Founder and Director of FOAM, Amsterdam

Marloes Krijnen is the Founder and Director of Foam since 2001. Foam enables people from all over the world to experience and enjoy photography, whether at the museum in Amsterdam, on the website, via the internationally distributed Foam Magazine or in the print sales room of Foam Editions. She studied political science and mass communication at the University of Amsterdam and has been director of World Press Photo for ten years. Before she started Foam she was the owner of Transworld, an international photo agency.

Marloes is member of the Supervisory Board of the Triodos Culture Fund, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Voordekunst, an online crowdfunding platform for cultural initiatives and a member of the Board of Advisors to the research Fellowship Patronage at the University of Utrecht. She has been on several juries, including the ICP Infinity Awards, Les Rencontres d’Arles, the Recontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako, the Albert Renger-Patzsch Award of the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. She is the Deputy Chairman of the Deutsche Börse Foundation.

Marloes Krijnen took part in several juries, the ICP Infinity Awards, Les Rencontres d’Arles, the Recontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako, the Albert Renger-Patzsch Award of the Museum Folkwang in Essen and the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.