Fantastic work by 2013 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Fellow, Ruth Prieto Arenas. She is featured today on the NY Times LENS blog. Ruth’s work is also being exhibited at LA RUTA, a theatrical collaboration and photographic installation currently on view in Snug Harbor.
Read More2012 Magnum Foundation Photogaphy & Human Rights Fellow, Poulomi Basu’s work on rural women in India’s armed conflict awarded 2nd place in Foto visura grant.
Read MoreFor the month of May, Magnum Foundation will be showcasing work from the Magnum archive to highlight issues in the immigration debate as part of our LA RUTA project.
Read MoreLa Ruta was featured in Le Journal de la Photographie on May 6, 2013.
Read MoreLA RUTA was featured in The Nation on April 30, 2013.
Read MoreLa Ruta was featured in The New York Times, The Arts section on Saturday, April 27.
Read MoreAccording to the Center for American Progress, if undocumented workers were granted citizenship in 2013: The U.S. GDP would grow by $1.4 trillion and the economy would create an estimated 203,000 additional jobs per year over the next 10 years.
To call for a quick and direct path to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers in the U.S. this May Day go to:
http://reformimmigrationforamerica.org/#content-campaigns
Of all the revolutionary ideas shared last weekend, I was struck most by one that seemed to go without comment. Marcus Bleasdale mentioned that for him “photography is just an entry point,” a way for him to gather information about a situation.
Read MoreAt the Photography, Expanded event this weekend, seven photographers and their teams will share what they’ve learned by taking their documentary work beyond photography into the collaborative, multi-platform, sometimes chaotic future of storytelling.
Read More“In a world of billions of cameras, I’m not sure what ‘documentary photographer’ really means,” says Teru Kuwayama, who is well known for creating online community platforms including Lightstalkers and Basetrack. “We live in the most recorded era of human history, so photographers should ask themselves what value they add to a very densely populated ecosystem.”
Read MoreAlexis Lambrou, 2012 Emergency Fund Fellow, was published in New York Times Sunday Metropolitan section and featured on NYT Lens blog for her work “Teaching for Life.” Lambrou followed Ferrin Bujan, a young teacher at Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School and was curious to explore what it was like to be a 22-year-old teacher teaching 18-year-old students.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is proud to announce its collaboration with Working Theater in the presentation of Ed Cardona, Jr.’s world premiere play LA RUTA. This unique collaboration will illuminate and clarify some of the central issues within the current immigration reform debate through a theatrical performance and accompanying photo-based installation.
Read MoreLa Ruta, a theatrical experience staged inside a 48 ft smuggler’s trailer, follows the journey of several undocumented migrants across the border into the U.S.
Read MoreSim Chi Yin, 2010 HR Fellow, was featured in The New York Times Opinion section for her piece, “In China, a Vast Chasm Between the Rich and the Rest.”
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Bruce Gilden, 2010 EF photographer, was featured in New Yorker’s “Home Economics” print spread for his work on Foreclosures in America.
Read MoreChildren of Europe was co-produced by the MF Legacy program in relation to the current exhibition “We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933 1956 by Chim” at ICP and the publication “Chim: Children of Europe,” forthcoming from Umbrage Books. The video is edited and narrated by Carole Naggar.
Read MoreLiu 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreTaslima 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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