In 2023, our grants and fellowships supported over 87 photographers from 31 countries whose projects challenge dominant narratives and bring forth new ways of seeing and understanding.
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce the participants in the 2023-2024 Photography Expanded Fellowship focused on the topic of heat and climate crisis. The cohort features nine photographers whose projects reimagine what a critical and ecological photographic practice might look like. The selected participants will each receive a $10,000 grant, take part in two workshops, and connect with collaborative partners and networks.
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We're accepting applications for the spring 2024 session of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship (NYC Work-Study Fellowship), a program offering stipends, mentorship, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers. Applications are due January 31, 2024.
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As Johan Orellana’s Spring Magnum Foundation Fellowship wrapped up, intern Sebastian Barreto caught up with Johan to discuss the latest developments in his photo project and learnings from his time working on Magnum Foundation’s programs. Read more below!
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Congratulations to the two Magnum Foundation-supported projects that were recognized by this year’s Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards!
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aka TAWLA is a collective for photobook makers from the SWANA region, supporting photobook making and alternative narratives from the region. Organized by Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) alums Abdo Shanan and Rehab Eldalil, the collective launched their first zine Tarweedeh.
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Since 2014, the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) has supported over 85 photographers whose creative approaches to visual storytelling challenge conventional narratives about the region. Now entering its tenth year, the program continues to amplify essential stories in the Arab region and beyond. Applications to the 2023 ADPP Open Call, and to the new ADPP Alumni Fellowship, are due December 20.
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Destiny Mata as our newest Magnum Foundation Fellow. Throughout the Fall of 2023, Destiny will split her time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing her project Alphabet City Yearbook 2023-2024.
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We're excited to share the latest projects produced in the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP), a joint initiative with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund, and Magnum Foundation. See the projects now on the program’s Arabic-English website.
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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.
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Magnum 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.
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Congratulations to the Magnum Foundation alums recognized with awards at this summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photo festival!
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Earlier 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.
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Magnum 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.
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We'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.
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In 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.
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This 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.
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Originally 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.
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This year at the Rencontres d’Arles, Magnum Foundation is pleased to be supporting exhibitions by Magnum Foundation Fellows Isadora Romero and Soumya Sankar Bose.
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The 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.
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