Thursday evening marked the culmination of a pilot program launched this fall in partnership with the New York Public Library. Twice a week, Magnum Foundation Fellows Alexis Lambrou, Pete Pin and Aleksandra Kononiuk gathered at the Columbus Branch Library to mentor high school students participating in the NYPL Innovation Labs to obtain needed school credit.
Read More2014 Magnum Foundation Fellow Rahima Gambo is back in Nigeria, and in her childhood region, where Boko Haram is is violently separating families and driving thousands away from their homes.
Read MoreToday marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the War in Chechnya, fought from 1994-1996.
Read More2011 Human Rights Fellow Boniface Mwangi was just named one of the 2014 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine.
Read MoreToday marks World AIDS Day 2014, the first ever global health day established in 1988. We applaud those working to shed light on the many cultural, scientific and social justice facets of the HIV pandemic.
“To a Brazilian photographer, who had never been in the US, to explore New York looking for human rights issues was a potent mix of adrenaline and responsibility. The challenge was to conceive, execute and present a project in New York in a few weeks."
Read MoreIn one day, the 2nd annual Photography, Expanded symposium covered topics and raised issues that an entire industry has undoubtedly been grappling with for years.
Read MoreVisiting New York for the first time as a Human Rights Fellow, Sumeja Tulic developed a conceptual travel guide with advice, safety tips, and insights gleaned from interviews with dozens of women describing their daily experiences and encounters with discrimination while wearing the hijab in New York.
Read More“Being in Magnum Foundation’s Photography & Human Rights program was a big success for me for many different reasons. As a self-taught photographer, I have been following my own instincts in photography. The fellowship proved to me that I’ve been on the right path and finally I could get the answers to my unanswered questions."
Read MoreCheck out IndyKids reporter Ana Phelan’s interview with Emergency Fund Grantee Ian Teh at his installation at Photoville this September.
Read MoreThe future of photography is difficult to predict, making the future of the editorial platforms where photography can live nearly impossible to pin down.
Read MoreIf the photographers, filmmakers, visual artists, activists and advocates who presented their work at PhotoEx are bonded by any one goal, it is the desire to create and inspire change. But in the quest to address complicated and oftentimes painful issues, difficult hurtles arise that compel these dedicated visual storytellers to consider new creative methods.
Read MoreIt’s mostly driving 200-300km per day. I pay a short visit, have a brief talk, take a picture and I move on.
Read More“Life here was already hard enough before so many Syrian refugees came,” laments Zeinab, a seamstress in Shatila Camp who had been a friend of mine since the summer of 2012.
Read More“I’m an Egyptian photojournalist currently covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia after covering it in Sierra Leone for a few weeks. I work for Anadolu Agency.
Read More“This work is really moving the field forward, disrupting our physical and digital world to create new experiences and new movements. These are people who had a vision for a future of storytelling and went out and started to do it,” said PhotoEx moderator Wendy Levy, introducing a panel of artists presenting their work as case studies in modern multi-media journalism.
Read More“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.
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