Over the past five years, Magnum Photos has expanded its educational initiatives to reach a wider audience, ensuring that each program supports photographers at different stages of their careers. We are now launching Magnum Learn Lab, a ten-month international mentorship program designed to support emerging photographers.
The Lab brings together the most effective elements of our current programs and years of learning initiatives into a cohesive mentorship program for 20 selected participants. Featuring a series of immersive, in-person residencies and offering long-term artistic and professional guidance, it is centered on elevating each participant’s practice with more purpose and direction.
Working closely with Magnum photographers Newsha Tavakolian, Antoine d’Agata and Rafał Milach, alongside artist Tania Bohórquez and designer Ania Nalecka-Milach, participants will discover their mentors’ individual practices and professional experiences to cultivate and embrace their own artistic approach.
Through ongoing dialogue, critical feedback, and personalized guidance, the mentors will support participants in refining their vision and strengthening the conceptual and narrative dimensions of their work.
Each participant will also receive individual online mentoring sessions from a pool of selected Magnum photographers that will run in complement to the in-person program.
Each pillar of the Lab will guide participants from the early stages of research and conceptual development to editing, producing, and presenting their work. Magnum Learn Lab fosters critical conversations, peer dialogue, and sustained engagement in a supportive environment where both the project and photographer evolve and grow.
The first two in-person meetings will be hosted in locations designed to inspire creative thinking, self-reflection and a deep immersion in the critical approaches to photography. Everyone will stay in the same hotel (included in the price), with shared meals and plenty of time for informal discussions.
The final in-person meeting will culminate with the creation of a book dummy, and an opening event taking place during Paris Photo, photography’s most sought-after international event.
