“You’re going to hear the word ‘impact’ a lot today,” said Amy Yenkin of the Open Society Foundations, beginning the weekend of rule breaking, standard-challenging and value-reinforcing ideas and conversations at the Magnum Foundation’s 2nd annual Photography, Expanded (PhotoEx) symposium with a call to action.
Read More“In 2013, Bulgaria started experiencing international migration flows like never before, suddenly finding around 11,000 refugees and asylum seekers within its borders in the space of just a few months. Caught completely unprepared for the crisis, the Bulgarian Government would define it as the greatest humanitarian emergency the country has faced in the last 90 years.
Read More“I even overheard policemen standing by the side of the road say ‘Oh look at that! Isn’t that beautiful? I wonder what that is all about,” recounts Ian Teh of the reactions to his 16 foot panoramic photograph depicting a mountain range in Qinghai, China as it was carried down Central Park West in the September 21 People’s Climate March.
Read MoreOur plane touched down in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. According to NATO figures, 10 tons of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition were dropped on Kosovo during NATO’s three month long intervention in 1999. Since information about the use of DU in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro is even more scarce, Kosovo seemed a good starting point for our research.
Read More”Since 2011, I have been documenting e-waste that is shipped from the western world to impoverished and under-developed regions of the world and the consequences of dumping and recycling it improperly in different countries.
Read More“As I exit the elevator on what must be the eleventh or twelfth floor, the scene is one of destruction. Fallen masonry, dust, glass, rubbish strewn everywhere. Abandonment.
Read MoreOn June 25, a whole slew of Magnum photographers put Annual General Meeting business aside and gathered at the Aperture Gallery to talk shop and share unknown stories to benefit the Magnum Foundation.
Read MoreThis August, Magnum Foundation, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and the Prince Claus Fund held the first workshop for the nine inaugural Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) grantees at the Dar Al-Mussawir in Beirut.
Read MoreLast week 2014 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grantee Laura Morton took over The New Yorker’s Instagram feed, posting photos from the San Francisco Bay Area where she is currently in the field working on her Emergency Fund project, Wild West Tech.
Read MoreWe’re gearing up for the second annual Photography, Expanded Symposium on October 18 at The New School. We hope you’ll join us in hearing from representatives of The Guardian, TIME, Instagram, Purpose and many more on the future of editorial and digital strategies for human rights campaigns.
Read More“It’s Monday morning and we get onto the bus at 8am as usual, but we notice something out of the ordinary: Ruby is sitting alone. "Where’s Ella Mae,” Ashley asks. “She called me last night to tell me she retired,” says Ruby. “They don’t need her no more.”
Read More“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.
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