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The Magnum Digest: November 16, 2018

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Sohrab Hura on his Dilemmas Photographing the Marginalized

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Sohrab Hura on his Dilemmas Photographing the Marginalized

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Martin Parr’s Beach Therapy

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When Walls Talk

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Feldpost: A Global Vision of the Great War

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Stuart Franklin: Landscape as Metaphor

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Power and the Camera: Gregory Halpern on Intuition, Reflection and Representation

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Quince: Coming of Age in Cuba

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The Contradictions of Modern Japan

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Learning From The Master

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Alex Majoli: A Place to Call Home

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Ara Güler, 1928-2018

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Poverty and Mythologies in America

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From Civil Strife to Global Superpower: 80 Years of Magnum in China

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Mark Power: Good Morning, America

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Trent Parke’s Twilight Portraits of his Hometown

Trent Parke

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The Changing Face of New York’s Little Italy

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Revisiting Alec Soth’s Niagara

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When Philippe Halsman met Jean Cocteau

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A Tableau of Tribes: Martin Parr Photographs Frieze Art Fair

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Newsha Tavakolian: On Patience and Portraiture

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In Her Work Lua Ribeira Challenges Societal Norms and Her Own Preconceptions

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Photographing the Night

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Martin Parr’s Advice to Documentary Photographers

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Photographing a Crisis

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Running from Myanmar

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They Defend our Freedoms

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Martin Parr: Welcome to Belfast

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Smethwick: A Town in England

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Conflicts and Consequences

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Living in Limbo: How Refugees Are Reshaping Turkey

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Turkey’s Religious Journey

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Vantage Point: Panoramics of a War-Torn Iraq

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A Portrait of America • 32 Stories

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American Folk Historian

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Ara Güler, 1928-2018

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The Magnum Digest: November 16, 2018

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Sohrab Hura on his Dilemmas Photographing the Marginalized

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Current Exhibition
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Martin Parr
Until Apr 22, 2019 · Free

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In Pictures: Tracing the Activism of Stokely Carmichael

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Martin Parr’s Beach Therapy

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Feldpost: A Global Vision of the Great War

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The Magnum Digest: November 9, 2018

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All Aboard the QE2

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Paolo Pellegrin “An Anthology”

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Stuart Franklin: Landscape as Metaphor

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The Magnum Digest: October 26, 2018

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