Liu Jie, 2012 Human Rights Fellow, was featured in TIME Lightbox on February 5, 2013. Jie visited more than 20 Chinese villages to document the separation of rural families due to the country’s rapid urbanization.
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The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund is proud to announce the recipients of the 2013 EF grants. The fund began in 2009 and grants photographers from around the world to support anticipatory work that sheds light on under-reported issues and communities.
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Taslima Akhter, 2011 Human Rights Fellow, arrived at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory fire four hours after the fire tore through the building. Her story was featured on Lens blog on November 29.
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Karen Mirzoyan, EF 2010 photographer, was published in Reporters Without Borders for his project Unrecognized Islands of Caucusus.
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Teun Voeten, EF 2011 photographer, was written in Huffington Post’s blog for his EF-funded project Narco Estado.
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I remember when Gueorgui Pinkhassov walked into the office one day. Nobody knew him. He came in. At the time he didn’t speak very good French and he said, “I have these photos. They are important. You must show them, you must have them, you must sell them!”
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Magnum Foundation distributes nearly $100,000 annual to new generation of visual creators. Learn about the scope and history of Magnum Foundation.
India’s promises poor rural households a hundred days’ employment a year, but honoring that pledge is an enormous challenge.
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Boniface Mwangi, 2011 Human Rights Fellow, was featured on Al Jazeera’s Activist’s page.
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Manca Juvan, 2011 HR Fellow, was featured in Fotoreportaza for her story Maternity in Slovenia. The project was one of five selected for the new initiative What Works by Magnum Foundation, which will be launching this fall/winter.
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Ben Lowy’s iLibya was featured in MotherJones as part of the MotherJones-Magnum foundation partnership
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Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro presents a large exhibition of Werner Bischof. The show is curated by his son Marco Bischof, the head of the MagnumTime project at Magnum Foundation.
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Living in London in 1972, I discovered the power of colour television, which was much more important than in the rest of Europe.
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Poulomi Basu, 2012 HR Fellow, was featured in the Lens blog, “On India’s Border, a Changing of Guards."
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Magnum Foundation participated in Photoville, a seven-day photography festival on the Brooklyn Waterfront. MF transformed two shipping containers into unique home-like galleries to enforce the project themes featured in Bruce Gilden’s No Place Like Home and Sim Chi Yin’s Rat Tribe.
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Greece is the primary gateway to migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East seeking residence in Europe. Athens is home to approximately 1 million illegal immigrants, and over 130,000 people entered the country illegally in 2011.
Magnum Foundation will present a series of events in NYC this weekend, encouraging a larger conversation about this under reported human rights crisis.
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At the end of the day, I really have confidence in myself because I think that I can actually be proud of what I have done, considering from where I started. And it is not being arrogant.
MagnumTime interview in New York, NY 2011
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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.
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Between 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.
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This 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.
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