I am amazed at how much people genuinely want to talk about this history. Many times it’s the first thing they tell me when I enter a home. I have realized that, for some people, it’s not that this history has been suppressed, but rather — for a multitude of reasons — there lacks a catalyst for this dialogue.
-On September 14, 2012, Pete Pin was featured on the Asia Society blog for his project The Cambodian Diaspora.
Read MoreBetween 1975-1979, 1.7 million Cambodians—a third of the country’s population— perished during the Killing Fields, one of the most horrific state-sponsored genocides of the twentieth century. In the years since, over 150,000 Cambodians displaced in refugee camps along the Thai-Cambodian border resettled in the United States.
Read MoreThis year at the International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan, Justin Jin, 2011 EF photographer, exhibited, “Zone of Absolute Discomfort” on the advance and retreat in Russia’s Arctic at Perpignan.
Read MoreViva Favela has been publishing visual stories that reflect the lives of Rio’s favela communities to bridge the gap of digital exclusions in the favelas. The book includes essays by Pete Lucas and images by the favela community in Rio.
Read MoreCongratulations to Boniface Mwangi, 2011 HR Fellow, for being awarded the prestigious 2012 Prince Claus Award for his exemplary photo activism.
Read MoreSim Chi Yin, 2010 HR Fellow, produced her first video piece, “The Last Journey” about two brothers who lost their parents in the high-speed train crash in China which killed 40 and injured 191 passengers.
Read MoreLife magazine was fundamental to the concept of promoting journalism in a photographic way, covering major stories with more space diverted to pictures than to words
Read MoreIn the fall of 2010, photographer Pete Pin devised a makeshift portrait studio in his grandmother’s garage in Stockton, California. As he photographed her, she recounted the details of her family’s experience in Cambodia during the regime of the Khmer Rouge.
Read MoreThe Magnum Foundation participated in Photoville, a seven-day photography festival on the Brooklyn Waterfront.
Read MoreI mean we will be restructured but I don’t know whether the restructure is radical enough. I think we need to have less people, we need to be more independent, I think the days where photographers say ‘this is what I want to do, I come to the Magnum office and I try and get people to help me’ are gone.
Read MoreSim Chi Yin’s photography series, Rat Tribe, examines the underground dwellings of low-income workers in Beijing, China.
Read MoreI met several photographers and they all gave me advice as to how Magnum worked and what I should do, but the one piece of advice I always remember was from Elliott Erwitt.
Read MoreMagnum is a historial phenomenon, I mean very rarely things like this happen and therefore they are worth studying.
Read MoreFor the next week, EF 2012 photographer Ben Lowy will be providing Storyboard with exclusive images from his hipstamatic lens from his project iLibya.
Read MoreIntroducing “Projects We Love,” an ongoing feature of exceptional projects in the human rights and photography field.
Read MoreIn July 2012, 2011 EF photographer Zalmai and Human Rights Watch partnered to produce “Hate on the Streets, Xenophobic Violence in Greece.”
Read MoreMagnum photographer John Vink has just released new iPad app for his decade long documentary of Cambodian land issues. This app beautifully integrates reports, articles, and 700 images to create a comprehensive history of the complex Cambodian struggle for land.
Read MoreThe Magnum Foundation presented two exhibitions examining the meaning of home, featuring EF grantee Bruce Gilden and HR fellow Sim Chi Yin.
Read MoreSouth 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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