foam magazine #19 / wonder
Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
14 May – 23 August 2009
NY Perspectives ~ Amsterdam discovered by NY photographers To mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of Manhattan Foam is teaming up with the Amsterdam City Archives and the John Adams Institute to organize an exhibition about Amsterdam as seen through the eyes of four New York photographers. Gus Powell, Carl Wooley, Richard Rothman and Joshua Lutz were each commissioned to explore a different aspect of the city: the street, the night, the water and the outskirts. The surprising images that resulted show an unknown side of Amsterdam. The exhibition is held in the Amsterdam City Archives.
© Emilie Hudig
29 May – 8 July 2009
Foam_3h: Emilie Hudig ~ Control
Yellow Van, from the series Night, 2008 © Carl Wooley/Collectie Stadsarchief
29 May – 5 July 2009
Marks of Honour Thirteen international photographers were invited to choose a photobook that has influenced them, and to pay it artistic homage. The participants show a wide spectrum of enthusiasm for photobooks and demonstrate the variety of inspirational sources. Limited to three copies, each work contains the original photobook and its complementary homage. The photographers and their homage: Harvey Benge/William Eggleston; Chris Coekin/Henrik Duncker & Yrjo Tuunanen; Peter Granser/ Robert Frank; Pieter Hugo/Roland Barthes; Tiina Itkonen/Pentti Sammallahti; Onaka Koji/Daido Moriyama; Jens Liebchen/Anthony Hernandez; Michael Light/Ansel Adams; Mark Power/Stephen Shore; Matthew Sleeth/Lars Tunbjörk; Alec Soth/Andrea Modica; Jules Spinatsch/Block 2008; Raimond Wouda/Paul Shambroom.
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In July 2007 photographer Emilie Hudig was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease for the second time. Her series Control records the process of her illness in an extremely personal way. She won The Photo Academy Award for another project in 2007 and with it an exhibition in Foam_3h. Having had no signs of the illness for 13 years, Hudig discovered it had returned. She was 34 years old, married and the mother of a tenmonth-old son. In everyday life Hudig is a documentary photographer and when her treatment started at the Amsterdam VU hospital she decided to take a small analogue camera with her everywhere. She used the camera to compile a photographic diary that expresses her feelings during her treatment. Taking photographs gave her the feeling that she did not have to give up everything that belonged to her normal life. It also had a significant impact on the atmosphere in the hospital and helped to reduce her fear. The series about Hudig’s sickbed is personal and uncompromising. The style of her story is documentary, artistic and associative. One result of this project was that Hudig discovered that, for her, photography is first of all about vulnerability and transience.