During the exceptionally hot summers of 1983 and 1984, he turned his lens on the seaside resort of New Brighton in northern England. ⁠
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he photographs in The Last Resort show the British at leisure and display Parr’s sense of humour, provocation and photographic composition, while also reflecting the social realities of prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, an era of economic decline and shifting class politics. ⁠
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Martin Parr series 'The Last Resort' is part of the exhibition Very Modern and Rather Ugly, now on view at Foam.⁠
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Johan van der Keuken was a Dutch photographer, filmmaker and documentary maker who was schooled in Paris as a cineaste. ...
13/05/2026

Johan van der Keuken was a Dutch photographer, filmmaker and documentary maker who was schooled in Paris as a cineaste. His prolific career spanned more than four decades in which he published nine photobooks and made fifty-five documentaries.⁠
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The first three works were published in the book Mise au jour, which consists of 45 images by Johan van der Keuken. Mise au jour means to bring to light, to dig up or to update.⁠
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The last image was is published in the book 'Sommières 1961'. It consists of photographs made in the summer of 1961 in this small city in the South of France.⁠
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All images are available as prints via Foam Editions!⁠
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Image credits in order of post:⁠
1. Achter Glas, 1957 © Johan van der Keuken⁠
2. Jerzu, Sardinië, 1963 © Johan van der Keuken⁠
3. Amsterdam, 1960-1965 © Johan van der Keuken⁠
4. Sommières, 1961 © Johan van der Keuken

How does Ren Hang’s () work stand the test of time?⁠⁠An excerpt from our latest issue reflects on Ren Hang’s career and ...
07/05/2026

How does Ren Hang’s () work stand the test of time?⁠
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An excerpt from our latest issue reflects on Ren Hang’s career and how he used portraiture to challenge censorship in contemporary China.⁠
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“Through both language and imagery, Ren Hang explored forces that resist easy articulation — dreams, emotions, and subconscious states. The sexual explicitness often associated with his work may, in fact, mark a kind of brutal fragility — an expression of the vulnerability he experienced throughout his life.”⁠
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Read the full article by Mika Kobayashi (@ mika__kobayashi) in Foam Magazine #67: The Test of Time.⁠
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Order your copy via our webshop.⁠
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All images courtesy of the artist's estate and Blindspot Gallery⁠ ⁠ .

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