New Exhibition “Enduring Ecologies” Highlights Four Projects on Communities Impacted by climate crisis
Work by Farhana Satu / Installation photo by Anh Nguyen.
Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Enduring Ecologies, a new exhibition in our New York City space featuring works that bear witness to four communities transformed by environmental disruption. They were developed in Magnum Foundation’s Photography Expanded: Heat Fellowship, which supports new photographic storytelling about the climate crisis and the inextricable relationship of communities to land.
From the dried-up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Zumrad Mirzalieva portrays a former port town living in the wake of overextraction, still reverberating with the echoes of a lost sea. In Ghana, Ofoe Amegavie recalls learning how his grandfather’s home in the Volta River Basin was washed away by the ocean in the 1980’s. Following the upwards path of the river, he uncovers his country’s long history of environmental displacement. On the Bagerhat River in Bangladesh, rising salinity levels and persistent flooding are damaging women’s health, a process reflected in Farhana Satu’s eroded portraits. And along the Teesta river in Sikkim, northeast India, Kunga Tashi Lepcha honors the spiritual and ecological knowledge that has sustained his community’s decades-long resistance to the hydroelectric projects devastating their sacred lands.
Across four bodies of water—each transformed by power, extraction, and the shadows of colonialism—these photographers honor the people and landscapes that, through it all, remain.
Opening Reception:
Thursday December 11, 2025 | 7 – 9 PM RSVP HERE
Location:
Magnum Foundation | 59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
Open Hours for Visitors:
Thursday, December 18, 2025 | 5-8PM
Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 5-8PM
Saturday, February 7, 2026 | 2-5PM
Thursday, March 19, 2026 | 5-8PM
Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 2-5PM
This exhibition is made possible the Rosenthal Family Foundation, the Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.
Magnum Foundation public programs are made possible by the Henry Nias Foundation and our Circle of Friends.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. Masks are currently appreciated, but not required.