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.
Read MoreMagnum 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreCongratulations 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.
Read MoreCongratulations to Matt Black and Tonika Lewis Johnson on receiving MacArthur Fellowships!
Read MoreIn 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!
Read MoreCongratulations 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.”
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is pleased to announce Mika Simoncelli and Walaa Yassien as our newest New York City Fellows. Throughout the Fall of 2025, Mika and Walaa will split their time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing their NYC-based photographic projects.
Read MoreWe are pleased to share the launch of Tace Stevens’ We Were Just Little Boys, a new publication from Tall Poppy Press that shines a light on the stories of the Survivors of Kinchela Boys Home in Australia.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation, Magnum Photos, and the Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce Somaya Abdelrahman as the recipient of this year’s Inge Morath Award. Abdelrahman will receive a $7,500 production grant to support the completion of her project, Tired Souls Seeking Home.
Read MoreWe're accepting applications for the Fall 2025 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 August 15th, 2025.
Read MoreCongratulations to the Magnum Foundation alums who are featured at this summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photo festival! We were delighted to see their projects showcased and to gather with so many past grantees and fellows.
Read MoreThe Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), the Prince Claus Fund (PCF), and Magnum Foundation are pleased to announce that the projects completed in the 10th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program can now be viewed on the program’s Arabic-English website.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation, in collaboration with Francisco Toledo A.C. and Centro de las Artes de San Agustin (CaSa), is pleased to announce grants to Adriana Chávez and Julio Barrita, two Oaxaca-based photographers working on climate-related projects in the region.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is thrilled to be back at this year’s Photoville festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park, where we will be featuring our Heritage in Focus exhibition in partnership with the World Monuments Fund.
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the six photographers selected for the 2025 Arab Documentary Photography Program Alumni Fellowship, a joint initiative of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund and the Magnum Foundation, in association with For Freedoms.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is pleased to announce the participants in our 2025 Counter Histories Fellowship supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with urgent questions of the present and future.
Read MoreCongratulations to the three Magnum Foundation fellows recognized by this year's World Press Photo awards.
Read MorePublished this week in The Atlantic with support from the Magnum Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund for a series on health equity in the United Sates, Cheney Orr’s visual reporting highlights the ways dementia looms over a Texas county, where many with the condition are cared for at home.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is pleased to announce Anh Nguyen as our newest New York City Fellow. Throughout the Spring of 2025, Anh will split time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing her project exploring the 50th anniversary of the beginning of mass Vietnamese immigration to the U.S.
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