Heat Fellowship Project Spotlights

Our 2023-2024 Heat Fellowship focused on photography that expands discourse about heat and climate crisis, supporting nine photographers working on topics including climate-based migration, pollution-driven health disparities, and collective memory and resilience in the face of ecological disaster.

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Sarah Perlmutter
Open Call: 2025 Counter Histories Fellowship

Counter Histories is an initiative supporting projects that creatively reframe the past to engage with urgent questions of the present and future. Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals from photographers who would like to expand and complete an existing project that responds to this theme, and who are excited to contribute to a creative community of fellows. Applications are due Friday, November 1, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET.

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Sarah Perlmutter
Highlights from our 2022 Counter Histories Fellowship

As we launch this newest cycle of our Counter Histories Fellowship, we're looking back at the achievements of our 2022 cohort, whose projects excavated records of state surveillance and suppression; assembled community archives of migration and labor; and reimagined official histories to center individual and family stories of resilience and resistance. 

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Sarah Perlmutter
Announcing the 2024 Inge Morath Award

Magnum Foundation, Magnum Photos, and the Inge Morath Estate are pleased to announce Sara Kontar as the recipient of this year’s Inge Morath Award. Kontar will receive a $7,500 production grant to support the completion of her long-term documentary project, Therefore, I Cut.

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Open Call: Arab Documentary Photography Program

Since 2014, the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) has supported over 94 photographers whose creative approaches to visual storytelling challenge conventional narratives about the region. Now entering its eleventh year, the program continues to amplify essential stories in the Arab region and beyond. Applications are due September 12, 2024.

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Sarah Perlmutter
Counter Histories Video Spotlights

Aperture’s spring 2024 issue, “Counter Histories,” produced in partnership with Magnum Foundation, showcases the work of a range of international photographers who explore the creative possibilities offered by the gaps, absences, and silences in historical records. Dive into the featured projects through these short videos!

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Announcing the 2024 Arab Documentary Photography Program Grantees and Alumni Fellows

The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund and the Magnum Foundation are pleased to announce the eight photographers selected to participate in the10th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP), in addition to the six ADPP alumni who were selected for the first iteration of the ADPP Alumni Fellowship, in association with For Freedoms, for the year 2024.

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Now on Mother Jones: Can American Labor Seize the Moment?

For a series of photo essays published earlier this month in collaboration with Mother Jones Magazine and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, we asked photographers to show us the paradox of today’s labor movement. Even as the popularity of unions has grown over the last decade, actual membership has continued to decline. Can new enthusiasm revitalize American labor?

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Sarah Perlmutter
Highlights from our January Heat Workshop in Amman

Over the course of five days, fellows worked with mentors Eric Gottesman, Nandita Raman, and Newsha Tavakolian to explore the relationship between ecology and photographic practice, connect with members of the Jordanian photography community, and engage with climate-related projects from the region.

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