Photographing the Clashes in Cairo
Magnum photographer Moises Saman photographed clashes on the streets of Cairo for this week’s issue of TIME.
Magnum photographer Moises Saman photographed clashes on the streets of Cairo for this week’s issue of TIME.
Magnum photographer Martine Franck, who recently passed away at age 74, is remembered for both her strong documentary and portrait work and her role as the co-founder and president of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr traveled to Somalia to photograph Mogadishu’s return to life after 21 years of civil war.
The High Museum of Art commissioned Martin Parr to document Atlanta as part of its Picturing the South project—a series of artist commissions that engage with the American South. Channeling his unparalleled ability to collate humor, wit, and curiosity into his heavily socio-cultural photographs, Parr captured the oddities and eccentricities of contemporary Americana.
Bruce Gilden’s series about foreclosed homes, which will be presented this weekend by the Magnum Foundation as part of the Photoville 2012 festival, is a departure from the photographer’s usual working style.
From 2008 to 2011, Towell traveled to Afghanistan five times, documenting in both photographs and videos the various social issues that plague its citizens, from drug addiction and poverty to the prevalence of landmines. The work is part of a new show and slated to be an upcoming book.
The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund has made an early announcement to LightBox disclosing the winners of its 2012 grants.
A new limited edition collection published this week documents last summer’s road trip taken by Magnum photographers Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin, Alec Soth and Mikhael Subotzky and writer Ginger Strand.
Magnum Contacts published this month by Thames and Hudson includes a project that approaches the contact sheet from a different premise in its relationship to time, space and traditional sequence narrative.
The photographer speaks exclusively to TIME about his new book, which presents a series of vignettes that play out like silent movies—touching, funny, sad, irreverent and full of surprise.