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Youth, the Square Print Sale in partnership with Aperture is now live ✨ Youth is about a moment, a memory — a state of becoming. With over 100 images selected by Magnum and Aperture photographers themselves, we explore the many faces of youth across generations and geographies. Each photograph is available as a 6x6" signed or estate-stamped print for one week only, priced at $110/£110/€120. 🔗 Explore the sale now: https://bit.ly/4nZV6C7 © Raymond Depardon, Moises Saman, Cristina García Rodero / Magnum Photos, Diana Markosian / Aperture Foundation

Magnum Archive Director Naïma Kaddour tells the story behind A World in Color, the agency's project to digitize the vast color library in Paris 🎞️ Tucked away in the Saint-Cyr fort are approximately 650,000 color slides, dating from the 1950s to the early 2000s, many of which remained unseen for decades. Kaddour, who joined the agency 30 years ago, saw the beginning of Magnum's transition towards digitization. With help from Fujifilm's digital systems and Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie (MPP)'s partnership, over 25,000 unseen images have been digitized this year. Preserving the archives is central to the project, as Gilles Désiré dit Gosset, Director of the MPP notes. Yet revisiting the images also illuminates the creative impulse behind the photographers' experiences around the world and their individual approaches to color. 🔗 Watch the full interview: https://bit.ly/494zrUs

Matt Black has been awarded a 2025 Fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation 👏 Black has been named one of the 22 recipients of the grant, who are selected for their "ability to impact society in significant and beneficial ways through their pioneering work or the rigor of their contributions," the Foundation writes. Black, who lives in California’s Central Valley where much of his work is focused, has documented the lives and landscapes in marginalized communities across the United States and Mexico, probing the economic and political injustices that have enabled cycles of poverty and environmental distress. In acceptance of the grant, Black says: "The fundamental role of art and journalism and storytelling in our lives more broadly is to turn the specific into the universal.” 🔗 Read more in the article: https://bit.ly/46Nbr6Q © Matt Black / Magnum Photos

A World in Color, in partnership with Fujifilm and MPP, unearths five decades of color archives from the United Kingdom: https://bit.ly/48gQpyE 🇬🇧 In 1980, Raymond Depardon documented Glasgow’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods, yet his photographs remained unpublished until 2013. Here, we reveal unseen images from this series for the first time. The selection also features Inge Morath’s 1953 image of stylish Mayfair; Chris Steele-Perkins, David Hurn and Ian Berry's photos of the working class experience; and an anti-Vietnam War protest by Philip Jones Griffiths in London, between documenting the war in real time. © Inge Morath, Dennis Stock, Stuart Franklin, Chris Steele-Perkins / Magnum

A World in Color reaches its penultimate chapter in digitizing and preserving unseen images from Magnum’s color archives, in partnership with Fujifilm and MPP. This chapter explores five decades of the United Kingdom’s past 🇬🇧 Revealed for the first time are rediscovered images from Raymond Depardon’s 1980 series in Glasgow. Chris Steele-Perkins, David Hurn and Stuart Franklin highlight the diverse working class experience across the UK, while Dennis Stock and Philip Jones Griffiths show the rise of youth-led movements. Discover curations of unseen archived images by Mark Power and Olivia Arthur at FUJIFILM House of Photography in London until October 12, alongside new commissioned series by both photographers. 🔗 Read more in the article: https://bit.ly/47czyLp

How do printers achieve the look photographers want? 🎞️⁠ Master printer Pablo Inirio delves into the details in a new documentary filmed at the @bronxdocumentarycenter. Inirio, who has worked on timeless images by Magnum photographers, reveals the process behind printing one of his favorite photographs: Thomas Hoepker's 1966 portrait of Muhammad Ali showing off his fist in Chicago. Inirio set to work in the darkroom with Hoepker to create a “gritty” effect in the portrait of the world heavyweight champion. After careful experimentation, the result marries muted tones with Ali’s grainy fist. “I think we got it,” says Inirio. 🔗 Watch the full interview: https://bit.ly/4nMGTrx

From September 24–28, 2025, Quai de la Photo in Paris hosts the exhibition “The Fragrance of Trelawny,” Cristina De Middel’s sensorial portrayal of Hampden Estate, one of the oldest sugar estates in Jamaica, located in the Trelawny Parish in the northwest of the island 🇯🇲 Magnum’s third collaboration with La Maison & Velier — a joint venture since 2017 between LA MAISON DU WHISKY - LMDW in France and Velier in Italy — presents 25 of De Middel’s photographs, four of which will feature on the bottles of Hampden Estate’s latest series of rum, distilled between 2016 and 2021. Previous collaborations featured images from Elliott Erwitt and Alex Webb, taken from the Magnum archives. De Middel’s photographs of Hampden Estate offer a contemporary experience of its people, atmosphere and processes, which involve artisanal techniques dating back to the 18th century. “Rather than coming with a fixed idea, I wanted to experience the place fully, with its intensity, its rhythm and its contradictions,” she adds. 🔗 Plan your visit to see the full exhibition: https://bit.ly/3KdPqp7 © Cristina de Middel for La Maison & Velier / Magnum Photos

Bruno Barbey’s The Italians is now showing at the Palazzo Barolo in Turin, Italy until January 11, 2026 🇮🇹 After growing restless at art school in Switzerland in the early 1960s, Barbey followed his creative impulse, setting off to Italy at 20 years old to “capture the spirit of the nation.” Drawing inspiration from documentary photography and Italian neorealist cinema of the time, he documented the eclectic spectrum of street life, from Milan to Sicily, during a transformative era in the country’s history. It wasn’t until 2002 that his images of post-war Italy were published in the eponymous book The Italians. “Time, it seems to me, has given these Italians, their faces, and their expressions, a little extra soul,” he wrote. The exhibition, titled Gli Italiani, features 70 prints from this work curated by Caroline Thiénot-Barbey and Marco Minuz. 🔗 Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/4ngo8gl © Bruno Barbey / Magnum Photos

“The message I want to share is simple but urgent: do not look away. Gaza is not a distant tragedy; it is a place full of lives, dreams, and people who deserve dignity,” writes Ali Jadallah in dialogue with Jérôme Sessini. In partnership with Gulf Photo Plus, we share the photographs and voices of four photographers in Gaza: Samaa Emad, Ali Jadallah, Mahmoud Abu Hamda and Fatma Hassona, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in April 2025. “These photographers have lived through blockade, displacement, bombardment, and the constant threat of starvation. They have watched over 270 of their colleagues being killed, and with the international press banned by Israel, they continue to document daily life in Gaza on their own while facing the same dangers themselves,” reads a statement from a group of Magnum photographers. Gulf Photo Plus has launched a Print Sale featuring the work of Palestinian and Magnum photographers. All proceeds will go directly to the featured Palestinian photographers and their wider community. 🔗 Read the four stories and see the Print Sale: https://bit.ly/3KDUAuo © Fatma Hassona, Ali Jadallah, Samaa Emad, Mahmoud Abu Hamda

The Square Print Sale returns on October 20 in partnership with Aperture, titled Youth ✨ Through over 100 images selected by the photographers themselves, the sale explores the many faces of youth: energy and vulnerability across generations and geographies. Youth is about a moment, a memory—a state of becoming. It’s the spark of firsts: the first glance, the first protest, the first fall, the first triumph. Over 100 signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality 6x6” prints will be available online for one week, priced from $110/£110/€120. The sale opens on Monday, October 20, at 9 AM EDT and closes on Sunday, October 26, at midnight EDT. 🔗 Learn more and enter the print giveaway: https://bit.ly/46zHAgX © Olivia Arthur, Constantine Manos, Alec Soth, Lindokuhle Sobekwa / Magnum Photos