Magnum Foundation

Magnum Foundation is a non-profit, photographic foundation located in New York. It was founded by members of Magnum Photos to encourage and fund independent photojournalism efforts. Magnum Foundation's mission is to "support, train, and mentor the next generation of photographers and seek to increase the impact of both historical and contemporary documentary photography in the digital age."^[1]

Emergency Fund Grant

The Emergency Fund is an annual grant awarded by Magnum Foundation through a nomination process.

2010 Emergency Fund Grantees

• Bruce Gilden, No Place Like Home
• Cedric Gerbehaye, Land of Cush
• Dominic Nahr, The Unhealed Rift
• Kadir van Lohuizen, The Last 50,000 U.S. Soldiers
• Karen Mirzoyan, Unrecognized Islands of Caucusus
• Krisanne Johnson, I Love You Real Fast
• Larry Towell, Crisis in Afghanistan
• Saiful Huq Omi, The Disowned and The Denied
• Shehab Uddin, Pavement Dwellers
• Sohrab Hura, Pati
• Wang Yishu, Substitute Teacher

2011 Emergency Fund Grantees

• Alex Majoli
• Balzas Gardi, Cresi
• Emily Schiffer, Securing Food in Chicagoland
• Ian Teh, Traces
• Jonas Bendiksen, Far From Home
• Julius Mwelu, The Disintegration of the Matatus
• Justin Jin, Zone of Absolute Discomfort
• Stephen Ferry, The Poisoning of El Dorado
• Teun Voeten, Narco Estado
• Tomas van Houtryve, Borderline: In the Shadow of North Korea
• Yuri Kozyrev, Yemen's Unfinished Revolution
• Zalmai, Walking in Quicksand

2012 Emergency Fund Grantees^[2]

• Benjamin Lowy, iLibya: Libya's Growing Pains
• Donald Weber, War is Good*
• Eric Gottesman, Baalu Girma
• Evgneia Arbugaeva, Tiksi, The Far North
• Justin Maxon
• Rena Effendi, We Are Here
• Sebastian Liste

2013 Emergency Fund Grantees^[3]

• Adam Nadel
• Alex Welsh, Home of the Brave
• Giulio Piscitelli, From There to Here
• Mari Bastashevski
• Olga Kravets
• Philippe Dudouit
• Rafal Milach,Winners
• Tanya Jabjouqa, Occupied Pleasures
• Tomoko Kikuchi

2014 Emergency Fund Grantees^[4]

• Alessandro Penso, Refugees in Bulgaria
• Carolyn Drake, Invisible Bus
• Christian Werner, Depleted Uranium: The Silent Genocide
• Ed Ou, North
• Edmund Clark, Unseen Spaces of the Global War on Terror
• Kai Löeffelbein, Death Metals
• Laura Morton, Wild West Tech
• Oscar Castillo, Our War, Our Pain
• Qinggang Chen, Patients at Muli County
• Zann Huizhen Huang, Remember Shatila

2015 Emergency Fund Grantees

• Asim Rafiqui, Law & Order: A People's History of the Law in Pakistan
• Curran Hatleberg, Shadow country
• Elena Perlino, Pipeline
• Emine Gozde Sevim, Unbeknown
• Guy Martin, Parallel State
• Massimo Berruti, Epidemic
• Matt Black, The Geography of Poverty
• Nii Obodai Provencal, Big Dreams: Life Built on Gold
• Pete Muller, Wildlife Wars: The Growing Movement of Militarized Anti-Poaching
• Peter DiCampo, What Went Wrong: Perspectives on Failed Aid
• Peter van Agtmael, Untitled

Human Rights Fellowship

The Magnum Foundation Fellowship provides funding for international students to attend the six week Summer program Photography and Human Rights co-organized by Magnum Foundation and NYU’s Tisch School of Arts.

2010 Human Rights Fellows

• Karen Mirzoyan, Armenia
• Sim Chi Yin, Singapore

2011 Human Rights Fellows

• Taslima Akhter, Bangladesh
• Nazik Armenakyan, Armenia
• Boniface Mwangi, Kenya
• Manca Juvan Hessabi, Slovenia

2012 Human Rights Fellows

• Poulomi Basu, India
• Arthur Bondar, Ukraine
• Lie Jie, China
• Pooyan Tabatebaei, Iran

2013 Human Rights Fellows

• Eman Helal, Egypt
• Ramin Mazur, Moldova
• Pattabi Raman, India
• Santiago Arcos, Ecuador
• Lijie Zhang, China

2014 Human Rights Fellows

• Mohammad Elshamy, Egypt
• Abbas Hajimohammadisaniabadi, Iran
• Yuyang Liu, China
• Loubna Mrie, Syria
• Pedro Silveria, Brazil
• Sumeja Tulic, Bosnia & Herezegovina

2015 Human Rights Fellows

• Anastasia Vlasova, Ukraine
• Muyi Xiao, China
• Nour Kelze, Syria
• Chery Dieu Nalio, Haiti
• Basel Alyazouri, Palestine
• Sipho Mpongo, South Africa
• Xyza Bacani, Philippines

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