At this year’s Photoville, Magnum Foundation is proud to exhibit three projects by Cheney Orr, Pablo Unzueta, and Elliott Ross.
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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.
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Congratulations to Yael Martínez on being the inaugural recipient of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Edelman Impact Award in Photography!
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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund and the Magnum Foundation are pleased to announce the ten photographers selected to participate in 12th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP).
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Ramona Jingru Wang and Roshni Khatri as our newest New York City Fellows. Throughout the Spring of 2026, Ramona and Roshni will split their time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing their NYC-based photographic projects.
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Congratulations to Harlan Bozeman and Fred Ritchin on receiving the Guggenheim Fellowship, the prestigious award given to “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form.”
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We are accepting applications for the Inge Morath Award, a $7,500 grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One finalist will also receive a $1,000 grant in support of their project. Submissions due by April 30, 2026.
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Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals from photographers and artists who engage with photography in the context of Puerto Rico and its diaspora, who would like to expand and complete a project that responds to this theme and who are excited to contribute to a creative community of fellows. Applications are due April 1, 2026.
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Magnum Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of a new multiyear initiative supporting photographic projects that engage with archives and collective memory of Puerto Rico and its diaspora.
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Building Dignified Worlds is a collaborative initiative developed by Magnum Foundation, FICA (Fundo Imobiliário Comunitário para Aluguel), and the Parsons Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab at The New School, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Democracy, Ethics, and Public Trust program.
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We're accepting applications for the Spring 2026 session of the New York City Fellowship, a program offering a project production grant, mentorship, and arts administration experience to NYC-based early-career photographers and photojournalists. Applications are due March 2, 2026.
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Congratulations to Laila Stevens, Zumrad Mirzalieva, and Ariel Goldberg for receiving the 2025-2026 NYSCA Support for Artists grants!
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In 2025, Magnum Foundation supported 95 photographers from 34 countries whose projects document fights for democracy and equality, uplift joy and resistance in communities at the margins, and shed light on human rights abuses worldwide. See below for highlights of the breadth of activity and achievements of our creative community in 2025. It is an honor to support their work.
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Our 2024-2025 Heat Fellowship focused on photography that expands discourse about heat and climate crisis. As increasingly urgent crises demand new paradigms for making and sharing images, this fellowship supported projects that reimagine what a critical and ecological photographic practice might look like.
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announced Enduring Ecologies, a new exhibition in our New York City space featuring works that bear witness to four communities transformed by environmental disruption.
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This year’s Heat Fellowship included two in-person workshops in Oaxaca, Mexico, produced in partnership with Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa). Grounded in somatic and ecological practices, fellows worked with mentors to deepen and expand their projects, while also connecting with the Oaxaca photographic community and climate-related projects in the region.
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Congratulations to Magnum Foundation grantees Heba Khalifa, Mahmoud Khattab, Soumya Sankar Bose and Jorge Panchoaga for making the Paris Photo-Aperture’s 2025 PhotoBook Awards shortlist.
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Congratulations to Matt Black and Tonika Lewis Johnson on receiving MacArthur Fellowships!
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In collaboration with The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Prince Claus Fund (PCF), we are pleased to open applications for the 12th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program. Applications are due December 10, 2025!
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Congratulations to Magnum Foundation grantees Prasiit Sthatpit, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Nepal Picture Library for being featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging.”
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