MotherJones published in print images from Emily Schiffer’s Securing Food in Chicagoland in their July/August 2012 issue.
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One of the fundamental reasons for Magnum is the ownership of the work that we do: the copyright. That is to say that we only license what we do to people but we retain the rights to exploit our work in whichever way we see fit.
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Picture Beijing, and a skyline of fancy steel architecture and clouds of smog likely come to mind. But the most fitting metaphor for the city’s growing pains may lie beneath its streets: In the past two decades, underground storage basements, parking lots, and air-raid shelters have found new life as apartments, partitioned into untold thousands of cramped, windowless rooms.
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The Magnum Foundation is currently presenting two container installations at Brooklyn’s Photoville, both examining the meaning of ‘home.’ Be sure to check out Bruce Gilden’s container on Foreclosure in America and Sim Chi Yin’s container on Beijing’s Rat Tribe.
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Sim Chi Yin photographed Zu Shiming, the first Chinese boxing gold medalist for the 2008 Olympics.
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Remember World Refugee Day!
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Saiful Huq Omi, a photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, first focused on Burma’s Rohingya refugees in 2009, when he began documenting their lives in Bangladesh, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom.
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In Brazil, during the four centuries of tension and confrontation of classes in the slavery system, thousands of slaves escaped from the europeans plantations and created the quilombos.
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Due to the rapid economic growth and mass migration, many workers find themselves in cramped quarters in China’s metropolises. Sim Chi Yin covered the “Rat Tribe,” a derogatory label given to individuals living underground in Beijing’s old air-raid tunnels.
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Many Chinese citizens travel long distances to seek justice in Beijing courts. However, when they arrive many are unable to afford accommodation during their stay, sleeping outside until their day in court.
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To commemorate yesterday’s World Press Freedom Day we want to highlight the work of EF photographers who put their lives in danger to bring to light the stories that matter the most, especially in light of the worsening conditions in press freedom.
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Sim Chi Yin, 2010 HR Fellow, has published new photo essay, “Boxing for Burma."
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2011 HR Fellow Boniface Mwangi spoke at a TEDx Conference in Kibera on the political role photographers could play.
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Magnum Foundation’s Emergency Fund (EF) is proud to announce the launch of an initiative with Mother Jones to feature the work of Magnum Foundation EF photographers.
Manca Juvan, 2011 HR Fellow published Ordinary Lives, a collection of photographs taken in Afghanistan between 2003-2009.
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Read MoreMyanmar’s new government has shown signs of wanting to be less dependent on its old friend China. Myanmar suspended construction of a major dam–to be built near this river–last year amid outrage over what was seen as China’s imperious attitude toward Myanmar’s people and its environment.
In anticipation of the April 2012 elections, where Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy party is running for a seat in Parliament, Sim Chi Yin traveled to Myanmar to capture the beginnings of Myanmar’s promising new chapter...
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Value of Water event, hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! was a wonderful evening of readings, photography and film at St. John’s Cathedral.
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