Nearly 3,000 photographers submitted their work. Fifteen made it. Foam talent 2026 brings together an extraordinary group of emerging image-makers, chosen from submissions spanning 107 countries. What ended up on the walls is raw and very much alive. This is photography that really gets under your skin.

All of the work connects to a shared notion of belonging: the search for a safe space, whether found within the home, family, community, or a sense of place, is an underlying thread that surfaces in different ways across the exhibition. It is a theme that feels urgent right now, and these fifteen artists approach it from wildly different angles. Intimate and imposing, gentle and confrontational, personal and universally applicable, all at once.

The selected artists are Sean Cham, Yiding Chen, Sara De Brito Faustino, Liubov Durakova, Nad E Ali, Nazanin Hafez, Paola Jimenez, Ramona Jingru Wang, Daniel Mebarek, Ali Monis Naqvi, Alvin Ng, Adam Rouhana, Ammar Yassir, Farren van Wyk, and Sasha Velichko. Names to know, if you don’t already.

This edition also introduces a new Foam Talent Runners-up category, recognising an additional 15 emerging photographers alongside the main selection. More voices, more perspectives, more reasons to show up.

The opening is on Friday 5 June, doors from 18:30, with an opening speech at 19:00 by Foam director Karin van Gilst and curator Claartje van Dijk. It also marks the launch of Foam Magazine issue 68. The exhibition runs through 26 August 2026 at Foam, Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam.