Foam Magazine – Issue 53

Foam Magazine Issue 53 (Adorned, The Fashionable Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. This issue presents the portfolios of 16 photographers, artists and collectives, each adopting distinct and empowering approaches to contemporary fashion photography.

What was once called fashion photography finds itself nowadays positioned along a much broader spectrum of intentions and visual cues. Photographers are borrowing from the aesthetics of fashion, moving away from creating glamorous ideals towards telling stories of social and political inclusivity, diversity, identity, everyday life and an ever changing panorama of lifestyles.

In this issue we present the portfolios of 16 photographers, artists and collectives, each adopting distinct and empowering approaches to contemporary fashion photography. We’ve also had the chance to include a number of insightful and inspiring interviews with people from the fashion photography field. Alongside this, we feature a long form interview between curator Zoé Whitley and fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, discussing fashion and identity. Furthermore, we are pleased to share an interview between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, and Tyler Mitchell. They covered optimism, utopias, and how photography can be a way of achieving the impossible. Running throughout are interventions by invited fashion magazines sharing their editorial visions.

Foam Magazine is an international photography magazine published three times a year by Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. The magazine serves as an exhibition space that embraces every aspect of photography from documentary to fashion, from contemporary to historical, from world famous photographers to young talent. The annual Foam Magazine Talent Issue and the related Talent Programme are supported by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Niemeijer Fund. Foam Magazine is sponsored by Igepa Netherlands BV, supplier of excellent paper. Foam Magazine has been awarded several prizes for both its high-grade graphic design and the quality of its content. Most recently, Foam Magazine was awarded Photography Magazine of the Year at the Lucie Awards 2017 and 2019.

Contributing photographers and artists

Mohamad Abdouni, Mel Bles, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Giovanni Corabi & Roberto Ortu, Justin Dingwall, Charlie Engman, Julia Falkner & Lorena Hydeman, Jamie Hawkesworth, Nadine Ijewere, Ethan James Green, Casper Kofi, Alexandra Leese, Tyler Mitchell, Joyce Ng, Mark Peckmezian, Marton Perlaki, Hadar Pitchon, Mateus Porto, Alice Quaresma, Claire Rothstein, The Sartists, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Catherine Servel, Suzie and Leo, Ambroise Tézenas & Frédéric Delangle

Contributing writers

Siobhán Bohnacker, Saskia De Brauw, Roberto Filippello, Stephen Galloway, Yumi Goto, Max Houghton, Kimberley Jenkins, Shonagh Marshall, Jess Maybury, Jimmy Moffat, Jasmine Raznahan, Eugenie Shinkle, Maisie Skidmore, Carla Sozzani, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Grace Wales Bonner, Zoé Whitley, Elisa De Wyngaert

Awards

Foam Magazine has been awarded several prizes for both its high-grade graphic design and the quality of its content. Most recently, Foam Magazine was awarded Photography Magazine of the Year at the Lucie Awards 2017.

Details: Foam Magazine – Issue 53

288 pages, printed on selected specialised paper, 300 x 230 x 23 mm, 1200 g