Magnum Foundation is pleased to be partnering with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia’s School of Journalism to launch the 2015 Photography, Expanded Fellowship, an initiative that supports innovation at the intersection of technology and documentary practice and cultivates interdisciplinary ideation and production.
Read MoreIn partnership with the Inge Morath Foundation, we’re thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2015 Inge Morath Award!
Read MoreWe are living in a transforming media industry that today offers fewer resources and funding opportunities to support in-depth documentation of pressing issues with creative vision, as it did in previous decades.
Read MoreWe’re excited to share the opening of Tactics of Collaboration: A Participatory Playbook, an exhibition of an ongoing collaboration with Photography, Expanded Fellow Mark Strandquist at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read MoreWe’re pleased to share our recent collaboration with LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia!
Read MoreOn June 15, Magnum Foundation president Susan Meiselas will be in conversation with with Charif Kiwan and Pamela Yates as a part of this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival - #HRWFF.
Read MoreEarlier in May, Magnum Foundation partnered with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation to host Digital Narratives, a two day lab on innovative approaches to visual storytelling for social impact.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is now accepting applications for our Summer and Fall fellowships. The Magnum Foundation Fellowship is designed for recent graduates of photojournalism and photography programs, providing mentorship and support at a critical moment in their careers.
Read MoreOn 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.
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