Santiago Arcos Veintimilla reflects on Human Rights and Photography fellowship

“I had been working on La Ciénega for two years before I went to New York. I had a pretty clear idea of what I was trying to accomplish with this project. There is a huge problem going on worldwide of rural migration to the big cities and I wanted to show what is happening to the littles towns that all the people come from, and what is probably going to happen to lots of other little towns.

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Magnum Foundation at Twiliocon

Program Director, Emma Raynes participated in the panel discussion, ‘Interactive Art Installations: Communications Turning Viewers Into Participants’ at Twiliocon in San Francisco. Raynes discussed how MF supported project, SEE POTENTIAL utilizes new media tools and platforms to reach new audiences and inspire positive social change in the South Side of Chicago.

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#PhotoEx blog by Miki Johnson

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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Immigration debate: the 2006 US-Mexican border wall

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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