Welcoming Ally Caple as Our Spring Magnum Foundation Fellow

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Image Credit: Ally Caple, from her work May I Speak Freely

Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Ally Caple as our newest Magnum Foundation Fellow. Throughout the Spring of 2022, Ally will split her time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing her project exploring the role of NYC public spaces in childhood development.

Ally Caple (b. 1995, New Haven County, Connecticut) is a photographer working and living in New York. Her practice revolves around care as labor and the multifaceted relationships that exist outside of heteronormative ways of thinking.

Drawing on her experiences working as a nanny and for a landscape architecture firm, Ally’s fellowship project will explore the critical role that New York City’s public parks and playgrounds play for childhood development and socialization, especially amid the coronavirus pandemic. As it is largely understood that socialization for children is deeply important to their development and learning, she hopes to consider spaces where kids can embrace freedom of movement without the obstacle of protocol. Ally is interested in creating work that is focused on formations of social behavior and the ways it collides with accessibility, circulation, and history in outdoor public spaces.

Ally shared, “I'm looking forward to the community engagement opportunities the MF fellowship will offer, both within my proposed project and the MF projects and programs. I hope to learn about image makers who are working in experimental documentary styles and the ways in which their practices relate to contemporary issues at large. While working with MF, I hope to gain feedback and insight in regards to my photographs and practice, and I hope to see my photographic style expand in new ways.”

The Magnum Foundation Fellowship offers mentorship and stipends to early-career practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as photographers. This fellowship is designed for New York City-based photographers to work in the Magnum Foundation office while also developing their own photographic project in the city that demonstrates a commitment to social issues and community based work. Learn more here.