Stuart Franklin Cyclists in the rain. Shanghai, China. 1993.
“For my text I choose the last stanza of the poem “Let There Be Peace” by Lemn Sissay:
Let there be peace
Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse (...)
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Elliott Erwitt Valencia, Spain. 1952.
“The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe, I try to entertain, but above all I want pictures that are emotional. Little else interests me in photography. Today, (...)
Bruce Davidson Protest March from Selma to Montgomery. Alabama, USA. 1965.
“This photograph was taken during one of the 1965 protest marches from Selma to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. Martin Luther (...)
Dennis Stock The jazz musician Louis Armstrong in his dressing room at the Latin Casino. Philadelphia, USA. 1958.
“Dennis said Louis Armstrong was one of the most confident men he’d ever met — which was why (...)
Stuart Franklin © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos
Danny Lyon Bob Dylan behind the SNCC office. Greenwood, Mississippi. 1963.
The SNCC held a Freedom Concert that day out in a field. Greenwood was a major cotton town, and the audience was field hands and hou (...)
Cornell Capa © International Center of Photography John F. Kennedy campaigning. New York City, USA. 1960.
“Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least pro (...)
Newsha Tavakolian IRAN. Teheran. Portrait of Somayyeh. 2014. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Constantine Manos Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, USA. 1962.
“The United States is a mixture of races, religions, and different points of view. Our survival and growth are based on respect by all, for the views o (...)
Carl De Keyzer Monument to the WWII resistance movement. Durres, Albania. 1995.
“When I arrived in Albania for the first time in 1995, the country was not ready to host visitors. After years of brutal commun (...)
Burt Glinn USA. New York City. 1959. © Burt Glinn | Magnum Photos
Zied Ben Romdhane Kids playing with sand. El Faouar, Tunisia. October 14, 2018.
"The Tunisian government offers land, housing, and agricultural advantages to incentivize nomads to settle in this territory. However (...)
Robert Capa © International Center of Photography American crewmen stand in front of a B-17 bomber: one of the first 300 to be brought overseas by the US Army Air Corps. The aircraft is being prepared to take off from a Royal Air Force base for a (...)
Erich Hartmann Somewhere in the foothills of the Pyrenees, south of Toulouse. France. 1979.
“In the autumn of 1979, Erich and I were in France where he had just finished a long assignment. We decided to spend t (...)
Gregory Halpern Untitled, from A. J&L Books, 2011. © Gregory Halpern | Magnum Photos
Paul Fusco Cesar Chavez, leader of the NFWA. California, USA. 1966.
“In March of 1966 the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (a merger of the National Farm Workers Association, or NFWA, and the Agricu (...)
George Rodger Tamanrasset, Sahara, Algeria. 1957.
“While on assignment for an oil company in Southern Algeria, George made his way, with only limited film stock, in his Land Rover to the stunning Hoggar Mounta (...)
Alec Soth Lee and Quintavious. Ware County, Georgia. 2014.
“I met Lee and Quintavious at the Georgia Lions Camp for the Blind. ‘We’re the same age,’ Lee said, ‘and we help each other get along. I come to th (...)
Chien-Chi Chang Immigrants sleeping on a fire escape to avoid summer heat. New York City, USA. 1998.
“Solidarity is a word that is usually written large. To some it might mean a great victory by the people.
Bu (...)
Marilyn Silverstone Surfboat teams are needed to unload ships that are anchored further out at sea. The surf is very rough, and this is the only way of unloading goods at Accra. Accra, Ghana. 1960.
“In 1959, a young (...)
Peter Marlow The Danish artist, Olafur Eliasson's installation of a huge artificial sun in the Turbine Hall. Tate Modern. London. Great Britain. 2003.
“Global catastrophes remind us we are part of a vast and (...)
Nikos Economopoulos Havana, Cuba. 2017.
“Cuba isn’t the utopia of our collective imagination. But sometimes in the afternoon, in the streets of Havana, when the derelict playground is full of kids of mixed colors an (...)
Wayne Miller Father and son at Lake Michigan. Chicago, Illinois, USA. 1947.
“Expressing oneness was a central tenet of Wayne’s life and professional practice. He showed that here, on the shore of Chicago’s La (...)
Guy Le Querrec The Big Foot Memorial Ride. From Green Grass staging point to Lloyd Jentzen Ranch, located 9 miles south of Lantry, on the Cheyenne River reservation. Fifth day of the journey, halfway through a 25 (...)
Cristina de Middel Jorge Luna, a professional Mexican pole vault jumper trains by the border fence on the beach of Tijuana. Tijuana, Mexico. 2018.
“I read on the internet that we shouldn’t be scared of what we don' (...)
Elliott Landy Jimi Hendrix. Fillmore East, New York City, USA. 1968.
“On May 10, 1968 I was photographing at the Fillmore East and The Jimi Hendrix Experience was the second act. After shooting a long set by (...)
Christopher Anderson President Barack Obama in the private dining room of the White House. Washington, DC. USA. 2016.
“It's hard not to be discouraged. I search for glimpses of hope that hate will not win out. As fr (...)
Ferdinando Scianna Sant'Elia, Sicily, Italy. 1982.
“In the tiny seaside village where I spent my holidays, the boys competed by diving from the highest rocks.”
– Ferdinando Scianna © Ferdinando Scianna | Magnum Photos
“In the tiny seaside village where I spent my holidays, the boys competed by diving from the highest rocks.”
– Ferdinando Scianna © Ferdinando Scianna | Magnum Photos
Herbert List Running into the sea. North Sea, Germany. 1934.
“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active col (...)
Matt Black Cattle auction. Alturas, California, USA. 2016.
"As I have traveled across the US, I have seen people determined to live their lives, even in the face of diminished opportunities and a fading Ame (...)
Thomas Hoepker Muhammad Ali, boxing world heavyweight champion showing off his right fist. Chicago, USA. 1966.
“This picture came immediately to my mind when I was asked to consider the theme of ‘Solidarity’. (...)
W. Eugene Smith 'Simple Kindness,' Nurse Midwife. 1951. ©2020 The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith
“In 1951, Life magazine staff photographer W. Eugene Smith presented a radical idea for a photo essay to his editors: h (...)
Bruno Barbey Barricade built out of movie posters. Rue Saint Michel/Rue de Lyon, near the Bastille, France. May 24, 1968.
“This photo was taken in May ‘68 during the student demonstrations in Paris.
On thi (...)
Werner Bischof Cham women returning from the market. Barau, Indochina. 1952.
“In 1952, Werner Bischof is in Indochina documenting life in the French colony during the war led by Ho Chi Minh’s nationalist moveme (...)
René Burri Mei-Liu River, China. 1985.
“Like never before in history, problems are basically the same for the rice farmer in China, the car builder in America, and the miner in Germany. The extreme social s (...)
Ernest Cole South Africa. c.1965.
“In such an atmosphere [as apartheid] it is difficult to develop or hold onto a feeling of your own worth. Not only is your very being under relentless attack, but all your f (...)
Raymond Depardon American athletes Larry James, Lee Evans and Ron Freeman (left to right) on the winner’s podium for the 400-meter relay at the 1968 Olympic Games. Mexico City, Mexico. 1968.
"Night has fallen, it (...)
Leonard Freed | -scaled.jpg The March on Washington. Washington, D.C., USA. August 28, 1963.
“This is the day.
Bus-loads of marchers, Leonard Freed and I, his wife Brigitte, amongst them, in our very small Italian Fiat 600. (...)
David Alan Harvey Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. July 10, 2014.
“I love shooting in Rio. The geography and the culture combine to make the city just flat-out theatrical. A natural stage rises out of the sea. Ipanema Beac (...)
Eli Reed Anti-racism March. Forsyth County, Georgia, USA. 1987.
“A small group of Afro-American protesters was racially attacked in Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1987. Captured by network television cameras (...)
Bob Henriques Crowds at the reflecting pools by the Washington Monument during the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, led by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. Washington DC, USA. May 17th, 1957.
“Law and order exist for (...)
Mikhael Subotzky Bonnita Sings. Mallies Household, Rustdene Township, Beaufort West. South Africa. 2006.
“I met the Mallies family in 2006 while working in Beaufort West, and am in contact with them to this day. T (...)
David Hurn Tintern Forest. Tintern. Wales. G.B. 1976.
“Solidarity: We are at the edge of change, we must all engage. I am not a writer, others have expressed it better:
‘He who passively accepts evil is as (...)
Carolyn Drake Vallejo City Council Meeting. USA. 2017. © Carolyn Drake & Alicia Saddler
"A few years ago, after 21-year-old Angel Ramos was killed by policemen in Vallejo, I went with his family to a city counc (...)
Steve McCurry Fishermen. Weligama. South coast, Sri Lanka. 1995.
“These fishermen off the South coast of Sri Lanka used this bygone traditional method to catch fish in shallow waters. Very few fishermen are sti (...)
Peter van Agtmael Cup Foods, Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. June 2, 2020.
“When I first arrived in Minneapolis, Cup Foods, where George Floyd was killed by police, was a place of silence and mourning. As the days co (...)
Harry Gruyaert Fishing. English trawler from Fleetwood, Lancashire. North Atlantic. 1970.
“In the 70’s I was commissioned by The Daily Telegraph to do a job on a boat that was embarking for a fishing season, in (...)
Thomas Dworzak Village near Lake Victoria, Kisumu area, Kenya. March 2018.
“A year before this image was taken, a US non-profit started giving out the universal basic income in several villages in the region ar (...)
Nanna Heitmann My friend Andrei, a clown and puppeteer overlooks the city in the early morning hours. Moscow, Russia. April 3, 2020.
“The scene reminds me of the movie ‘Himmel über Berlin’ (‘Heaven over Berlin’ (...)
Jacob Aue Sobol Husband and Wife. Milwaukee, USA. 2014. © Jacob Aue Sobol | Magnum Photos
Alex Webb Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. 2010. From the book The Suffering of Light.
“I keep returning to these words of James Baldwin, which seem as apt today as
when he wrote them nearly sixty years ago: ‘Not (...)
Olivia Arthur Otay Mountain, California. USA. 2019.
“Otay Mountain straddles the US-Mexico border just outside San Diego and Tijuana. Because the border wall ends on its slopes, the mountain eventually becomes (...)
Inge Morath USA. Untitled. (from the Mask Series with Saul Steinberg), 1962.
Photograph by Inge Morath/MAGNUM PHOTOS.
Mask by Saul Steinberg © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/ARS, NY © Inge Morath | Magnum Photos
Photograph by Inge Morath/MAGNUM PHOTOS.
Mask by Saul Steinberg © The Saul Steinberg Foundation/ARS, NY © Inge Morath | Magnum Photos
Antoine d’ Agata HAITI. Port-au-Prince. 1998. © Antoine d’ Agata | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Refugees on the coast. Mytilini, Lesbos, Greece. 2015.
“Newly arrived refugees pass time in Lesbos, Greece, as they wait for their registration process to be completed. Many of them endured weeks (...)
Emin Özmen A woman waits for the bus. Senceredi village, near Astara, Azerbaijan. 2018.
“In 2018, I was assigned to go to southern Azerbaijan to meet with a community of Talysh people, an ethnic group indi (...)
Larry Towell Lambton County, Ontario, Canada. 1990.
“I began photographing Mennonite migrant workers as they arrived from Mexico to plant and harvest the fruit and vegetables of Ontario. It was the first summe (...)
Philippe Halsman American political activist Angela Davis. Photographed by Philippe Halsman for the cover of her autobiography. USA. 1973.
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. (...)
Richard Kalvar A&S Department Store. Brooklyn. USA. 1969.
“In times of trouble, you can always count on a helping hand or two.”
– Richard Kalvar © Richard Kalvar | Magnum Photos
“In times of trouble, you can always count on a helping hand or two.”
– Richard Kalvar © Richard Kalvar | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Paris, France. 2005.
“Solidarity.
Reportage is for me a way to reach out to others and I need to be empathetic with the people I photograph. I can’t photograph people I don’t like. I feel in soli (...)
David Seymour | -scaled.jpg Pacifist meeting for the disarmament of nations. Outskirts of Paris. Saint-Cloud, France. August 9, 1936.
“Chim's photo of this pacifist rally for disarmament depicts a passionate commitment to th (...)
Eve Arnold Training activists not to react to provocation. Civil strike, CORE group (Congress of Racial Equality). Petersburg, Virginia, USA. 1960.
“In Eve Arnold’s book, Flashback! The 50’s, she recalled th (...)
Sim Chi Yin Bangka, Indonesia. 2014.
“Indonesian tin divers and miners on the island of Bangka — armed with their lunch and water to last the day — head out to sea to catch a boat that takes them about 3km of (...)
Jim Goldberg Rising Star. Tampa, Florida. 2012.
“During Magnum’s Postcards From America project (2011-2017), I traveled throughout the US in an attempt to document the changing social climate of a country stru (...)
Jonas Bendiksen Sukhumi, Abkhazia. 2005.
“I took this in on a pier outside Sukhumi, the capital of the breakaway republic of Abkhazia on the Black Sea coast. There were a bunch of boys, playing and diving into t (...)
Jean Gaumy On the vessel Izazuri. Gulf of Gascogne, Spain. 1996.
“The school of tuna is spotted, then discreetly approached by the boat. Water jets are suddenly activated and whip the surface of the sea, sim (...)
Lúa Ribeira SPAIN. Cordoba 2019. The Behead. Salome´ carrying a tray with the Baptist´s head. © Lúa Ribeira | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj A small boat carrying refugees and migrants, which has reached the Greek coast safely, despite turbulent seas. Lesbos, Greece. October 2015.
“It is always the right time for our strength to be se (...)
Moises Saman Ansar, an 18-year-old Rohingya refugee, inside the makeshift tent that he shares with other members of his family. Ansar fled Myanmar in late September when the Myanmar Army attacked his village. A (...)
A. Abbas ‘The Confiscated Revolution’
Armed militants outside the United States Embassy, where diplomats are held hostage. Tehran, Iran. 1979.
"We won! But why did I not let my joy explode, as did all my (...)
Rafal Milach The First March of Gentlemen. Wrzesnia. Poland. 2017.
“The First March of Gentlemen is a fictitious narration composed of authentic stories. Historical events related to the town of Wrzesnia came (...)
Alessandra Sanguinetti Enchanting the pig. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1999.
“As a child, I remember closing my eyes shut tightly, and fervently wishing for things to happen or appear before me. Of course, disappointment w (...)
Philip Jones Griffiths Anti-Apartheid Protest. Trafalgar Square, London, England, Great Britain. 1960.
“Fighting racism is a generational battle and Philip was documenting the struggle 60 years ago. The Philip Jones Gri (...)
Bieke Depoorter From the project ‘I am about to call it a day’. USA. 2011
“Accidental encounters determined my sleeping places. Each day I tried to find someone new who was willing to host me that night. Mutual t (...)
Chris Steele-Perkins Roadworks and Mount Fuji. Near Kawaguchiko, Japan. 1999.
“Ask just about anyone what comes to mind when they think of Japan and they will reply — Fuji.
A Japanese person would say the more respec (...)
Sohrab Hura Pati, India. 2010.
“I never quite understood what solidarity meant until I went to Pati for the first time in 2005. Pati is a small village block in Madhya Pradesh in central India. Coming from a (...)
Hiroji Kubota The village of Ubud, surrounded by many beautiful valleys with terraced fields. Ubud, Bali. Indonesia. 1997.
“Indonesia is home to many active volcanoes and a few thousand islands. The island of (...)
Trent Parke Spider web on five blades of grass. South West Rocks. New South Wales. Australia. 2003.
“I have always been fascinated by time, symbols, life and death. From the smallest microscopic creatures, to (...)
Khalik Allah Sapphire. 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, Harlem, NYC. 2014.
“Representing the theme of solidarity: Sapphire was part of a close-knit homeless community which assembled on the corner day and ni (...)
Susan Meiselas Shared Dining. Women of York. 2015.
“This circle of hands came together to celebrate unity despite the isolating conditions of incarceration. Each woman, enduring separation from family and home, (...)
Sabiha Çimen A plane flies low over students at a picnic during the weekend. Istanbul, Turkey. 29 August, 2018.
“Solidarity comes in many shapes, sizes, and forms: brother to brother, sister to sister, support (...)
Gueorgui Pinkhassov Hotel garden in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan. 1996.
“Freedom, equality, fraternity and solidarity — in the whirlwind of society, these values form mosaics in many of our relationships. But nature came up (...)
Lindokuhle Sobekwa Farmworkers outside the supermarket with their boss's child. 2019.
“These farmworkers were waiting in a bakkie (a pick-up truck) outside one of the main supermarkets in Daleside, a rural town to t (...)
Raghu Rai Building the highway. Hyderabad. India. 2005.
“I was making the journey on this newly built highway from Hyderabad to the rest of the Andhra Pradesh state, and finding the ride delightful, when su (...)
Cristina Garcia Rodero Canvas in the wind. Baracoa, Cuba. 2010.
“Baracoa was the first city founded in Cuba. In 2011 it celebrated its 500th anniversary. It is located in the northeastern area of the province of Guantán (...)
The Space Between, from the series Firefly. Guerrero, Mexico. 2020 © Yael Martinez/Magnum Photos. © | Magnum Photos
Martin Parr Scotland, Great Britain. 2017.
“I was driving north near Huntly on the A96 in Scotland and suddenly this scene came into view.
I leapt out of the car and whipped out the camera and started shooti (...)
Hannah Price Twin Day. Rochester, New York, USA. 2008. From the series Resemblance.
“I came up with the title of 'Resemblance' for my project on adolescence because I was envious that some students got to go t (...)
Micha Bar-Am End of the track. Basic training camp, Be’er Sheva, Israel. 1957.
“Even if, linguistically, ‘Solidarity’ reminds one of soldier-hood and comraderythis image of two exhausted troops evokes my me (...)
Mark Power Shipyard. Gdansk. Poland. November 2004. “In 1980, while a student, I sold badges and other ephemera on the streets of Brighton in support of Solidarność (Solidarity), the Polish trade union founde (...)
