Magnum Foundation has partnered with the Arab Fund for Arts & Culture and the Prince Claus Fund to launch the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP). The focus of the ADPP is to support compelling non-stereotypical and unconventional visual documentation of important social issues and narratives relevant to the Arab region.
Read MoreThe Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund is proud to announce the recipients of the 2014 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 MoreHear from Emergency Fund Grantee and Magnum photographer, Larry Towell, on how the Magnum Foundation has been instrumental in advancing the work of documentary photographers.
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Emergency Fund Grantee, Evgenia Arbugaeva participated in the Magnum Foundation/Duke University’s Center for International Studies residency program.
Read MoreEric Gottesman’s latest work, ‘One Needs To Listen To The Characters One Creates’ explores and reinterprets the controversial Amharic novel ‘Oromaye’, by Baalu Girma.
Read MoreAround 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.
Read MoreTransnistria 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
Read MoreMagnum 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.
Read MoreEmergency Fund Grantee Philippe Dudouit will exhibit his work Cocaine Highways / Salvador Pass / Norther Niger at Paris Photo Nov. 14th - 17th.
Read MoreEver 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.
Read More“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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreLast 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.
Read MoreProgram 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.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation funded photographer Justin Maxon’s work, “Heaven’s Gain” is now on view at Photoville. If you’re in town check it out!
Read More2013 HR fellow, Santiago Arcos Veintimilla’s photo essay on the last town in Ecuador without children published in World Policy Journal.
Read MoreSEE 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.
Read MoreGiulio 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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