Magnum Digest

The Magnum Digest: November 22, 2019

David Hurn on the Aberfan disaster, Bruce Gilden shoots for W Magazine, Harry Gruyaert's Last Call, and more from Magnum this week

David Hurn Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag. Over one hundred children in the apparent safety of their school were (...)

David Hurn discusses the Aberfan disaster

Spurred by the disaster’s recent dramatization in the blockbuster series, The Crown, The Telegraph spoke with David Hurn about his photographs of the Aberfan colliery land slide, which killed 116 children and 28 adults in 1966. You can read the interview on The Telegraph here, and you can see more images of the event by both Hurn and Ian Berry on Magnum, here.

David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of wate (...)
David Hurn The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, on 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of wate (...)

Harry Gruyaert on The Guardian’s Big Picture

This week The Guardian featured Harry Gruyaert’s image, made in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, in its regular Big Picture feature. The photo is taken from Last Call, Gruyaert’s newest book, that collects his images made in the world’s airports. As the writer, Tim Adams, says, Gruyaert thinks of airports “as impromptu stage sets with a cast of players entering and exiting.” See the feature here.

Harry Gruyaert A lounge of Roissy airport. Paris. France. 2010 © Harry Gruyaert | Magnum Photos

Bruce Gilden for W Magazine

Bruce Gilden has photographed two of America’s most legendary drag queens, Milk and Lady Bunny, as part of a fashion shoot for W Magazine on the streets of New York City. You can see the whole shoot on W, here.

 

Bruce Gilden USA. NYC. 2019. © Bruce Gilden | Magnum Photos
Bruce Gilden USA. NYC. 2019. © Bruce Gilden | Magnum Photos

Sohrab Hura in the Financial Times and the Art Newspaper

A new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England, brings together eleven artists from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan to explore migration and borders in the region, in the context of what the Art Newspaper terms, “exacerbated nationalism in Southern Asia.” Sohrab Hura is one of those eleven artists. You can read about the show in the FT, here, and in the Art Newspaper, here.

Sohrab Hura © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos

Nanna Heitmann discusses her Siberia Work

In an interview with the British Journal of Photography, Magnum nominee Nanna Heitmann has discussed her personal project Hiding from Baba Yaga. The work saw Heitmann traveling along the Yenisei river in Siberia, photographing those who live along its isolated banks. You can read the BJP feature here, and learn more about Heitmann’s work on Magnum, here.

 

 

Nanna Heitmann Evgenii with his rat Barclay in his apartment. Next year, he will move to the US for five months to earn enough money to own a car. After watching the movie Ratatouille, he immediately bought a rat (...)
Stay in touch
Learn about online and offline exhibitions, photography fairs, gallery events, plus fine print news and activities, on a monthly basis.
Get fortnightly tips and advice articles, find out about the latest workshops, free online events and on-demand courses.
Stay up to date every Thursday with Magnum photographers’ activities, new work, stories published on the Magnum website, and the latest offerings from our shop.