Cover photo by Hashem Shakeri / Courtesy of Aperture
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.
This timely issue of the magazine includes projects by Magnum Foundation grantees Hashem Shakeri, Gayatri Ganju, César Rodríguez, and M’hammed Kilito. Both Shakeri's and Ganju's projects were developed in Magnum Foundation's recent Heat Fellowship on visual storytelling about the climate crisis. Additional work from the Heat Fellowship will be on view during the event, as part of Magnum Foundation's current exhibition, Enduring Ecologies .
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Magnum Foundation
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
This event is co-hosted by Magnum Foundation and Aperture and will feature magazines for purchase. We are grateful to our neighbors at Creative Time for sharing their space with us for the evening. Thank you to our beverage sponsors for the evening, Lunar and Mai Vino.
Gayatri Ganju
About the magazine: The title of this edition of Aperture magazine references Bill McKibben's 1989 manifesto which alerted the world to global warming and how human intervention has altered nature’s cycles. Photographers have long celebrated nature, using the lens to investigate it as a realm of spiritual contemplation or aesthetic contemplation detached from people, providing perspective to the vulnerable position of humans, or turning the degradation of nature into spectacles which shock viewers out of their complacency. Almost four decades after McKibben's plea, “The End of Nature?” asks: how do contemporary photographers address ecological emergency?
Read more about the magazine here.
About the exhibit: Enduring Ecologies features works that bear witness to four communities transformed by environmental disruption. They 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. From the dried-up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Zumrad Mirzalieva portrays a former port town living in the wake of overextraction, still reverberating with the echoes of a lost sea. In Ghana, Ofoe Amegavie recalls learning how his grandfather’s home in the Volta River Basin was washed away by the ocean in the 1980’s. Following the upwards path of the river, he uncovers his country’s long history of environmental displacement. On the Bagerhat River in Bangladesh, rising salinity levels and persistent flooding are damaging women’s health, a process reflected in Farhana Satu’s eroded portraits. And along the Teesta river in Sikkim, northeast India, Kunga Tashi Lepcha honors the spiritual and ecological knowledge that has sustained his community’s decades-long resistance to the hydroelectric projects devastating their sacred lands.
Read more about the Magnum Foundation exhibition here.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. Masks are currently appreciated, but not required.
Magnum Foundation's 'Enduring Ecologies' exhibition is made possible the Rosenthal Family Foundation, the Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation. Magnum Foundation events are made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation and our Circle of Friends.
