Magnum Foundation

Magnum Foundation
Type	Foundation
Industry	Photography
Headquarters	New York
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Photojournalism
Website	magnumfoundation.org

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^[2]
Cedric Gerbehaye, Land of Cush^[3]
Dominic Nahr, The Unhealed Rift^[4]
Kadir van Lohuizen, The Last 50,000 U.S. Soldiers^[5]
Karen Mirzoyan, Unrecognized Islands of Caucusus^[6]
Krisanne Johnson, I Love You Real Fast^[7]
Larry Towell, Crisis in Afghanistan^[8]
Saiful Huq Omi, The Disowned and The Denied^[9]
Shehab Uddin, Pavement Dwellers^[10]
Sohrab Hura, Pati^[11]
Wang Yishu, Substitute Teacher^[12]

2011 Emergency Fund Grantees

Alex Majoli
Balzas Gardi, Cresi
Emily Schiffer, Securing Food in Chicagoland^[13]
Ian Teh, Traces^[14]
Jonas Bendiksen, Far From Home
Julius Mwelu, The Disintegration of the Matatus^[15]
Justin Jin, Zone of Absolute Discomfort^[16]
Stephen Ferry, The Poisoning of El Dorado^[17]
Teun Voeten, Narco Estado^[18]
Tomas van Houtryve, Borderline: In the Shadow of North Korea^[19]
Yuri Kozyrev, Yemen's Unfinished Revolution^[20]
Zalmai, Walking in Quicksand^[21]

2012 Emergency Fund Grantees^[22]

Benjamin Lowy, iLibya: Libya's Growing Pains^[23]
Donald Weber, War is Good*^[24]
Eric Gottesman, Baalu Girma^[25]
Evgenia Arbugaeva, Tiksi, The Far North^[26]
Justin Maxon
Rena Effendi, We Are Here
Sebastian Liste

2013 Emergency Fund Grantees^[27]

Adam Nadel
Alex Welsh, ^[28]
Giulio Piscitelli, From There to Here^[29]
Mari Bastashevski
Olga Kravets
Philippe Dudouit
Rafal Milach,Winners^[30]
Tanya Jabjouqa, Occupied Pleasures
Tomoko Kikuchi

2014 Emergency Fund Grantees^[31]

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 Human Rights 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