As we look ahead to a new year, we are taking stock of the incredible breadth of activity and achievements of our creative community in 2022. Thank you for your partnership in keeping us engaged, informed, and connected.
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Now available for order, Protest City: Portland’s Summer of Rage brings together Rian Dundon’s 2020 documentation of racial justice uprisings and violent police backlash on Portland streets.
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Now available for pre-order, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn’s We Are Present: 2020 in Portraits is a year-long visual account of love, grief, vulnerability, creativity, isolation, communion, determination and faith braided within its narrative.
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We're excited to share the latest projects produced in the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP), a joint initiative with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund, and Magnum Foundation. See the projects now on the program’s Arabic-English website.
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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us for the opening of An Expression of Absence: Selections from the Arab Documentary Photography Program at the Magnum Foundation and Bronx Documentary Center! Check out photos from both opening nights. Exhibit is open through December 18.
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Sean Sirota as our newest Magnum Foundation Fellow. Throughout the Fall of 2022, Sean will split his time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing his project focusing on a politically divided Southern Brooklyn, where he was born and raised.
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World Monuments Fund and Magnum Foundation announce a unique global collaboration aimed at showcasing the talents of emerging, local photographers as they tell the stories of cultural heritage sites from the perspectives of local stakeholders.
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Magnum Foundation and the Bronx Documentary Center present An Expression of Absence: Selections from the Arab Documentary Photography Program—on view at both the Magnum Foundation and the Bronx Documentary Center Oct 28 - Dec 18.
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Now available for pre-order, Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa is edited by the renowned artist, curator, writer, and editor Julie Ault, and brings together essential writings by the art historian and curator Karin Higa (1966–2013)
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Shop the Magnum Square Print Sale to support Magnum Foundation’s emerging talent around the world. Sale ends Sunday, October 23.
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Congratulations to all the Magnum Foundation grantees past and present who are shortlisted for the 2022 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards!
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Congratulations to Counter Histories grantee Marilyn Nance whose book Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos was released last week! Read more about the landmark project in The New York Times.
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The ninth cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) got off to a great start last week! The cohort of twelve outstanding photographers worked with mentors Eric Gottesman, Tanya Habjouqa, Elsie Haddad, Randa Shaath, Abdo Shanan, and Peter van Agtmael to initiate their months-long project explorations.
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Aperture and Magnum Foundation invite you to apply to Looking Together: An Educator Workshop. The workshop is designed for new and experienced photography educators to create and interpret meaningful images. Participants will decode and encode photographs, learning how to interpret them, using flexible, engaging inquiry techniques that are accessible to students of all levels. Apply by September 16!
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Magnum Foundation, Magnum Photos, and the Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce Johis Alarcón as the recipient of the 2022 Inge Morath Award, and Spandita Malik as the finalist. They'll each receive a production grant to support a long-term documentary project.
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We're accepting applications for the fall 2022 session of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship, a program offering stipends, mentorship, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers. Apply by September 15, 2022!
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As Ally Caple’s Spring Magnum Foundation Fellowship wrapped up, intern Samaira Wilson caught up with her to discuss the latest developments in her photo project, learnings from her time working on Magnum Foundation’s programs, and her thoughts on photography’s relationship to surveillance and safety.
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This week, Ukrainian Fulbright Student and photojournalist Irynka Hromotska wrapped up her summer internship at Magnum Foundation. She shares some of her project images, as well as her thoughts on photography and representation.
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Alongside The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund, we are pleased to announce twelve new projects to be supported as part of the ninth cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program.
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This summer, Magnum Foundation is supporting photographic projects on health equity in the United States, to be published in The Atlantic with support from The Commonwealth Fund. Applications are due July 19.
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