Yael Martínez Shadow of a person on a wall in the comunity of Metlatonoc. The Mountain of Guerrero has been a territory without law. Dozens of people have moved to other places to live. Located on Mexico’s south (...)
ern Pacific Coast, it is home to most of the poppy bulbs that yield heroin consumed in the U.S. The United Nations estimates that Mexico has the world’s third-largest geographic area dedicated to illicit opium cultivation, after Afghanistan and Myanmar. Metlatonoc, Guerrero. Mexico. 2015. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Sim Chi Yin Malaysia. 2017. From "Shifting Sands", 2017- on-going. A family takes a walk and goes fishing in an area in southern Malaysia now covered with giant sand dunes. The Danga Bay area is earmarked for (...)
a massive residency and commercial development, with much of the land reclaimed. Mangroves nearby appear to have been drowned by sand. The world is running out of sand as Asia’s rapid urbanisation is driving up demand like never before. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
Alex Majoli Artist and writer Yayoi Kusama in her Shinjuku studio. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environment (...)
al installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. Kusama is also a published novelist and poet, and has created notable work in film and fashion design. Tokyo. Japan. 2016. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos
Bruno Barbey Ganesh festival. The birthday of Ganesh Chaturthi, the elephant headed God who was the son of Shiva and Parvati, is one of the most popular annual religious festivals of Bombay. It takes place at t (...)
he end of the Monsoon season in late August and September. Traditional clay effigies are carried through the city to the Bombay waterfront where they are immersed in the sacred waters and left there to be decomposed. Effigies of Gansesh and his parents Parvati and Shiva. Mumbai. India. 1980. © Bruno Barbey | Magnum Photos
Carolyn Drake The sisters of Sean Monterrosa, who was killed by the police, hold his portrait. The police department in Vallejo, California has, for many years, controlled city politics, threatened the city’s pe (...)
ople, and condoned violence. Vallejo, California. USA. 2020. © Carolyn Drake | Magnum Photos