On Thursday, October 1, Maheder Haileselassie will present her project Endinastawis Anirsa in conversation with writer Maaza Mengiste, followed by time for audience questions and feedback.
Join Magnum Foundation and the New York Immigration Coalition on Tuesday, September 22 and Thursday, September 24 for two evenings of visual storytelling and conversation about the urgent, interconnected issues of climate crisis and migration.
On Wednesday, September 16, photographer Jess T. Dugan will be in conversation with Charlotte Cotton and Kristen Lubben for the book launch of Love Pictures at Magnum Foundation.
As part of the exhibition Living in Sanctuary at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, artist Cinthya Santos-Briones and scholar Michelle Castañeda, author of Disappearing Rooms, will engage in a conversation on migration, sanctuary, and the role of art in a political climate shaped by increasingly restrictive immigration policies. The conversation will be moderated by Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now!
As part of her solo exhibition Living in Sanctuary at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York, artist Cinthya Santos-Briones invites you to participate in collective embroidery workshops and stitching circles which explore contemporary narratives of migration in the United States.
Magnum Foundation Fellow Andrea Hernández Briceño’s Fire Becomes Spirit opens on Wednesday, June 24 in the ICP Incubator Space. The project was developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat fellowship.
Join KGP MONOLITH and Magnum Foundation to celebrate the release of Lost V, a new set of eight monographs from artists working around the world. The artists will be present for book signing, including Magnum Foundation grantees Elliot Ross and Sara Hylton.
See you opening night at Photoville! This year we are proud to present three grantee projects, all located in Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza, including Tracing Memory, featuring work by Cheney Orr, Asthma Boulevard, featuring work by Pablo Unzueta, and A Question of Balance, featuring work by Elliot Ross.
A conversation with photographers Sydney Ellison, Brooklynn Kascel, Cheney Orr, and Pablo Unzueta, presented by Magnum Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and Photoville.
Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Twin Cities: Held Together, an exhibition featuring works by Minnesota photographers presented at the International Center of Photography for the duration of the 2026 Photobook Festival.
Magnum Foundation and Aperture are delighted to come together in honor of "The End of Nature?," the Spring 2026 issue of Aperture magazine highlighting the ways contemporary photographers are addressing ecological emergencies worldwide.
The works featured in this exhibition were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land.
Interested in applying to Counter Histories Puerto Rico? Have questions? Join a virtual Q&A session with our programs team. The webinar will be recorded and posted after the event for those unable to attend.
Magnum Foundation in collaboration with ICP and The Judith Center presents Beyond Violence:The Impact of Evolving Technologies in Wartime Photography, a lecture by renowned Ukrainian curator Kateryna Radchenko.
This exhibition brings together five photographers documenting the many ways in which communities in Latin America are building dignified alternative housing models.
Magnum Foundation and 10×10 present a salon with Isadora Romero and Sofía Granados Dyer on Wednesday, February 18 from 6 to 8PM.
The works featured in this exhibition were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land.
Kristen Lubben, Executive Director of Magnum Foundation, will be giving a talk at Toronto Metropolitan University's The Image Centre, as part of The Tanenbaum Lecture Series. Lubben will explore the role of photography, archives, and public memory, and discuss the work of the Magnum Foundation.
The works featured in this exhibition were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land.
The works featured in this exhibition were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land.
As we close out 2025, we hope you can join us for an end-of-year event celebrating Magnum Foundation’s global community of visual storytellers. This celebration will feature a new exhibition of work from our Heat Fellowship, curated grantee books and zines for browsing, a special pop-up portrait studio by local NYC grantees, and more!
In collaboration with Magnum Foundation, the Photography Mentorship Program (PMP) at Bard College is hosting a symposium around photography, surveillance, and archives.
Last chance to see our show “A Tapestry of Aliveness” — including works from the last thirteen years of our New York City Fellowship!
Aperture, in collaboration with the Photography Program at Parsons School of Design at the New School, is pleased to present a conversation between artist Susan Meiselas and the director of Magnum Foundation, Kristen Lubben, discussing the book Nicaragua.
A conversation at MacDowell New York with archaeologist Nam Kim (University of Wisconsin–Madison), curator and archivist Kristen Lubben (Magnum Foundation), and artist Accra Shepp (MacDowell), moderated by Sean Buffington (Henry Luce Foundation). They will explore the impact of archives and photography on public memory and interrogate the limitations and importance of importance of safeguarding the documentary record.
Magnum Foundation invites you to an evening with Bieke Depoorter, Magnum Photographer, in honor of her latest photobook, Blinked Myself Awake. Depoorter will read a selection of excerpts from the book before being joined in conversation with writer and artist, Gideon Jacobs who served as an editor for the publication.
Magnum Foundation invites you to an intimate gathering with photographer Prasiit Sthapit on the occasion of his work being featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s “New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging” show, on view from September 14, 2025 – January 17, 2026.
Please join us for an artist talk and conversation celebrating the launch of Betty Yu’s new art and photography book, Family Amnesia: Chinese American Resilience. Co-hosted by Magnum Foundation and Daylight Books, the evening will begin with a short reading by Betty Yu, the artist will then be joined by Rochelle Kwan for a conversation about the uncovering of family roots and the intergenerational memory work.
Magnum Foundation invites you to an evening with Yael Martínez, Magnum Photographer and longtime Magnum Foundation grantee, in honor of his new photobook, Luciérnagas. Martínez will be joined in conversation with scholar Dr. Oswaldo Zavala, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the City University of New York (CUNY). Books will be available for purchase, with a reception following the conversation. This event is presented in conjunction with Magnum Photos, CUNY Mexican Studies Institute, and This Book Is True.
As we close out 2024, join us for our end-of-year event celebrating our global community of visual storytellers. The evening will also mark the opening of "A Tapestry of Aliveness," a new exhibition of work from our NYC Fellowship.
