“Generally I pride myself on being able to become a fly on the wall when I’m working, but while photographing a tech industry networking event recently things changed. This large and boisterous affair took over several floors of a downtown hotel and was filled with energetic start-up entrepreneurs."
Read MoreEmergency Fund Grantee Allesandro Penso recently had a gallery of photographs published by MSF (Doctors without Borders) from his ongoing work in Bulgaria documenting asylum seekers. He received an Emergency Fund grant in 2014 to continue his work documenting the impact the Dublin II Regulation has had on asylum seekers in Europe, and is currently working in Bulgaria.
Read MoreFriends in Asmara told me that if I ever want to return I should go home and write something nice about Eritrea. But how could I top what Baalu Girma has already written?
Read MoreCongratulations to 2013 EF Grantee Mari Batashevski, recently nominated for the first edition of Lausanne’s Prix Elysee for her MF supported work State Business.
Read MoreThe Magnum Photos 67th Annual General Meeting brought together the agency’s staff, estates and photographers – many of whom participated in our Secrets benefit! We’re delighted with the news that 2010 Emergency Fund Grantee Sohrab Hura is Magnum’s newest nominee.
Read MoreThe Asian Pride Project presents Our Portraits, Our Families, a groundbreaking group photography exhibition that visualizes and promotes “the realization of love and understanding in our families, as a way to undo culturally ingrained bias.”
Read MoreMagnum Foundation brought the Photography, Expanded initiative to the mountains of rural Virginia for the 2014 LOOKbetween Festival.
Read MoreMost 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreLooking 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.
Read MoreDanube Revisited: The Inge Morath Truck Project has officially reached its funding goal!
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreJoin 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.
Read MoreCrónica21 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?
Read MoreDanube 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
Read MoreToday’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.
Read More“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.
Read More2013 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThe 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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