"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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On September 17, 2015, Ireland’s Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, launched Laying Foundations for Change: Capital Investments of The Atlantic Philanthropies at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
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Moderator Wendy Levy opened the second panel of this year’s Photography, Expanded symposium by inviting presenters to “raise the curtain on a process that is fully in progress.”
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On View: Matt Black's "The Geography of Poverty"
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Co-presented with The Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology of Parsons The New School for Design, this one-day event will present innovative documentary storytelling and emerging ideas in digital media and journalism on social justice issues.
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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.
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In partnership with the Inge Morath Foundation, we’re thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2015 Inge Morath Award!
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We 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.
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We’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.
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We’re pleased to share our recent collaboration with LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia!
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On 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.
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Earlier 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.
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Magnum 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.
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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.
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Two 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.
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With 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.
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The 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.
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The Inge Morath Foundation and The Magnum Foundation announce the 14th annual Inge Morath Award. APPLY BY APRIL 30, 2015!
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The 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.
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