Description
Magnum Photos is thrilled to continue its partnership with FUTURES to develop a 4-year educational program for their members.
Drawing from Magnum’s 75 years of experience as a global photo agency, Magnum will provide a bespoke online course designed to accompany, support and inspire the photographers that are part of the platform.
Created exclusively for artists within the FUTURES program, the course aims to develop critical thinking and a practical understanding of the contemporary landscape of photography as a profession.
In 2026, the course will offer two week-long seminars, online talks with Magnum photographers and a series of online public talks featuring FUTURES artists called Magnum x FUTURES: Artists Spotlights.
We are excited about launching this new opportunity for the artists on the platform, aimed at showcasing their work to an international audience. You will find all Artists Spotlights advertised on the page below with a link to register, as well as by following Magnum Learn on Instagram: @magnumlearn
The course is organized and run by Sofia Abechir, Education Manager at Magnum Photos.
Program [updated on a regular basis]
Open to FUTURES’ artists only:
Inspirational talk with Magnum Photographer Peter van Agtamel — Tuesday 7 April, 2026
Inspirational talk with Magnum Photographer Sabiha Çimen — Tuesday 5 May, 2026
Inspirational talk with Magnum Photographer Sohrab Hura — Tuesday 9 June, 2026
Registration: Open to FUTURES’ artists only
Artist Spotlight:
Parisa Aminolahi — Tuesday 14 April, 2026
Parisa Aminolahi (Tehran, Iran) is a Netherlands-based freelance filmmaker and photographer. Her work engages with themes of displacement, exile, homeland, family, and childhood memory. She often works with family photographs, self-portraits, and her own family members, using photography, documentary film, animation, painting, and mixed media.
Her long-term photographic project How the Nights Can Fly (formerly Tehran Diary) traces the intimate life of her mother across Tehran and temporary reunions with her children living abroad. Begun in 2012, the work reflects on distance, migration, aging, and the quiet weight of filial love shaped by the Iranian diaspora following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Over time, the project became a deeply personal and therapeutic process, with the artist’s mother emerging as both subject and muse. Following her mother’s passing in 2022, the work gained a new resonance, shifting from documentation toward memory, absence, and care.
The dummy was developed under the guidance of Corinne Noordenbos and has since evolved through a new edit, concept, and title in collaboration and under the guidance of designer and publisher Roï Saade. The book is envisioned to be published by Huwawabooks, Saade’s newly founded publishing house.
Registration: open to all – register here to attend this online talk and receive the recording.
Sára Kölcsey — Tuesday 30 June, 2026
Sára Kölcsey (1983) is an emerging, self-taught photographer from Pécs, Hungary. As an artist, mother, and cancer survivor, she works on several long-term projects with subjects closely related to her own life events and experiences. Her practice is defined by an intuitive approach to the intersections of personal history and the female experience. Her work seeks to give voice to unheard thoughts, transforming private vulnerabilities into symbolic visual narratives. After finalizing her series Postpartum Stories last year, Kölcsey has turned her lens toward the complexities of recovery and breast cancer. Drawing from her own experience as a survivor, she photographs women using specific symbols to articulate their unique stories of healing. In this ongoing work, she creates portraits of women battling breast cancer, integrating symbols that reflect their individual paths to recovery and resilience.
Registration: open to all – register here to attend this online talk and receive the recording.
Visvaldas Morkevicius — Tuesday 22 September, 2026
Visvaldas (b. 1990) is a Lithuanian artist working in the expanded field of the image. His practice explores how technology, media, and power shape perception, memory, and emotional experience. Through photography and interdisciplinary media, he examines themes of identity, disconnection, and contemporary life. He holds an MA in Photography from ECAL, Switzerland (2025).
“Losing someone is like the sky surrendering a star, a note falling silent in a familiar tune. Everything changes, with memories lingering in the air like echoes in empty rooms. Moments resurface unexpectedly: fragments of laughter, the warmth of a touch, vivid and almost too real to be gone. Moving forward feels strange, like walking on uneven ground, each step shifting what once felt certain. You drift between shadows and light, caught between the past and the future. Something within you subtly rearranges, yet nothing feels completely whole.”
Using photography as a medium, the artist captures the emotional terrain of loss – fragmented memories, fleeting moments, and the interplay of absence and presence – creating visual echoes that explore the fragile balance between holding on and moving forward. Ultimately, the piece becomes a “letter to self of acceptance.”
Registration: open to all – register here to attend this online talk and receive the recording.
