Announcing Foam Talent 2017

I am glad to be part at the 11th Foam Talent - YEAH!






20 photographers selected for Foam Magazine Talent Issue and exhibitionEach year, Foam organises a Talent Call, an international search for exceptionally talented photographers under the age of 35. Foam is delighted to announce the names of the 20 young artists, whose work will feature in the upcoming Foam Magazine #48: Talent. This year – for the first time – the parallel Foam Talent exhibition will be launched at the museum in Amsterdam before travelling internationally. Comprising an exciting range of works drawn from the pages of the Talent Issue, the exhibition will open on 31 August 2017 at Foam.

The selected photographers for Foam Magazine #48: Talent are:
Sushant Chhabria (India), David De Beyter (France), Mark Dorf (USA), Alinka Echeverría (Mexico/UK), Weronika Gęsicka (Poland), Wang Juyan (China), Thomas Kuijpers (The Netherlands), Quentin Lacombe (France), Clément Lambelet (Switzerland), Namsa Leuba (Switzerland/Guinea), Erik Madigan Heck (USA), Alix Marie (France), Martin Errichiello & Filippo Menichetti (Italy), Wang Nan (China), Kai Oh (South Korea), Viacheslav Poliakov (Ukraine), Ben Schonberger (USA), Sadegh Souri (Iran), Harit Srikhao (Thailand) and Vasantha Yogananthan (France).

The 11th Talent Call was the largest to date, with an impressive 1790 submissions from 75 different countries. Again, the jury was delighted by the wide variety and high quality of all submissions. The Foam Talent programme is a career building platform, helping to launch aspiring image-makers into the international photography industry, giving them global acclaim and recognition.

Les Nuits de Fourvièvre Lyon 2017

Image by Namsa Leuba - from the series Kingdom of Mountain, Lesotho

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©namsa leuba

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