Magnum Foundation

06/23/2026

Projects of the Arab Documentary Photography Program, Cycle 11, are now live on arabdocphotography.org
This cohort brings together ten photographers from Palestine, Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, whose work explores memory, displacement, identity, freedom, land, and belonging through personal and politically resonant narratives.
ADPP is a program implemented by AFAC in partnership with the Prince Claus Fund and Magnum Foundation, with the support of the Norwegian Embassy to Lebanon and Syria.
احمد الاقرع Ahmad Alaqra Omar Malas Hassan Kamil Fares Zaitoon Paul Gorra ﮼ربى||ROBA Rabab Chamseddine Hashim Nasr مجلة بلسم | Balsam Magazine maryam.effendii

مشاريع الدورة 11 من برنامج التصوير الفوتوغرافي الوثائقي العربي على موقع البرنامج الإلكتروني الآن.
تضم المجموعة مصورين ومصورات من فلسطين، السودان، لبنان، سوريا، مصر والأردن، تستكشف أعمالهم/ن الذاكرة والهجرة والهوية والحرية والأرض والانتماء، عبر سرديات شخصية وذات صدى سياسي.
تدير آفاق برنامج التصوير الفوتوغرافي الوثائقي العربي بالشراكة مع صندوق الأمير كلاوس ومؤسسة "ماغنوم" وبدعم من السفارة الملكية النرويجية في لبنان وسوريا

06/17/2026

Congratulations to Magnum Foundation grantee Cinthya Santos-Briones Cinthya Santos Briones on her solo exhibition, “Living in Sanctuary,” opening tonight at Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York BAXTER ST at the Camera Club of NY!

“Living in Sanctuary” traces the daily lives of undocumented immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in the United States who have sought refuge within churches, temples, and faith communities. Santos-Briones has been a Magnum Foundation Fellow since 2017, and the work on view was developed in her Magnum Foundation fellowship.

🗓 June 17, 2026 - August 12, 2026
📍 Location: Baxter St. at the Camera Club of New York | 154 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002
🔗 Visit the link in bio for more info

📸 “The Pew,” 2018. Photo by Cinthya Santos-Briones Cinthya Santos Briones

05/08/2026

Please join Magnum Foundation on May 15 for our event “Visualizing Health Disparities in the U.S.”

Presented alongside the Commonwealth Fund () and Photoville, this conversation will feature four photographers whose work highlights the lived experience of health disparities in the United States: Pablo Unzueta (), Sydney Ellison (), Brooklynn Kascel (.kascel), and Cheney Orr (). The event will be moderated by Jehan Jillani, Visuals Director at The Atlantic ().

🗓 Friday, May 15 | 12:00 – 2:00PM
📍 Location: Magnum Foundation | 59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
🔗 More info + RSVP at magnumfoundation.org/events

Starting May 16, projects from this initiative by Cheney Orr and Pablo Unzueta will be on view in Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of this year’s Photoville festival. See more about our exhibitions at Photoville this year on our website (link in bio)!

📸 Photo by Sydney Ellison ()

05/06/2026

04/15/2026

Meet our newest New York City Fellows Ramona Jingru Wang () and Roshni Khatri ()!

Throughout this spring, Roshni and Ramona will be splitting their time supporting Magnum Foundation’s programming and pursuing their New York City based-projects.

Supported by Working Assumptions (), Ramona’s project, “We Carry Each Other Home,” explores how care functions within intergenerational Cantonese immigrant families in New York City, both as a personal or emotional act, and as a structure shaped by migration, labor, and access to resources. On receiving the fellowship, Ramona shared: “Receiving this grant is incredibly meaningful to me. The project I’m proposing is very personal both in terms of my background and the community it focuses on, so having the support to develop it in a thoughtful, sustained way means a lot.”

Roshni’s project “Punjab Avenue, New York” centers on intergenerational Sikh life in Richmond Hill, Queens. “I’m excited to work alongside and learn from the team at Magnum Foundation, and to gain hands-on experience through the program,” said Roshni. “Being part of a space that encourages engaged documentary practice feels deeply meaningful at this stage in my work.”

This year, as part of a new partnership with Working Assumptions, Magnum Foundation expanded the Spring Fellowship from one to two fellows, to support an additional photographer whose work focuses on themes of care, family, and interdependent relationships in communities.

Learn more about their projects at magnumfoundation.org/news

The fellowship is made possible with the support of the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation (), Select Equity Group Foundation, and Working Assumptions ().

📸 Photos by Ramona Jingru Wang and Roshni Khatri

03/31/2026

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Last chance to apply to Counter Histories: Puerto Rico!

Magnum Foundation is calling for proposals for photographic projects that engage with archives and collective memory of Puerto Rico and its diaspora.

Since 2018, Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories initiative has supported artists who elevate suppressed histories, reframe dominant narratives, and challenge the power structures embedded in archives. This year, with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation (), Magnum Foundation is partnering with the Instituto de Observación Colectiva () and past Counter Histories Fellow Christopher Gregory-Rivera () to launch a new edition of the program focused on Puerto Rico and its diaspora.

At a time when public memory in Puerto Rico is threatened by systemic disinvestment and cultural erasure, artists have taken a leading role in countering this silencing. Counter Histories: Puerto Rico seeks to strengthen the role photography can play in building a collective visual archive for the present and future.

🗓 Applications are due April 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM EDT
💫 Applications may be submitted in English or Spanish
🔗 Apply at magnumfoundation.org/opportunities (link in bio)