Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Laila Annmarie Stevens as our newest Magnum Foundation Fellow. Throughout the Fall of 2023, Laila will split her time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing her photo series, Clayton Sisterhood Project.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation, Magnum Photos, and the Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce Shirin Abedi as the recipient of this year’s Inge Morath Award, and Mihaela Aroyo as the finalist. They'll each receive a production grant to support a long-term documentary project.
Read MoreCongratulations to the Magnum Foundation alums recognized with awards at this summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photo festival!
Read MoreEarlier this month, Magnum Foundation fellows gathered for an experimental Performance Lab at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University for an exploration of how time-based performance can be a generative force for experimentation in documentary photography and visual-storytelling.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is thrilled to participate as a Program Partner at this year’s inaugural Photofairs New York, where we will present work by two photographers trained in our fellowship programs whose projects reframe and confront dominant narratives. On view September 8-10 at the Javits Center.
Read MoreWe're accepting applications for the fall 2023 session of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship, a program offering stipends, mentorship, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers. Applications are due August 1, 2023.
Read MoreIn collaboration with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, we're supporting photographic projects on the changing shape of organized labor in the United States, to be co-published by Mother Jones and EHRP. The deadline to apply has been extended to August 15, 2023 at 11:59 PM.
Read MoreThis year’s Photography Expanded Fellowship will support projects on the topic of heat and climate crisis that reimagine what a critical and ecological photographic practice might look like. Applications are due July 6, 2023.
Read MoreOriginally presented at Photoville 2023, this video spotlights artist Betty Yu’s Family Amnesia zine, which explores her family’s multi-generational resilience and resistance through family photos, collages and short personal films.
Read MoreThis year at the Rencontres d’Arles, Magnum Foundation is pleased to be supporting exhibitions by Magnum Foundation Fellows Isadora Romero and Soumya Sankar Bose.
Read MoreThe first in a series of activations of projects from the 2022 cohort, this exhibition features works in progress by four Fellows whose work investigates personal histories. Using images sourced from family photo albums, books, magazines, and community archives, the artists reassemble layered and open-ended portrayals of place, culture, and community.
Read MoreThat’s a wrap on the 9th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program! Alongside the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund, it’s been a joy to once again share space with this incredible group of photographers as part of our joint initiative to support creative production by imagemakers in the Arab region.
Read MoreAt this year’s Photoville, Magnum Foundation is proud to exhibit Counter Histories grantee Mackenzie Calle’sThe Gay Space Agency, which confronts the American space program’s historical exclusion of openly queer astronauts and reimiagines a history of the space program that celebrates queerness and highlights LGBTQIA+ role models.
Read MoreMagnum Foundation is pleased to announce Johan Orellana as our newest Magnum Foundation Fellow. Throughout the Spring of 2023, Johan will split his time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing his project on the complexities of Ecuadorian domestic and public life in New York City.
Read MoreWe are accepting applications for the Inge Morath Award, a $7,500 grant given to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. One finalist will also receive a $1,000 grant in support of their project. Submissions due by April 30, 2023.
Read MoreCongratulations to the five Magnum Foundation alums recognized in this year’s World Press Photo Awards!
Read MoreCongratulations to the nine Magnum Foundation grantees featured in New York Now: Home, the inaugural edition of the photography triennial at the Museum of the City of New York!
Read MoreAt this exciting moment of growth, Magnum Foundation seeks a creative and organized part-time Development Associate to join our team. Applications to this position are now closed.
Read MoreThroughout the Fall, Magnum Foundation Fellow Sean Sirota split his time supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing his project focusing on a politically divided Southern Brooklyn, where he was born and raised. As his fellowship term wrapped up, he shared his reflections on his fellowship experience.
Read MoreCongratulations to our Counter Histories grantees on completing their final presentations this week!
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