FOAM
FOAM TALENT
Each year, Foam Magazine holds a talent call: a search for exceptionally talented photographers from all across the world.
Photographers are invited to submit their portfolios for publication in the magazine's annual talent issue and the accompanying travelling exhibitions. For selected photographers, the 'talent stamp' functions as a springboard for the international photo industry, earning them global recognition and
praise.
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS
Jacques-Aurélien Brun (CH), Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore (FR), Salvi Danés (ES), #Dysturb (FR), Laura El-Tantawy (EG/UK), Mayumi Hosokura (JP), Anouk Kruithof (NL), Quentin Lacombe (FR), Clément Lambelet (CH), Matthew Leifheit (US), Namsa Leuba (CH/GN), Dana Lixenberg (NL), Mike Lundgren (US), Amak Mahmoodian (IR), Ari Marcopoulos (NL), Izumi Miyazaki (JP), Hiroshi Okamoto (JP), Christian Patterson (US), Irina Popova (RU/NL), Jon Rafman (CA), Charlie Rubin (US), Laurie Simmons (US).
British Journal of Photography
Transmontanus
Personal and emotive, the images are a deliberately oblique take on a region “rich in natural areas”. “Transmontanus is like a topographic fable where biography and topography mix,” he says. “We live in a world of colour, in a world of reality and of the present. The dreamlike tone – sometimes one of regression, of memories – is strengthened by the use of black and white, and of light.”
“Both a journal and a journey back to a landscape we knew as children”, the project’s title references both its direct translation – “further from the mountains” – and the tramuntana wind that often occurs in Emporda. “An agent of change and erosion” this wind can change things and thus, says the 29-year-old, serves as a metaphor for the way that life has changed him and his relationship with his home town.
“The intention is to build a temporary and symbolic pattern which shows a present, but at the same time references previous experiences and longings that are to come,” he says. “My reencounter with a known but absolutely different reality generated a feeling of wanting to reencounter myself within this personal territory [and] to generate a document of the feelings that were coming to me again.”
Danés has published the project as a book with Ediciones Anomalas, carefully editing the images to allow readers to move fluently from one shot to the next and “establish a subjective relationship with the images you’ve seen and the ones you’re about to see”.
POLKA
A les 8 al bar EUSEBI
Créé en 2007 par Alain Genestar, Polka est le magazine de toutes les photographies: la photographie qui témoigne, celle qui explique et décrypte l'actualité. La photo, objet d'art et de culture. La nouvelle photographie connectée... Trimestriel, Polka fait partie de cette nouvelle génération de médias qui prend le temps de l'analyse pour donner du sens à l'information.
VICE
Érase una vez en Almería
Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la provincia andaluza de Almería acogió el rodaje de hasta seiscientos spaghetti westerns, entre ellos la seminal trilogía del dólar de Sergio Leone. La industria del cine de explotación reanimó una zona deprimida y manta como fue siempre el sur de España, pero tras la dictadura de Franco, las pistolas dieron paso al cine de destape y las cabalgadas tomaron otra acepción. El recuerdo de "la época de las películas" permanece en la zona, así como la resistencia y la pena de los profesionales del western ibérico.
Rubén Lardín.
