Around 2 AM among the many dead bodies inside the collapse, I found a couple at the back of the building, embracing each other in the rubble. The lower parts of their bodies were stuck under the concrete.
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Transnistria for me was more of a personal project. I was born in that place and attended school there.
-Ramin Mazur, Moldova, 2013 Human Rights Fellow
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Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund was invited to participate in the Lishui International Photography Festival in Lishui, China. Yue Ren, a Beijing-based curator, writer, and educator curated the Useful Photography exhibit which included an installation that represented the global range of projects that Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund supports.
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Emergency Fund Grantee Philippe Dudouit will exhibit his work Cocaine Highways / Salvador Pass / Norther Niger at Paris Photo Nov. 14th - 17th.
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Ever wanted to add interactive elements to your storytelling, but don’t know how to code? Tribeca Film Institute is pairing with the folks at Racontr for a two-day workshop to teach storytellers from all disciplines the benefits of the code-free platform, Racontr.
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“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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The Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce five Human Rights Fellowships for the fifth year of its summer program, Photography and Human Rights at the Department of Photography & Imaging of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, led by Professor Fred Ritchin and Susan Meiselas, Magnum photographer and President of Magnum Foundation.
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Last Witnesses: Memories of internment in Italian Fascist Concentration Camps is a project by 2011 Human Rights Fellow Manca Juvan exploring the preservation of memory of the internment in Italian fascist concentration camps in years 1942 and 1943.
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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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Magnum Foundation funded photographer Justin Maxon’s work, “Heaven’s Gain” is now on view at Photoville. If you’re in town check it out!
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2013 HR fellow, Santiago Arcos Veintimilla’s photo essay on the last town in Ecuador without children published in World Policy Journal.
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SEE POTENTIAL a collaboration between Magnum Foundation, Center for Urban Transformation, and EF grantee Emily Schiffer, launched its second installation in the South Side of Chicago at the Bronzeville Community Garden.
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Giulio Piscitell was featured on the front page of International Herald Tribune on June 5, 2013 for his work on the EF-funded project From Here to There.
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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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