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12/6/15

Kristen Lubben to Join Magnum

Kristen Lubben, a longtime curator at the International Center of Photography, has been appointed the first full-time executive director of the Magnum Foundation. Lubben was a curator at the ICP since 1997 and she organized more than 20 exhibitions there. She is also the author of many publications, including Magnum […]

11/23/15

CPW Names New Executive Director

Hannah Frieser has been named the new executive director of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, filling the post that Ariel Shanberg occupied for 12 years. The former executive director of Light Work in Syracuse, Frieser was also on the board of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE), where she […]

11/11/15

W. Eugene Smith’s Jazz Loft Documentary

The photojournalist W. Eugene Smith is known for his long-form humanitarian photo essays — Country Doctor, Spanish Village, and Minimata, among others — and his work for Life and Magnum. But in 1957, he moved into a dilapidated building at 821 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan that became known as the Jazz […]

11/5/15

Auction to Benefit Christian Aid

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the U.K.-based organization Christian Aid, ten established photojournalists have each donated a print to be auctioned online. The sale is open from November 6 through November 20, and each print was taken on assignment with Christian Aid. In addition, each photographer has selected seven of his […]

10/26/15

Library of Congress Acquires Trove of Photographs of Public Libraries

The Library of Congress has acquired 681 photographs from Robert Dawson’s project The Public Library: An American Commons. The project, a survey of public libraries across the United States, is an investigation into the American public library as architecture, community space, and a reflection of the contemporary social landscape. Dawson […]

10/26/15

Magnum Symposium Focuses on Innovative Storytelling

The third annual Magnum symposium, Photography, Expanded, is taking place Sunday, November 1, in New York City. Co-presented with the photography department of Parsons, the New School for Design, the one-day event will present innovative documentary storytelling, as well as emerging ideas in digital media and journalism. Presentations and panel […]

10/18/15

Photography Master Retreat

Applications are now open for the Photography Master Retreat, a one-week professional retreat in the south of France for photographers to work with four experienced mentors – Elisabeth Biondi, Lyle Rexer, Katharina Bosse, and Martine Fougeron. The retreat, scheduled July 9-16, 2016, right after the nearby Rencontres d’Arles photo festival, […]

10/15/15

Matt Black Wins W. Eugene Smith Award

Matt Black is the winner of the 2015 W. Eugene Smith Grant, which comes with a $30,000 award. Black won the award for his ongoing exploration of poverty, immigration, and farming in California’s Central Valley. He has recently expanded the scope of that project in The Geography of Poverty, dedicated […]

10/14/15

Hilla Becher, 1934-2015

Photographer and influential teacher Hilla Becher died on October 10. She and her husband, Bernd Becher, who died in 2007, were a force in the photography world, known for their typologies of factories, water towers, houses, and other structures taken from the same straightforward vantage point. The duo influenced […]

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