This year marks 20 years since the start of the Maoist rebellion in Nepal. This war and its aftermath have left deep scars on many Nepali lives, and still affect the country at large. Last year, Nepal was hit by several horrific earthquakes, which killed over 8,000 people and left over 800,000 families homeless. A new festival in the country’s capital is exploring such devastation through photography.
Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael was already taking a very personal approach to photographing the European migration crisis when the agency started work on its major group project – photographing one family as they fled from Syria to Northern Europe. Diane Smyth finds out more about the story, how it was made, and what the photographer hopes it can do.
In 2015, KEO Films gave cameraphones to migrants and refugees, following their journeys over thousands…
We look back on the life of Marc Riboud, the iconic French photographer and Magnum associate since the 1950s, passed away yesterday at the age of 93 after a long illness.
The Vietnam War ended more than 40 years ago, and for many it is a distant memory. But the legacy of chemical warfare lives on in the form of birth defects and debilitating health in a great many Vietnamese. Tobias Nicolai’s series, The Inheritance From The Vietnam War, examines why this dark period of modern times can never be considered “just another chapter in a history book”.
When I contact Cristina de Middel to ask for an interview, she’s in an airport.…
Robert Mapplethorpe tried his hand at a startlingly extensive range of artistic forms over the…
Few things feel so ever-present, or familiar, as the history of the world wars; we…
The new year opened with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and it proved rich…
As winter approached in late 2013, the rumblings of political, social and civil discontent in…
