looking back at 2019
We trained 9 Photography and Social Justice Fellows from around the world.
Partnering with CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, nine early career photographers, artists, journalists, and activists received specialized training and support for new approaches to socially engaged documentary practice.
We made 16 new production grants to bring creative and nuanced stories to light.
Brendan Hoffman
This year’s production grants represent direct support for innovative, socially engaged, and independent storytelling by diverse makers, made possible through collaborations with allied partners like the Henry Luce Foundation, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and the American Jewish World Service.
We saw 7 projects from the Middle East + North Africa completed, and 9 more seeded for this coming year.
Ravy Shaker
The Arab Documentary Photography Program is a joint initiative with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund. In the last five years, we have supported fifty photographers from and working in the Middle East and North Africa to produce independent stories.
We held over 10 workshops and community gatherings.
Cinthya Santos Briones, Miranda Barnes, Mengwen Cao, and Groana Melendez
We held a series of labs for imagemakers to experiment with new approaches to visual storytelling in partnership with NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, A Blade of Grass, and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
We brought photography into public spaces.
Billboard featuring a 1989 photograph by Susan Meiselas of the 2:00 a.m. arrest and documentation of twelve-year-old boy in Imperial Beach, CA
We installed photographic billboards to the exterior of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in partnership with For Freedoms, hosted conversations at CultureHub’s annual festival around art and technology, and celebrated Lower East Side History month at Overthrow, an East Village boxing gym that has roots as a counter cultural epicenter.
Thank you for a year of creativity and expansion!
Some of the Magnum Foundation team with board member Eli Reed and photographer Paolo Pellegrin
Photography and Social Justice Fellows gather and present their projects at Magnum Foundation
Magnum Foundation Fellow Mengwen Cao’s project Here We Are at CultureHub NYC
Mentor Tanya Habjouqa working with grantees in Beirut at the Arab Documentary Photography Program workshop
Participants at the Reframing Photography and Education Lab
Photography and Social Justice fellows at the Nat Geo Summit
We are honored to advance the work of courageous photographers around the world. Your support makes it possible to challenge dominant narratives and pioneer new models for impactful storytelling.