Magnum Foundation Grantees featured in MOMA’s “New Photography: Lines of Belonging”
Lindokuhle Sobekwa infront of his work at the Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Anh Nguyen.
Congratulations to Magnum Foundation grantees Prasiit Sthapit, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Nepal Picture Library for being featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s new exhibition “New Photography: Lines of Belonging.” The show is on view from September 14, 2025 – January 17, 2026 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Prasiit Sthapit was a recipient of Counter Histories in 2022. His project Moonsongs for Earth was featured in Aperture’s Spring 2024 issue ‘Counter Histories’ and this video spotlight produced by Magnum Foundation. He was also a recipient of a grant from Magnum Foundation’s partnership with the World Monument Fund in 2022. His work, Change of Course which surrounds Susta, a village in Nepal, affected by the changing course of the Narayani River, long considered the border between Nepal and India, will be showing at the Museum of Modern Art, was supported by Magnum Foundation's Emergency Fund in 2016.
Abdul Ansari posing for a portrait. "What are you holding?" "A cat" "What's its name?" "Cat" Susta, Nawalparasi, Nepal. August 4, 2016. Photo by Prasiit Sthapit.
Arzoo Khatun, Grade 3. Susta, Nawalparasi, Nepal. Photo by Prasiit Sthapit.
Also featured in the show is Nepal Picture Library’s The Feminist Memory Project, a visual archive of women’s movements in Nepal — a project Magnum Foundation proudly supported in 2018. Through gathered archival photographs, ephemera, and oral histories from around Nepal that capture women in pivotal moments of Nepali history, it consolidates contributions made by pioneering figures who remain marginalized in our male dominated historiographies.
A mass meeting of former kamlaris (women bonded laborers) in Kanchanpur, Nepal (2010) from The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project, 2023. Photo from Nepal Picture Library.
Lindokuhle Sobekwa, a member of Magnum Photos, is also featured with his project Tell it to the Mountains — a collaborative installation about the meaning of home and belonging. Sobekwa was a grantee of Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Program in 2017, where he developed the project I carry Her photo with Me. In 2018, he received the Magnum Foundation Fund to continue with his long-term project Nyaope.
Photo by Lindokuhle Sobekwa.
We were delighted to see their projects showcased on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of MoMA’s celebrated New Photography series, showcasing artists who are expanding the horizons of the photographic field.