In collaboration with The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Prince Claus Fund (PCF), we are pleased to open applications for the eighth year of the Arab Documentary Photography Program. Applications are due April 30, 2021!
Read MoreAnnouncing a new Arabic-English website to showcase the nearly 60 projects from the Arab Documentary Photography Program, a joint initiative with The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund, and Magnum Foundation.
Read MoreWe're accepting applications for the spring 2021 session of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship, a program offering stipends, mentorship, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers. Apply by February 25, 2021!
Read MoreOn the statement calling for collective accountability against sexual harassment in photography: we commend its authors, many of whom we are proud to know as grantees of Magnum Foundation and as leaders paving a path toward a more equitable industry.
Read MoreFor the 110th Anniversary edition of The Crisis magazine, the official publication of the NAACP, we provided production grants to five members of the MFON collective to document rising activists in Portland, Louisville, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Kenosha.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Luis Manuel Diaz argues that this generation of Latinx young people is more outspoken—about inequality, assimilation, racism, and more—than those that came before.
Read MoreIt’s hard to imagine a time before March of this year, but as we reflect back we are able to take stock of the incredible breadth of activity and achievements we made together as a creative community both before throughout the events that have defined 2020 across the globe.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Sarah Stacke examines how The Cheyenne River Reservation is taking matters into its own hands to protect residents from Covid-19, even as South Dakota has resisted shutting down.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Cinthya Santos Briones showcases the traditional systems of mutual support that undergird many Indigenous Central and North American cultures, forming a safety net in New York City.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Stacy Kranitz visualizes the devastating closures of hospitals throughout Appalachia.
Read MoreWe’re pleased to announce new projects by our 2020 grantees documenting the impact of the global health crisis from inside their communities.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Naomieh Jovin shares her experience as a Haitian American imagemaker, shaped by the resilient women in her family.
We’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Destiny Mata takes us behind the doors of New York’s Public Housing.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Rian Dundon shows us whats on the other side of the lens as livestreamers and citizen journalists provide constant footage of BLM protests in Portland.
Read MoreThis fall, the Magnum Foundation is proud to announce the support of 18 photographers to develop short-term visual projects related to the 2020 US elections.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Sara Hylton illustrates how the upcoming US presidential election could decide whether one of the most destructive fossil fuel projects continues to be built, or is brought to a halt.
Read MoreWe’re accepting applications for our Photography and Social Justice Fellowship, a program that expands diversity and creativity in the field of documentary photography through capacity-building and critical explorations of photography and social change. Apply by December 1, 2020!
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Laila Annmarie Stevens spotlights the hopes and concerns of her peers: young first-time voters of color.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Wesaam Al-Badry chronicles the mayor of a small farming town in California fighting to protect her constituents, regardless of immigration status.
Read MoreWe’re partnering with The Nation on What’s At Stake, a series of photo essays from across the country through the lenses of independent image-makers. This week, Alan Chin gives an in-depth look at the impact of the pandemic on Chinatown
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