Darkroom Print: @chien_chi_chang 🎞️⁠ ⁠ In 1992, drawn to people who – like himself – were trying to find their way in a new place, Chien-Chi Chang began a project on immigrants living in New York City’s Chinatown under no legal protection.⁠ ⁠ This photograph of a newly-arrived immigrant eating noodles on a fire escape was captured in 1998. One year later, Chang was awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Award, and his work compelled the US to pay attention to the rights of Chinatown’s labor practices.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to browse the Darkroom Collection, a selection of 11×14” prints celebrating the intimate art of developing in the darkroom.⁠ ⁠ PHOTO: New York. USA. 1998.⁠ ⁠ © @chien_chi_chang / Magnum Photos

@marktpower discusses his transition from analog 🎞️ to digital photography 📷️⁠ ⁠ Power’s complex, meticulously crafted images and over 13 published photobooks have earned him a reputation as one of the forerunners of British photography in a career spanning over 40 years. ⁠ ⁠ In his new online course, Picturing Place, discover the core principles and values essential to the Magnum photographer’s success. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Learn with @markpower at the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ #MagnumPhotos #documentaryphotography #photographerlife

100 Years of Inge Morath ✨ ⁠ ⁠ Today, May 27, marks one hundred years since the birth of Austrian photographer Inge Morath – the first female member of Magnum Photos. ⁠ ⁠ Driven by curiosity and empathy, even in the face of hardship, Morath was always searching for beauty – her photographs are proof of this pursuit.⁠ ⁠ In looking back at her mother’s archive, Rebecca Miller recognizes how so much of her work intersected with key events of the 20th century. There is one particular story that resonates with her, which she recounted during an online talk celebrating her mother’s centenary. Morath was living in Berlin in her early 20s, and had just purchased a bunch of violets from an old lady on the street. Suddenly, an air raid struck. ⁠ ⁠ “For some reason, she held the violets over her head as she ran down the street, as if they were going to protect her from the bombs that were falling,” says Miller. “To me, that is so classic of my mother, because they were something that was beautiful, that might protect her… She thought of art as a protection from violence and ugliness.” ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 At the link in bio, Marigold Warner recalls the life and work of Inge Morath.⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS (left to right): ⁠ ⁠ (1) Inge Morath. Self-portrait. 1958.⁠ ⁠ (2) Set of 'The Misfits.' Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in their suite in Reno’s Mapes Hotel after a day’s shooting. Reno, Nevada. USA. 1960. ⁠ ⁠ (3) Forty-eighth Street window washers. New York City. USA. 1958. ⁠ ⁠ (4) Reno, Nevada. USA. 1960.⁠ ⁠ (5) Untitled. USA. 1962. Mask by Saul Steinberg © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/ARS, NY⁠ ⁠ (6) Torero Antonio Ordonez. Spain. 1954. ⁠ ⁠ (7) Romeria del Rocio. Andalusia. Spain. 1955.⁠ ⁠ (8) A Llama in Times Square. New York City. USA. 1957. ⁠ ⁠ (9) Publisher Eveleigh Nash at Buckingham Palace Mall. England. GB. London. 1953. ⁠ ⁠ (10) Venice. Italy. 1955.⁠ ⁠ © Inge Morath / Magnum Photos

New #MagnumPhotos member spotlight: @gregoryhalpern ✨⁠ ⁠ Gregory Halpern (Buffalo, USA, 1977) is known for his intuitively rich color photography that draws attention to harsh social realities and the unerring strangeness of everyday life. ⁠ ⁠ "What’s interesting to me about the world is its chaos and contradictions, the way opposites can be so beautiful in relation to each other. I like how you can be attracted and repelled by something at the same moment," said Halpern of his work. ⁠ ⁠ "I want my images to create cognitive dissonance. If I feel that a sensation caused by an image is singular in nature – awe, beauty, dread, for example – I wind up finding the image to be manipulative, and unfaithful to the contradictory natures of reality." ⁠ ⁠ During last week's 76th annual general meeting, the collective welcomed Halpern as a full member alongside @lua_ribeira, @rafal.milach and @nannaheitmann. ⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS (left to right): ⁠ ⁠ (1, 6) From the project, 19 Winters / 7 Springs. ⁠ ⁠ (2, 4, 5) From the project, ZZYZX. ⁠ ⁠ (3) From the project, Omaha Sketchbook. ⁠ ⁠ © @gregoryhalpern / Magnum Photos

New #MagnumPhotos member spotlight: @nannaheitmann ✨⁠ ⁠ Nanna Heitmann’s (Ulm, Germany, 1994) work often explores issues of isolation – physical, social and spiritual – and the very nature of how people react to and interact with their environments. ⁠ ⁠ "When I'm doing journalistic work, I want to raise awareness of the topic," said Heitmann. "I also want to record things of cultural significance that are disappearing (...) But sometimes I'm motivated by something other than raising awareness or creating a historical document. Sometimes I just want to take the viewer into another world."⁠ ⁠ During last week's 76th annual general meeting, the collective welcomed Heitmann as a full member alongside @gregoryhalpern, @lua_ribeira and @rafal.milach. ⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS (left to right): ⁠ ⁠ (1, 3, 6, 7) From the series, Hiding from Baba Yaga. ⁠ ⁠ (2, 5) From the series, As Frozen Land Burns.⁠ ⁠⁠ (4) From the series, War is Peace.⁠ ⁠ © @nannaheitmann / Magnum Photos

New #MagnumPhotos member spotlight: @rafal.milach ✨⁠ ⁠ Rafał Milach’s (Gliwice, Poland, 1978) work explores the tension between society and power structures, using mediums such as photography, conceptual art, books, video and curation. Though he initially tackled subjects through a traditional documentary perspective, his later projects employ a more conceptual approach.⁠ ⁠ Explaining his practice, Milach has said: "power structures are either invisible to us or we choose not to see them. I try to find different ways of deconstructing these ideas, each time trying to find a proper visual language – I believe a multitude of approaches can help the viewer understand the complexity of the problem."⁠ ⁠ During this week's 76th annual general meeting, the collective welcomed Milach as a full member alongside @lua_ribeira, @nannaheitmann and @gregoryhalpern. ⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS (left to right):⁠ ⁠ (1) Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, people spontaneously took to the streets to protest against the Constitutional Court's declaration that criminalizes abortion even in cases of fatal damage to the fetus. Warsaw. Poland. October 22, 2020.⁠ ⁠ (2) Zhodino. Belarus. May 22, 2013.⁠ ⁠ (3) International Border Guard training organized by Hungarian police and military forces. Veszprém. Hungary. October 2019. ⁠ ⁠ (4) Tijuana. Baja California. Mexico. May 2019. ⁠ ⁠ (5) On October 22, 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal announced the introduction of the nearly total abortion ban. The pro-choice protests that followed the declaration have been the largest public demonstrations in Poland since the collapse of communism in 1989. The culmination of the protests coincided with the COVID-19 epidemic. Many people watched the protests from windows and balconies. Warsaw. Poland. January 30, 2021. ⁠ ⁠ (6) The sixth day of protests against the introduction of a more restrictive abortion ban. Crowds protesting in front of the Polish parliament building. Warsaw. Poland. October 28, 2020.⁠ ⁠ (7) Minsk. Belarus. March 22, 2013.⁠ ⁠ © @rafal.milach / Magnum Photos

New #MagnumPhotos member spotlight: @lua_ribeira ✨⁠ ⁠ Lúa Ribeira’s (Galicia, Spain, 1986) work deals with the dynamics of oppression and the mechanisms of exclusion imposed by dominant culture. Through her photography practice, characterized by its collaborative and immersive approach and extensive research, Ribeira seeks to question structural separations between people. ⁠ ⁠ “There was this sense of shame – about the accent, the place you came from. There was the fact that your parents grew up in this context of repression. It’s very engrained," said Ribeira about her upbringing in an interview by @dismy earlier this year. “And that inevitably means that I am always looking through that lens – looking at how power works and how it affects certain people and communities.”⁠ ⁠ During this week's 76th annual general meeting, the collective welcomed Ribeira as a full member alongside @rafal.milach, @nannaheitmann and @gregoryhalpern.⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS (left to right):⁠ ⁠ (1) From the series, Los Afortunados. Melilla. Morocco-Spain Border. 2019. ⁠ ⁠ (2) From the series, Aristócratas. Water park wall. Spain. Galicia. 2016.⁠ ⁠ (3) From the series, Subida al Cielo. Edwina and child. London. England. GB. 2017.⁠ ⁠ (4) From the series, Los Afortunados. Melilla. Morocco-Spain Border. 2019. ⁠ ⁠ (5) From the series, Aristócratas. Galicia. Spain. 2016.⁠ ⁠ (6) From the series, Las Visiones. Girls looking at procession. Cordoba. Spain. 2019.⁠ ⁠ (7) From the series, Los Afortunados. Melilla. Morocco-Spain Border. 2019. ⁠ ⁠ (8) From the series, Agony in the Garden. Spain. 2022. ⁠ ⁠ © @lua_ribeira / Magnum Photos

The annual #MagnumPhotos group photograph, this year made by @oliviarthur with an old wooden 10x12 camera 📸⁠ ⁠ Photographers and staff gathered in the Magnum London office this week for the 76th annual general meeting to review the past year’s activities, discuss the direction of the collective and brainstorm new ideas and opportunities. The AGM, a yearly tradition that stretches back to the founding of Magnum, is also when member photographers vote on membership status and nominee portfolio submissions.⁠ ⁠ The 2023 meeting welcomes four new members, @nannaheitmann, @rafal.milach, @lua_ribeira and @gregoryhalpern, and one new associate member, @ziedbromdhane. ⁠ ⁠ In the coming days, we will spotlight a selection of works by each new member and associate member. ⁠ ⁠ © @oliviarthur / Magnum Photos⁠

@netflix invited @davidhurnphoto to shoot on the set of Demon 79, the final episode of the sixth season of #BlackMirror 📽️⁠ ⁠ Set in Northern England in 1979, the episode tells the story of Nida, a meek shop assistant who unwittingly summons a demon who informs her she must commit three murders to prevent disaster. Directed by Toby Haynes and written by #CharlieBrooker and Bisha K. Ali, #Demon79 is the first episode released under the label #RedMirror and contains supernatural elements rather than technology-based stories.⁠ ⁠ David Hurn's photographs focus mainly on the main cast: actors @anjvasan, dressed in her character’s shop assistant uniform, and @pessiedu in full 70s glam. “My brief was basically to produce 70s looking pictures,” Hurn tells Creative Review. “As this episode was set in the 70s, I got to shoot in black and white – the 70s color – this was easy.” ⁠ ⁠ © @davidhurnphoto / #MagnumPhotos for @netflix ⁠ Ryan Evans, UK series Photo & AV Manager at Netflix ⁠ @ravi.chandarana, Photography Assistant

Magnum x @icalondon Film Festival: Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family by @susanmeiselas, Alfred Gizzette & Richard Rogers 📽️⁠ ⁠ This evening, June 27, at 6:30 PM, the Magnum Film Festival at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London is screening two films by Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas: Living at Risk (1985) and The Barrios Family 25 Years Later (2011). ⁠ ⁠ The two films follow the Barrios, a Nicaraguan family dedicated to social and political transformation. ⁠ ⁠ The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Susan Meiselas.⁠ ⁠ 🎟️ Tickets available at the 🔗 bio.

📚️ When sequencing photobooks, @marktpower stresses that “it’s important to not allow the viewer to think that they’ve got it.” ⁠ ⁠ In chapter 13 of his new online course, Picturing Place, Power and Stuart Smith of @gost_books re-sequence The Shipping Forecast in the studio, looking specifically at pairings and how they work together as a complete oeuvre. 🔗 Start learning with @marktpower, at your own pace, at the link in bio.

100 Years of Marc Riboud 📸⁠ ⁠ Today, June 24, marks one hundred years since the birth of French photographer Marc Riboud, who was invited by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa to join Magnum Photos after his photograph of a painter on the Eiffel Tower appeared in Life Magazine in 1953. ⁠ ⁠ “I have always been more sensitive to the beauty of the world than to its violence and monsters. My obsession has been with photographing life at its most intense, as intensely as possible,” Riboud wrote in the essay “Pleasures of the Eye” (2000).⁠ ⁠ In Riboud's photographs, the people, their daily struggles and resilience take center stage – a lasting testament to his singular, empathetic view of the world. ⁠ ⁠ 🔗 At the link in bio, we celebrate the life and work of the French photographer. ⁠ ⁠ PHOTOS (left to right):⁠ ⁠ (1) Zazou, the Eiffel tower's painter. Paris. France. 1953. ⁠ ⁠ (2) Self-portrait. Leopoldville airport. Congo. 1961.⁠ ⁠ (3) An American young girl, Jan Rose Kasmir, confronts the American National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam march. This march helped to turn public opinion against the US war in Vietnam. Washington DC. USA. 1967. ⁠ ⁠ (4) The Great Wall. Hebei Province. China. 1971.⁠ ⁠ (5) Moscow. USSR. 1960.⁠ ⁠ (6) A tribal munitions factory near Kohat Pass on Afghanistan's lawless border with Pakistan. Afghanistan. 1956.⁠ ⁠ (7) Independence. Algeria. July 2, 1962.⁠ ⁠ (8) Moslem praying towards Mecca at Rub al Khali in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. 1974.⁠ ⁠ (9) After bathing in the Ganges. Bénarès. Uttar Pradesh. India. 1956.⁠ ⁠ (10) American architect Ieoh Ming Pei in the east wing of the National Gallery that he designed. Washington DC. USA. 1978. ⁠ ⁠ © Marc Riboud / Fonds Marc Riboud au MNAAG / Magnum Photos