Foam salutes the arrival of spring with an unmissable series of exhibitions, opening on Thursday, March 19^th in presence of the photographers: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Geert Goiris, Regine Petersen.

To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light is a phrase Kodak used to define the extraordinary quality of a photographic film that was released by the company in the early 1980s. Before then, in effect, the film’s limited capability to depict black skin had even driven movie director Jean-Luc Godard to accuse early color photography of racism. This anecdote is the starting point of a disturbing history lesson on the theme of racism in photography, carried out by Broomberg & Chanarin through a brilliant survey on the ambiguity of the medium.

First solo show of Belgian artist Geert Goiris in the Netherlands, Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophecies gathers a series of photographs, wallpapers and slide shows where sublime landscapes, architectures and mysterious portraits follow one another in a suspended atmosphere. In balance between fact and fiction, Goiris’ photographs trigger a doubt on the veracity of photography, generating uncountable new stories and perceptions out of a certain reality.

Regine Petersen’s exhibition Find a Fallen Star follows is the artist’s reward for her selection as the best artist of Unseen Photo Fair 2014. By chasing stories of fallen meteorites all over the world, Petersen wrote a multi-layered roman around this theme, divided into chapters: each case, with its unique features of place, time, history and memory, is portrayed with photographs, found documents and interviews.

New Exhibitions at Foam
Opening: Thursday, March 19th from 5:30 pm

Broomberg & Chanarin, To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
From March 20th to June 3rd
Geert Goiris, Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophecies
From March 20th to May 24th 
Regine Petersen, Find a Fallen Star 
From March 20th to May 3rd

Foam Photography Museum 
Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam
www.foam.org