The Magnum Foundation presented two exhibitions examining the meaning of home, featuring EF grantee Bruce Gilden and HR fellow Sim Chi Yin.
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South Sudan came into being a year ago but remains fragile today: It is rife with violent conflict and corruption, and sorely lacks infrastructure.
I don’t think anybody at Magnum sort of thinks ‘oh because my photography is great it’s gonna change the world per se”; but I think everybody believes that their photography is worth something and you know that it might affect individuals in certain ways and I think we probably all got experiences of it doing that to some extent.
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Isadora Kosofsky (US) is the recipient of the 2012 IM Award for her proposal Selections from “The Three” and “This Existence.” The finalists for the IM Award were Maria Pleshkova (RU), for her project Days of War: A Pillowbook, and Carlotta Zarattini (IT), for her project The White Building.
In support of Van Houtryve’s upcoming book of same name, VII Gallery presents “Behind the Curtain of Twenty-First Century Communism,” a body of work resulting from seven years spent documenting the world’s existing communist states.
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“Tanya, her sister Olga, and I at the abandoned TV antenna just a little outside of the town. This is a very cold and quiet night, so quiet that our crunchy steps on the snow feel like an intervention.”
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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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