We 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, 2025.
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Magnum Foundation in collaboration with Francisco Toledo A.C. and Centro de Artes de San Agustin, is calling for proposals from Oaxaca-based photographers working in their home region to address the topic of heat and environmental crisis.
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The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Prince Claus Fund and the Magnum Foundation are pleased to announce the ten photographers selected to participate in 11th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP).
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That’s a wrap on the 10th cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program! Alongside the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Prince Claus Fund, it’s been an honor 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.
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Magnum Foundation seeks an experienced web designer and developer to build a new organizational website to effectively communicate MF’s public profile to our international community of artists, organizers, partner organizations, and funders.
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We're accepting applications for the Spring 2025 session of the New York City Fellowship, a program offering a project production grant, mentorship, and arts administration experience to NYC-based early-career photographers and photojournalists. Applications are due February 17, 2025.
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In 2024, our grants and fellowships supported over 93 photographers from 33 countries whose projects challenge dominant narratives and offer new ways of seeing and understanding. Here are some highlights of the breadth of activity and achievements of our creative community over the past year.
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Since 2011, Magnum Foundation’s New York City Fellowship has provided a launchpad for early-career photographers living and working in New York City. In this exhibition, a group of fellows come together in an exercise of collaborative co-curation, weaving their individual images together into a tapestry of New York City that expresses the ongoing acts of living, collectivism, and agency of communities that are often pushed to its margins.
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce the participants in our 2024-25 Heat Fellowship supporting photography that expands discourse about heat and climate crisis. The selected participants will each receive a $10,000 grant, take part in two in-person workshops, and connect with collaborative partners and networks.
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Earlier this week at Paris Photo, World Monuments Fund and Magnum Foundation were excited to feature four projects from our Heritage in Focus partnership to document eleven endangered heritage sites worldwide.
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Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Collin Riggins and Mateo Ruiz González as our newest Magnum Foundation Fellows. Throughout the Fall of 2024, Collin and Mateo will split their time between supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing their NYC-based photographic projects.
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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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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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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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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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World Monuments Fund (WMF) and Magnum Foundation are excited to debut Heritage in Focus, a special exhibition at this year’s Paris Photo.
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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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That’s a wrap on our 2023-2024 Heat fellowship! Last month, our fellows returned to Amman, Jordan for their second workshop, where they worked with mentors to experiment on site-specific installations of their projects about heat and climate crisis.
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We're accepting applications for the Fall 2024 session of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship (NYC Work-Study Fellowship), a program offering a project production grant, mentorship, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers and photojournalists. Applications are due August 12, 2024.
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At this year’s Photoville festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Magnum Foundation is pleased to present two projects: Prasiit Sthapit’s Moonsongs for Earth, which explores the role of musicians in Nepal’s Maoist revolution; and Can American Labor Seize the Moment?, which features seven photographers who document the current state of organized labor in the United States.
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