On April 17, Magnum Foundation President Susan Meiselas was invited to speak at the Closing Plenary for the 2015 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.In her talk, she explores the theme of “what photographs can do” and what patient capital is to an invested photographer - the very substance of our work at the MF.
Read MoreTwo years ago, The Atlantic Philanthropies approached the Magnum Foundation with a unique challenge. Atlantic is a limited life foundation, and it operated anonymously for much of its existence.
Read MoreWith the publication of Eve Arnold by Janine di Giovanni on April 21, 2015, Magnum Foundation is launching a new series of illustrated biographies about the lives of Magnum photographers between and around their photographs.
Read MoreThe Inge Morath Award was established by the members of Magnum Photos in tribute to their colleague, who was associated with Magnum for more than fifty years. Funded by the photographers, the Award is administered by the Inge Morath Foundation in cooperation with the Magnum Foundation, New York.
Read MoreThe Inge Morath Foundation and The Magnum Foundation announce the 14th annual Inge Morath Award. APPLY BY APRIL 30, 2015!
Read MoreThe documentary landscape has been radically altered by massive cultural and technological shifts over the past decade – from the emergence of social media reporting and smartphonography to data journalism.
Read MoreThe Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) was launched in 2014 by The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), the Prince Claus Fund (PCF), and Magnum Foundation (MF) as an intensive three-year initiative to stimulate the production and distribution of compelling and unconventional documentary work in the Arab region.
Read MoreOn February 11, we held our first Photography, Expanded Meetup as a way to continue conversations around interdisciplinary collaboration and new methodologies for photographers to expand their practice.
Read MoreThis week, the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) held its second and final workshop in Beirut.
Read MoreThe Photography and Human Rights program provides photographers from the Global South with scholarships and intensive training in the ethical use of photography in the advancement of human rights at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.
Read MoreThis year's 11 Emergency Fund grantees were selected from a pool of 100 photographers nominated by 15 international photo editors, curators, and educators.
Read More2014 Human Rights Fellow Abbas Hajimohammadi was recently in Yerevan to apply for a U.S. visa in order to travel to Denver for his upcoming exhibition with David Burnett at the Vicki Myhren Gallery.
Read MoreThursday 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.
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