Tomas van Houtryve, 2011 EF photographer, was featured in Foreign Policy for his photo essay “The Void Next Door” on April 9, 2013. The essay explores the barren border between North Korea and China. The work was supported in part by the Emergency Fund grant. To view Houtryve’s EF project, Borderline, here.
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Pete Pin, 2011 EF Fellow, was featured on KPCC, Southern California Public Radio. Through support from his Kickstarter campaign, Pin photographed the Cambodian communities in Stockton and Long Beach. Read interview highlights or listen to the full interview here.
On January 30, Zalmai’s photographs from Kabul Afghanistan was featured on The Washington Post. The article highlighted the increased migration out of Afghanistan after NATO’s announcement of it’s military pullout by the end of 2014.
Read the full story here.
On January 23, 2013, Donald Weber’s EF-funded project, War is Good, was published in Meinung and Debatte.
Bruce Gilden, 2010 EF photographer, was featured in New Yorker’s “Home Economics” print spread for his work on Foreclosures in America. The article was published February 4, 2013 and penned by Tad Friend. To read the whole article please click here.
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The Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund today announces, exclusively through LightBox, the winners of its 2013 grants.
The fund, which began in 2009, awards annual grants to photographers from around the world to support anticipatory work that sheds light on under-reported issues and communities.
Photograph above by Tanya Habjouqa.
Thanks to TIME LightBox for the announcement!
We’re excited to announce the 2013 Emergency Fund grantees! Click here to see the announcement via TIME LightBox.
As part of the Magnum Foundation-Mother Jones partnership, Rena Effendi was featured for her work on the Coptic Christian community in Egypt. To read the full story please visit here.