Magnum Foundation brought the Photography, Expanded initiative to the mountains of rural Virginia for the 2014 LOOKbetween Festival.
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Most of the seats on the daily buses from Flushing, Queens to the Sands casino in Bethlehem, PA are occupied by Korean and Chinese immigrants, many of whom do not even gamble.
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The globetrotting Magnum photographer is a cultural and style icon. Once a year these men and women gather in New York, Paris, or London to talk shop and swap stories. This year, to benefit the Magnum Foundation, they’re taking time out from their annual meeting to let you hear what’s usually discussed only behind closed doors.
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Looking ahead to the year’s third installment of Photography, Expanded programming, Creative Innovation and Digital Community: Art & Media on the Brink of Change, we thought we’d take the opportunity to reflect on two preceding labs and the catalyst for our programming.
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Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project has officially reached its funding goal!
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This week 2014 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grantee Oscar Castillo has taken over The New Yorker’s Instagram feed, posting photos from Caracas, Venezuela. Castillo is currently in the field working on his Emergency Fund project, Our War - Our Pain, building on his intimate examination of the city’s street gangs and culture of violence.
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Join 2010 MF Human Rights fellow Sim Chi Yin, a photographer based in China, for an evening of photos and discussion of her work documenting Chinese society.
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Crónica21 is a Spain-based photography archive built for the common interest in a time of deepening economic, political and social crisis. In an effort to inform and mobilize, the project continually feeds new and existing work to the people of Spain to begin answering a fundamental question: where can we go from here?
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Danube Revisited Seeking Regional Female Photographers
“We want to celebrate the women who dedicate their lives to documentary photography,” says Claire Martin in a recent TIME LightBox feature.
Learn more about the project and how to lend your support: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/308721393/danube-revisited-the-inge-morath-truck-project
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Today’s TIME LightBox feature on Danube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project showcases the project’s unique design to bring Inge Morath’s acclaimed Danube series back to the place of its origins while creating new work inspired by the communities living along the river.
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“I hope the people who are seeing these pictures will open their eyes and will think about how the war isn’t finished when troops go home, that people are suffering for decades on,” says German photojournalist Christian Werner in a recent feature on TIME LightBox.
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2013 Emergency Fund grantee Tanya Habjouqa will be exhibiting photographs from her project Occupied Pleasures at the East Wing Gallery in Dubai from May 20 - July 10, 2014. Habjouqa was awarded the EF grant to continue her work exploring everyday pleasures in the Occupied Palestinian Territories that arise in the face of encumbering political and economic conditions.
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This summer, nine past recipients of the annual grant given in the name of renowned Magnum photographer Inge Morath will embark on a journey to retrace her route through Central and Eastern Europe.
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The Photography, Expanded panel, “The Story of Data: Visualization, Mapping, and Photography,” is tomorrow. We are eager to hear from panelists Paolo Cirio, Jake Price, Harlo Homes, and Derek Watkins as well as moderator Stephen Mayes.
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Magnum Foundation is gearing up for the April 29th Photography, Expanded panel discussion, The Story of Data: Visualization, Mapping, and Photography, where we’ll explore how social-impact photography projects might employ the digital strategies found in data science, geography, journalism and critical design.
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Read MoreToday marks the one year anniversary of the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh. With the help of the Bangladesh Garment Sromik Samhoti, 2011 Human Rights Fellow Taslima Akhter has collected 84 portraits of the 146 victims never found.
Read More“With support from MF Emergency Fund, I am continuing work on my project about the causes and consequences of violence in Venezuela. My explorations of the current situation in Caracas, San Cristobal and other cities in Venezuela have helped me understand the close relationship between the everyday violence that stifles the country – the thousands of murders, robberies and kidnappings per year – and the rise of political extremism."
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.
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The 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.
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