2011 Emerging Photographer Award Winner Irina Werning from "Back to the Future"

2012 Inge Morath Award Winner Isadora Kosofsky from "The This Existence."

AWARDS

The Magnum Foundation currently makes two awards annually to young photographers who are documenting issues of public concern. Both awards are open competitions, in which panels of professional photographers select the recipients. These awards do more than recognize and support new talent; showcasing remarkable work by young practitioners demonstrates the enduring power of documentary photography.

Inge Morath Award

The award and $5,000 prize is given by the Magnum Foundation, in cooperation with the IM Foundation, to a female photographer under the age of 30, to support the completion of a long-term documetary project.

Each June, the winner of the Inge Morath Award is selected by the full membership of Magnum Photos and the Director of the Inge Morath Foundation during the annual Magnum meeting.
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Emerging Photographer Award

This award and $10,000 prize supports ongoing work by a young documentary photographer nominated by the online BURN Magazine community.

Caucasus Award (2009-2011)

The Foundation established this $5,000 prize to support a long-term documentary project by a photographer under the age of 33 living in the Transcaucasus or the Caucasian republics of the Russian Federation. The award was active for the years 2009 through 2011.