Taslima Akhter, 2011 HR Fellow, was featured on the front page of The New York Times for her coverage in the recent garment fires in Bangladesh.
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The American Bar Association noted in 2010 that 84% of detained immigrants—including children and people with mental and physical disabilities—were going through the deportation process with no legal counsel.
Find out more information about the NY Immigrant Family Unity Project!
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The New York Times reported that over a 5-month period in 2012, there were 300 immigrants held in solitary confinement on any given day. Nearly 50% were isolated for 15 days or more, the point where psychiatric experts say they are at risk for severe mental harm and UN officials say constitutes torture.
Read Human Rights Watch’s new report to learn more about harmful impact of border prosecutions!
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Paul Hansen’s photograph that recently won the World Press Photo award as the picture of the year was apparently modified to increase its drama, a technique to make colors more vivid and saturated that seems to be becoming more widespread in photojournalistic circles.
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Applied Research Center estimates that there are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care whose parents have been either deported or detained.
Do you have questions about how family unity is being incorporated into the immigration bill? Raise your question here.
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Pete Pin, our first Emergency Fund Fellow in 2011, was featured on the NPR Pictures Show for his project “Cambodian Diaspora.” Read the whole interview here.
Congratulations to Pete for such an exciting month!
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Whereas traditional social documentary photography imagines the photographer’s role as bringing images from remote areas to a wider audience, many #PhotoEx projects begin and end with a small community, often documenting itself.
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For the month of May, Magnum Foundation will be showcasing work from the Magnum Photos archive to highlight issues in the immigration debate as part of our LA RUTA project.
Join March for Innovation to support reform that supports economic growth! #iMarch
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For the month of May, Magnum Foundation will be showcasing work from the Magnum Photos archive to highlight issues in the immigration debate as part of our La Ruta project. When Larry Towell was in Tijuana in 2006, he was documenting construction of the new U.S. border wall designed to keep out migrants. Today, the ACLU estimates that over 5,000 migrants have perished.
To get involved, sign up for updates from the Border Network for Human Rights or the ACLU!
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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.
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2012 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.
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For 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.
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La Ruta was featured in Le Journal de la Photographie on May 6, 2013.
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LA RUTA was featured in The Nation on April 30, 2013.
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La Ruta was featured in The New York Times, The Arts section on Saturday, April 27.
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According 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.
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At 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.
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“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.”
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