Welcome Spring New York City Fellows Ramona Jingru Wang and Roshni Khatri
Ainura's Family, 2024. Photo by Ramona Jingru Wang.
Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Ramona Jingru Wang and Roshni Khatri as our newest New York City Fellows. Since 2011, Magnum Foundation’s New York City Fellowship has provided a launchpad for early-career photographers living and working in New York City. Recognizing the challenges of making a living as a working photographer, this fellowship continues to serve a unique dual purpose: supporting the development of the fellows’ photographic projects, while also providing them with paid work experience in Magnum Foundation’s office.
This year, as part of a new partnership with Working Assumptions, Magnum Foundation expanded the Spring Fellowship from one to two fellows, to support an additional photographer whose work focuses on themes of care, family, and interdependent relationships in communities.
Supported by Working Assumptions, Ramona’s project We Carry Each Other Home explores how care functions within intergenerational Cantonese immigrant families in New York City, both as a personal or emotional act, and as a structure shaped by migration, labor, and access to resources. On receiving the fellowship, Ramona shared: “Receiving this grant is incredibly meaningful to me. The project I’m proposing is very personal both in terms of my background and the community it focuses on, so having the support to develop it in a thoughtful, sustained way means a lot."
Roshni’s project Punjab Avenue, New York centers on intergenerational Sikh life in Richmond Hill, Queens. “I’m excited to work alongside and learn from the team at Magnum Foundation, and to gain hands-on experience through the program,” said Roshni. “Being part of a space that encourages engaged documentary practice feels deeply meaningful at this stage in my work.”
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.
A warm welcome to both!
Anna and Stoker, 2023. Photo by Ramona Jingru Wang.
About Ramona Jingru Wang:
Ramona Jingru Wang is a lens-based artist based on the internet and New York. Her work explores how images intervene with our reality and create connections among people and space, investigating how we care for each other through photographs. She studied at the International Center of Photography-Bard College, and graduated with an MFA in photography from the Pratt Institute, New York.
We Carry Each Other Home is a project about intergenerational Cantonese immigrant families in New York City. “I am Cantonese and grew up in Guangzhou, a region that shaped one of the earliest and most foundational Chinese migrations to the United States. Cantonese-speaking laborers were central to building the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s and later became the first group targeted by a federal immigration ban under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. This project situates contemporary family life in New York’s Cantonese community within that longer lineage of labor, exclusion, and survival. Working with three to four families in Manhattan Chinatown, Sunset Park, and Flushing, I will document everyday practices of care framing intergenerational care as the living infrastructure that continues to sustain a community that has long been essential to the making of the United States.”
Ramneek Singh, originally from North India, speaks Punjabi and lives in New Jersey, 2023. Photo by Roshni Khatri.
About Roshni khatri:
Roshni Khatri is a documentary photographer based between New York and New Delhi. Her practice examines identity, culture, and gender within everyday life, with a focus on how communities are represented and positioned within public discourse. She was raised in New Delhi and studied documentary photography at the International Center of Photography. She is also a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo.
Roshni’s project Punjab Avenue, New York is centered on Sikh families living in Richmond Hill, Queens, where a stretch of 101st Avenue was co-named to recognize the neighborhood’s Punjabi community. This project asks what that presence looks like inside homes, inside gurdwaras, and on the street.
The New York City Fellowship is a program offering a project production grant, mentorship, and arts administration experience to NYC-based early-career photographers and photojournalists. This fellowship is designed for early-career photographers looking for an opportunity to deepen, expand, and complete a New York City based project that speaks to social issues in NYC communities. In addition to producing a project, fellows gain arts administration by spending two days a week working in the Magnum Foundation office. Learn more here.
The New York City Fellowship is made possible with the support of the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, Select Equity Group Foundation, and Working Assumptions.