New account: MacBike

3 January 2012

File 662 Almost all locals and tourists have seen the red bicycles with the round MacBike logo. They are everywhere in the city centre of Amsterdam. The bicycle company has asked Vandejong to build a new website. But we want more. We are going to develop the MacBike brand. How? Follow this blog and you will find out.

'What’s Next?'

14 November 2011

File 644 In this special Winter issue of Foam Magazine for our jubilee year the theme What's Next? arose. What's next? It's a simple question that can be asked at any given moment. A simple question, but so hard to answer.

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Holy concise data bamtan. Lol!

Wed, 12/14/2011 - 00:47

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Cityscape

14 November 2011

File 650 How do you sketch an image of the 8 million citizens of New York? You can't photograph them all. Can you? Photographer Brandon Stanton is at least trying. At this moment he has photographed 3.000 people in the streets of New York. And still counting.

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Love babies

20 June 2011

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Nose job

20 June 2011

File 472 Did someone find the original photo too explicit? Spotted on the corner of Prinsengracht and Leidsestraat. Her nose was neatly restored with paint.

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Time = money

20 June 2011

File 488 Got no money, but plenty of time on your hands? Then you will never be the broke again. The Dutch branch, Time/Bank launched. Time/Bank is an online platform where goods and services are traded with time as currency: the hour notes. You provide a service for which you will receive hour notes, next you can spend these notes on buying things yourself. You don’t have to spend your notes immediately, you can just save them to use at a later date. The bank is an initiative by artists Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle. Become a member of the bank here. Time/Bank also have some vacancies.

Just pop in

20 June 2011

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Exactly as scheduled: the opening of Foam Pop-In. 12th of May Foam opened a temporary residence in a former bank building. In addition to established artists, new talents will be exposing their work. You can buy signed prints, wander around or just pop in for a coffee. The opening was certainly a success.

Moscow before the revolution

20 June 2011

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When horse racing journalist and amateur photographer Andrew Murray Howe II had the chance to travel to Russia in the early twentieth century, he took his Graflex camera along. He ended up with more than four hundred photographs of street life in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Some of these photos were recently posted on Flickr by Howe's grandson Andrew Murray V. Howe. The images offer a unique insight into pre-revolutionary Russia and the First World War. The Russians responded enthusiastically to the pictures.

Photo: young street vendors in Moscow (1909). According to the photographer’s notes, the people asked whether they could be portrayed in the picture.

The Times they are changing

20 June 2011

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There was a time, not so long ago, when you could pick up the morning newspaper and read what had happened in the world in the past 24 hours. Newspapers were important for our view of the world. Nowadays you are instantly and continuously informed of news through media on the Internet and social media such as Twitter. So is there still a future for newspapers?

A Book of Beds

20 June 2011

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A large part of our lives we spent in our beds. So it's no surprise that it's a recurring subject in the work of many photographers. This became apparent when reviewing the countless portfolios young photographers submitted to Foam Magazine for the Talent issue. So Foam Magazine decided to make a book on the subject of beds: A Book of Beds. The images were selected from the portfolios sent in to the Foam Magazine editorial office between 2009 and 2010.

Available in selected bookstores and on www.foam.org/shop.

We are all fanatics

20 June 2011

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On may 4, we remembered the effects of mass fanaticism. Throughout the day we are subject to images of Nazi fanatics on television and in the papers. We never want that awful part of our history to happen again, yet fanaticism is still a part of our everyday reality, on a smaller scale and in a different shape and form, but never the less apparent.

Tree Track

20 June 2011

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Do you know how much wood you consume on a yearly basis? Probably not. We are hardly aware of the amount of raw materials that are used to make the products we buy everyday. The work of Christien Meindertsma clarifies a lot on that subject. Previously her brilliant book PIG 05049 showed us all the products made from one single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, chewing gum, porcelain, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.

Close up Japan

20 June 2011

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We have all seen the horrific images of the areas in Japan hit by the recent earthquake and tsunami, but nothing gave us a closer look than the Rolls Tohoku-project. Tohoku is the area in Japan that suffered most from the devastation brought by the tsunami. Aicho Hirano, a fashion photographer spread disposable cameras among the local population and asked them to take pictures. This resulted in ...strong images. Sometimes funny, but mostly tragic and moving. The photos give us a completely different view of the tsunami than the media have been able to thus far.

Aicho Hirano will be featured in the next edition of Foam Magazine, released on June 15.

From Ayumi:

25 March 2011

I'm Ayumi Higuchi. I'm from Japan and I work as a creative trainee at Vandejong. I would like to do something to support the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. A lot of initiatives have been started to support the people in the damaged areas. Maybe you have already done something to help, maybe you haven't. In that case I would like to point out 5 ways to support Japan. Download 5 ways to help Japan now! I hope you pick one and forward this flyer to your friends and collegues.

Thank you very much,

Ayumi Higuchi
ayumi@vandejong.nl

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Guarbussy (not verified)

good start

Sat, 07/02/2011 - 17:19

website van de initiatiefnemers (not verified)

Deze website is echt een walk-through voor alle info die je wilde over deze en wist niet wie hij moet vragen. Glimpse hier, en je zal zeker ontdekken.

Sat, 06/04/2011 - 21:52

manipulacna technika (not verified)

I have been reading out many of your articles and i can claim clever stuff. I will surely bookmark your website.

Mon, 05/23/2011 - 17:54

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What's Next? Expert Meeting

22 March 2011

File 403 The What’s Next? Expert Meeting was a great success! After the launch of the website earlier in the month, this Saturday the Expert Meeting took place at Foam Amsterdam. 120 experts were invited to discuss the future of photography. Among the speakers were well known blogger Laurel Ptak (iheartphotograph.com) and photographer Thomas Ruff. What’s the influence of the internet on the world of photography? Who is the new generation of photographers? These are only two of the questions discussed during the meeting. Keep updated with What’s Next?. Summaries, photo’s and the highlights from the meeting will be posted on What’s Next?, so check in regularly to get the latest updates.

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