Inside>>Out is Magnum Learn’s festival for visual storytellers. For one week, we create a hive of creativity and a village of photographers from around the globe.

This year’s edition took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in partnership with WARM Festival and the French Institute. Magnum photographers Olivia Arthur, Susan Meiselas, Nanna Heitmann, and Jérôme Sessini led four week-long workshops focusing on portraiture, archival work, and developing personal stories. Alongside these workshops, a series of evening talks and the event Pictures in Motion — where the participants’ work was projected in a local cinema — opened additional spaces for reflection, artistic development and dialogue.

Building on the success of the program, Inside>>Out returns with upcoming editions in Yerevan and Philadelphia in the spring of 2026.

After hosting participants in Paris in 2024, our 2025 Summer Course took place in Marseille along France’s Mediterranean coast.

Under the mentorship of Magnum photographers Newsha Tavakolian and Zied Ben Romdhane, twenty participants explored the city as their visual muse, investigating subjects ranging from local businesses and distinctive neighborhoods to the effects of wildfires in the region. For three weeks, they developed personal projects and created book dummies, with the opportunity to meet industry experts such as Lewis Chaplin from Loose Joints, the Marseille-based Solar collective, and Sami El Kasm from Libération.

Next summer, we look forward to returning to Marseille for three weeks of photography, laughter, challenges, and moments of self-reflection.


© Daniel Najera Betancourt

As part of our visual literacy program, Magnum Learn ran two community-focused projects this year.

In Normandy, our partnership with the Prix Bayeux continued for the third year in a row to deliver four zine workshops for 120 secondary school pupils. Through analyzing current news events, thinking critically about the importance of captions, and producing their own school newspaper, students learned to contextualize information and express their viewpoints with clarity and professionalism.

In Argenteuil, France, we developed a participatory project in partnership with Toit et Joie, an organization providing social housing and cultural programs to broaden access to the arts. Designed for participants with no prior photography experience, the project encouraged experimentation, personal expression, and dialogue across generations and social groups, offering attendees a fresh perspective on their everyday environment.

This year, we launched Magnum x FUTURES: Artists Spotlights, a series of online public talks designed to introduce FUTURES artists to a global audience. Throughout the year, participating artists shared their practices, inspirations, and current projects in dynamic conversations that brought new visibility to their work and fostered dialogue within the international photography community.

Our ongoing collaboration with FUTURES continues to create opportunities for emerging photographers across Europe, strengthening a vibrant network centered on creative exchange and professional growth.

©Rebecca Topakian

2025 was also a year of travel for Magnum Learn, marked by a series of workshops that wove together personal expression, rigorous exploration, and reflective storytelling.

In Sirmione, Italy, Jacob Aue Sobol and Sara Aue Sobol invited photographers to delve into the personal and poetic language of image making. In Hanoi, Vietnam, Antoine d’Agata and Tania Bohórquez guided participants in developing a methodology that merges intense photographic exploration with deep personal inquiry.

In Tokyo, Japan, Moises Saman encouraged participants to examine how their own histories inform their work, challenging their assumptions and pushing them toward a more profound honesty in their storytelling. We also continued organizing workshops in some of our most beloved spots with Enri Canaj in Lesbos, Greece, and Emin Özmen in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards celebrate outstanding new photography books from emerging artists. Congratulations to photographers Mohammed Hassan and Daniel Stephen Homer, both past workshop participants, for being shortlisted this year.

Route de la Belle Etoile (Route of the Beautiful Star) documents the world of amateur astronomers across four continents. His resulting photographs blend the domestic and scientific, the mundane and the cosmic, taking the viewer on a journey into the world of astronomical citizen science.

In Our Hidden Room, Mohamed Hassan crafts a deeply personal and visually poetic narrative that navigates between memory, trauma, and healing. The photobook is a meditation on the life of Hassan’s father, Hassan Ibrahim, a photographer, a soldier, and a man who lived with bipolar disorder.

©Daniel Stephen Homer
(Left image, @daniel_stephen_homer)
©Mohammed Hassan
(Right image, @mohamedhassanphoto)

Magnum’s Community Spotlight is a quarterly showcase of photographers’ work on our Instagram channel. In 2025, we featured the work of 120 photographers from around the world.

You can take part by tagging @MagnumLearn and using #MagnumLearnCommunity in your posts.

©Ian Warren