The Magnum Digest: December 14, 2018
Moises Saman photographs TIME’s Person of the Year, Susan Meiselas shoots in Mexico for Vogue, and more from Magnum photographers this week
TIME Person of the Year
TIME magazine announced “The Guardians” as “Person of the Year for 2018”. The magazine featured four different covers with journalists who have been targeted for their work this year. They include Jamal Khashoggi who was killed in the Saudi embassy in Turkey, staff from Capital Gazette – the US newspaper where five people were killed, along with Maria Ressa of the Philippines and the wives of Myanmar’s Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo.
Magnum photographer Moises Saman traveled 30,000 miles in 17 days to photograph The Guardians for all four covers, and the corresponding features.
Read about The Guardians here. Read the story behind the shooting of the covers here.
TIME’s Photos of the Year
Several Magnum names made TIME’s annual 100 Photos of the Year list. See work by photographers including Moises Saman, Lorenzo Meloni, Mark Power, Diana Markosian, Newsha Tavakolian, Jerome Sessini and Mikhael Subotzky here.
Bruno Barbey Photographs the Gilets Jaunes
A New Yorker article focusing on the politics behind the gilets jaunes protest movement in France is illustrated with a photograph of the unrest by Magnum photographer Bruno Barbey.
Read the article here.
Susan Meiselas for Vogue
Susan Meiselas travelled to Tijuana, Mexico for Vogue, to photograph the country’s border with America, and the asylum seekers whose stories run through it. See the feature, “Where the Border Ends”, here.
Susan Meiselas on Photography
Susan Meiselas is also featured on Huck magazine this week, speaking about her career in photography. Read the article on Huck here; and read the Magnum feature on her practice here.
Carl de Keyzer for NATO
For half a century, NATO maintained its headquarters on Brussels’ Leopold III Lane, but a move to a state-of-the-art complex across the street has just been completed. Carl De Keyzer recorded the headquarters, old and new. See the work on De Standaard here.
Inge Morath on NPR
NPR has published a feature on the life and work of Inge Morath to coincide with the release of a new biography. See the feature here. Read an extract of the biography on Magnum here.
