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Alec Soth |
Alec Soth became a Nominee of Magnum Photos in 2004 and an Associate in 2006. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography.
Since September 2006 he runs a highly successful blog of his own.
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Ann Tornkvist |
Ann Tornkvist, born in Bahrain, studied print journalism and photojournalism at Columbia University. Her master's thesis on war photography in the fine art market was published in Sweden and the U.S. She helped launch the Magnum Blog as its editor before relocating to Stockholm.
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Ben Shneiderman |
Ben Shneiderman, the nephew of David "Chim" Seymour, is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He is a key researcher and educator in human-computer interaction and information visualization, having authored 300+ scientific papers and more than a dozen books, including "Leonardo's Laptop". He was born and raised in Manhattan, but now lives in Washington, DC.
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Bjarke Myrthu |
Bjarke Myrthu (born 1974) is executive editor at Magnum In Motion. Before co-founding Magnum In Motion he co-founded the digital storytelling company NewClearMedia where he produced several independent online documentaries. In 2002 Bjarke published the educational book "The Digital Storyteller" about online storytelling, before this he published several other non-fiction books. If time allows he teaches online storytelling at schools and universities in the US and Denmark (his native country).
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Bruce Davidson |
Bruce Davidson discovered photography at a young age on the streets of Oak Park, Illinnois. When he was drafted into the army and stationed in Paris, Davidson met Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1957, having finished his military service, Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for "Life" magazine, and in 1959 he became a member of Magnum. Davidson continues to live and work in New York City.
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Bruce Gilden |
 Bruce Gilden's childhood in Brooklyn endowed him with a keen eye for observing urban behaviors and customs. After studying sociology, his interest in photography was sparked by seeing Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blow Up", after which he began taking night classes in photography at the New York School of Visual Arts. Gilden joined Magnum in 1998. More info
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Chien-Chi Chang |
Chien-Chi Chang, born in Taiwan, studied English literature at the university of Taipei, and has a Masters in Education from Indiana University. Alienation and connection are the subjects of much of Chien-Chi Chang's work. These themes surface particularly in The Chain, a collection of portraits made in a Taiwanese mental institution. He was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography in 1999.
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Claudia Guadarrama |
Claudia Guadarrama was born in 1976 in Mexico City. In 1999, she completed her political science studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1997, Claudia began her studies in photography. Two years later she started working as a photojournalist and an assistant to the editor of photography at a Mexican newspaper. During this period she also worked for various Mexican magazines. In 2001, she began photographing in depth essays on political and social issues in Mexico and Central America. Claudia has received several Mexican awards and grants. She received the Inge Morath Award in 2004 and won the Canon Female Photojournalist Award at the 2005 Visa Pour L’Image. She lives in Mexico City.
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Claudine Boeglin |
Claudine Boeglin is a creative director whose career has been centered on building editorial concepts with international teams. Co-founder of Magnum In Motion (2004), creative editor managing the founding team of French newspaper site Le Monde.fr (1999), and managing editor of Colors Magazine (1995), founded by Tibor Kalman and Oliviero Toscani. She spent 2002 in Afghanistan where she created a bilingual magazine Parvaz (Pashto/Dari) for Afghan children with Iranian photojournalist Reza Deghati (NGO Aina). In 2003, she co-edited A Generation Bears Witness, a book that brought together 37 with Azara children, in which they talk about their lives under the Taliban.
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Constantine Manos |
Constantine Manos was born in South Carolina to Greek immigrant parents in 1934. His photographic career began in the school camera club when he was 13. His chronicling of the Boston Symphony Orchestra resulted in the book "Portrait of a Symphony" which brought him initial recognition. Manos joined Magnum in 1963. More info
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Daniel Power |
Daniel Power founded powerHouse Books in 1995; he got his start in retailing at Stuart Brent Books in the mid-1980s before moving into book publishing with George Braziller, Aperture, The Journal of Art, Artforum, and Parkett - all in sales and marketing - before co-founding D.A.P. in 1990. His publishing philosophy is informed by Stuart Brent’s famous book-selling dictum, “You’re not selling toilet paper, son.”
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Elliott Erwitt |
Born to Russian parents in Paris in 1928, Elliott Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, Italy, before emigrating to the United States. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom. Erwitt joined Magnum in 1953 at the invitation of Robert Capa. He continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits. More info
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Frank Smyth |
Frank Smyth is the Washington, D.C., representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization that documents abuses towards journalists and works for their protection. As a journalist, Smyth has covered Guatemala, Rwanda, Colombia, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. In 1991, he was imprisoned by Iraqi authorities while reporting on the Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq. His articles have appeared in The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs.
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Geert Van Kesteren |
Born in Amsterdam, Geert Van Kesteren first worked as a photojournalist in Iraq during Operation "Desert Fox" in 1998. He returned to Iraq in April 2003 and spent several months working on assignment for Newsweek and Stern magazines. His work has been published in many other international magazines, and has led to two books: Mwendanjangula! Aids in Zambia and Why Mister, Why?, about his experiences in Iraq.
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Inge Bondi |
Inge Bondi, nee Kuehl, was born in Berlin. During World War II , she worked for the BBC's European Service. In 1946, she became the Managing Editor of "Radio Week" in the British Government's Public Information Office. She joined Magnum New York in 1950 where she worked closely with the original founders and learnt photo editing from Ernst Haas and Werner Bischof. She has written extensively on photography and produced the book "Chim - The Photographs of David Seymour." She is currently working on a biography of Ernst Haas.
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Jörg M. Colberg |
Jörg M. Colberg was born in Germany in 1968. He studied physics/astrophysics at the universities of Bonn and Munich, and since 2000, he has been living in the US. Jörg is the founder and editor of the fine-art photography blog 'Conscientious', one of the most widely read and popular such blogs.
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Jessica Dimmock |
Jessica Dimmock, a New York City native, studied documentary photography and photojournalism at The International Center of Photography. For her work on heroin addicts living in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, Jessica has won numerous awards including the F Award for Concerned Photography and The Marty Forsher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography. She was a teacher in Brooklyn public schools before becoming a professional photographer. Her work has appeared in Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, New York Magazine, Time and Newsweek.
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John Vink |
John Vink, born in Belgium in 1948, studied photography at the fine arts school of La Cambre in Brussels. He has been a freelance journalist since 1971. He received the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography in 1986 for a two-year documentary project on water management involving migrant and sedentary populations of the Niger, Mali, Burkina-Faso and Senegal. He joined Magnum in 1993.
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Jonas Bendiksen |
Norwegian Jonas Bendiksen began his career at 20 when he arrived by boat in Vladivostok. He spent the next years based in Russia, working on stories around the outer fringes of the former Soviet Union, resulting in the book "Satellites". Based in New York, he travels extensively, often focusing on isolated enclaves and communities. More info
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Martin Fuchs |
Martin Fuchs is a photojournalist and former intern at Magnum in New York. He freelanced for Magnum In Motion, the multimedia department, and other departments for two years. Fuchs also specializes in websites and blogs. He created the "Magnum Blog," his personal blog "Journal Of A Photographer" and a variety of other photography related websites. In July 2007 he started to take over the editorial responsibilities for the Magnum Blog.
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Martin Parr |
Martin Parr was born in Surrey, England, in 1952. As a boy, his grandfather encouraged his interest in photography, and Parr went on to study it at Manchester Polytechnic. He has since worked on numerous photographic projects that flaunt his style which pokes and prods the moral atrophy and preposterousness of modern times.
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Martine Franck |
Martine Franck, born 1938, grew up in the United States and in England. She studied art history at the University of Madrid and at the École du Louvre in Paris. In 1970, she joined Vu photo agency, and two years later contributed to the founding of the Viva agency. In 1983, Franck became a full member of Magnum Photos. Martine Franck was the second wife of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate.
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Matthew Murphy |
Matthew Murphy was born in Brooklyn, NY, where he has lived for most of his life. In 2001, he graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a BFA in photography. During his last year of school, he interned and then freelanced at Magnum Photos. Murphy joined the staff of the New York office in 2001 to work in the archives and occasionally as a sales person. He became Magnum New York's Archive Director/On-line Coordinator in December 2004. Photo by Martin Fuchs
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Pablo Inirio |
Pablo Inirio was born in the Dominican Republic in 1961. His family moved to the Bronx in New York City shortly after. He studied at the School of Visual Art while freelancing as an assistant to many different photographers. For six years, he worked with fashion photographer Hal Oringer. He joined Magnum in 1992 as the New York office's dark room printer. Photo by Martin Fuchs
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Paolo Pellegrin |
Paolo Pellegrin, born in Rome, originally studied architecture before discovering his passion for photography. The subjects he pursues include immigration, AIDS, terrorism, slavery and voodoo. In 2006, he won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project "Maktub - It is written. A journey through the lands of Islam." More info
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Patrick Zachmann |
A freelance photographer since 1976 and member of Magnum Photos since 1990, Patrick Zachmann has dedicated himself to long-term projects that bring to light the complexity of the identity and culture of the communities he investigates. He is fascinated by the themes of immigration and cultural and social fragmentation, and most of his photographic and film work relates to these issues.
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Peter Marlow |
Peter Marlow, one of the most enterprising and successful British news photographers, was born in 1952. Marlow joined the Sygma agency in Paris in 1976. Assignments in Lebanon and Northern Ireland in the 1970s brought Marlow wide distinction as an international photojournalist. He joined Magnum in 1981 and became a full member in 1986.
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Pia Frankenberg |
Pia Frankenberg, born in Cologne, Germany, is filmmaker and author. She has produced numerous short films and films since 1979 and has written four books. Her latest book "Nora" was published in 2006. She currently works on a new book with narratives. Pia Frankenberg lives in New York City.
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Reiner Holzemer |
Reiner Holzemer was born 1958 in the south of Germany. His film career began as a student of theatre sciences in 1985, when he made a film on "Gypsies in Auschwitz." The award-winning documentary was followed by more than 25 other documentaries on different subject matters. In the 90s, he began making films about photography, producing portraits on Walker Evans, August Sander, René Burri and many others. Currently, he is preparing a film on William Eggleston.
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Simon Wheatley |
British Simon Wheatley, born in Singapore in 1970, joined Magnum in 2005. In recent years, Wheatley has focused on marginalized urban areas, with a particular interest in issues of youth and urban regeneration.
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Stephen Bulger |
Photography was a childhood hobby for Stephen Bulger. He studied at Ryerson University, after which he was the founding director of the Ryerson Gallery in Toronto where he managed over thirty exhibitions. In 1995, he opened the Stephen Bulger Gallery. He represents over 20 photographers. He is a co-founder of CONTACT, Toronto's photography festival, and the First Vice President of the Board for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD).
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Stuart Franklin |
Stuart Franklin studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design. He also holds a BA and a Ph.D in geography from the University of Oxford. His documentary photography has taken him to Central and South America, China, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Since 2004, he has focused on long-term projects concerned primarily with man and the environment.
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Artprice.com |
Artprice.com monitors the international art market using a database of 21 million prices at auction. Through its archive, it is possible to access 270,000 fine art auction catalogs. It issues reports on established and emerging artists and analyzes market trends country by country. Artprice.com is based in France.
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