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On assignment for Le Temps, Eli Reed, Peter van Agtmael, Cristina de Middel and Larry Towell teamed up with reporters Simon Petite and Léo Tichelli to document key issues in four swing states in the USA ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in November. While Reed explored a climate of heightened tension and ongoing challenges to democracy in Atlanta, Georgia, Van Agtmael visited Fayetteville, North Carolina, to learn about the political views of veterans in the region. Meanwhile in Florida, De Middel explored the subject of abortion, where confrontations between pro-life and pro-choice groups are routine, and Towell documented migrant crossings in Arizona at the US-Mexico border wall. 🔗 Discover the four new articles: https://bit.ly/3zREhVS © Cristina de MIddel, Larry Towell, Eli Reed, Peter van Agtmael / Magnum Photos

The Square Print Sale returns on October 21 in partnership with The Photo Society 📸 Exploring the theme Eden, the sale celebrates the miraculous beauty, complexity and sometimes absurdity of life on our planet through a collaboration that emphasizes the urgent need to protect it from the existential threat of humankind. Each of the 123 images featured will be available as signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality 6x6" prints online for one week only, priced at $110/£110/€120. The sale opens on Monday, October 21, at 9 AM EDT and closes on Sunday, October 29, at 11:59 PM EDT. 🔗 Sign up for a chance to win a box set of prints from the upcoming sale: https://bit.ly/4ev2SPE © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos

Cristina de Middel: "Photography, once the perfect tool for understanding the world, now risks becoming an obstacle, and the role of trusted documentary photographers is essential in cutting through the noise, offering images grounded in truth, yet rich with personal perspective — just as Magnum always intended.” Earlier this month, Magnum announced the opening of the Collector Cooperative, a new initiative appealing to collectors worldwide to support the creation of new work from Magnum photographers. One of the aims set to be supported by the Cooperative is the Magnum Chronicle, an annual print magazine that documents and reflects on contemporary issues around the world. In a new interview following this announcement, Magnum President Cristina de Middel opens up about the relationship between Magnum and photojournalism, the challenges and difficulties that many reporters face today, and how the idea for the new Cooperative, as well as the Chronicle, was conceived. Read the interview: https://bit.ly/47HqKwO © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos

Signature Drop #002: Jim Goldberg is now LIVE ✨ The second in a new series of time-limited pieces from Magnum photographers releases today with two hand-finished 18x24” posters by Jim Goldberg. “The Last Day of Summer 1997” shows an image taken during a water festival on the Fourth of July in Monte Rio, California, a town on the Russian River. A float of a sinking house was created in memory of the river flooding a year prior. The picture on top of it is a Polaroid Goldberg took in 1997 — a self-portrait, inscribed with the title. “My Dream” is a collaged collection of cut-up contact sheets that Goldberg saved over the years from his project Raised by Wolves. They surround a photogram of a child. He decided to include work from Raised by Wolves in the autobiographical Coming and Going because even though the former wasn’t directly about him, it was undeniably central to his life story. For this image, he wanted to honor that work, the people in it, and the dreams that they and he had at the time. Each poster is made-to-order and drawn on by Goldberg himself, only available until Monday, September 23 at 9 a.m. EDT. 🔗 Explore the drop: https://bit.ly/4ergfQl © Jim Goldberg / Magnum Photos

Learn how to capture your curiosity through photography alongside Jonas Bendiksen and Thomas Dworzak in the historical city of Bukhara in Uzbekistan. ✨⁠ From October 13 to 18, you will explore the ancient city, engaging in daily shooting sessions as well as editing and sequencing classes with the two photographers. Open to photographers of all levels, from passionate amateurs to working professionals, the workshop aims to help you develop your photographic voice while discovering one of the most significant historical cities on the Silk Road, now a hub for the production of delicate crafts such as carpets, suzani textiles, jewelry, mosaics, oriental miniatures and musical instruments. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3TwHxfY © Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos © Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos

Sergio Larrain: Valparaíso — Los Abandonados, curated by Agnès Sire, is a new exhibition showing at Magnum Gallery in Paris from September 18 to November 30 ✨ Drawing from Larrain’s work in Valparaíso and of children abandoned to the streets of Santiago and elsewhere, the exhibition celebrates the abiding humanism of the Chilean photographer’s thoughtful and poetic images through more than 40 vintage and early gelatin silver prints. While some images may be familiar, these rare prints have never before been exhibited. “Every stone, every staircase, every sailor, every shadow and every bar became an inseparable part of the vocabulary of the great poem he wanted to write,” Sire writes of the curation.

“I wanted to choose two images that I could add to,” says Jim Goldberg. “A lot of times my process is an additive process — where I take the photograph and then I collage it, or I draw on it, or add text on it… these were images that I could do that with.” Working from his California studio, Goldberg reimagines and enhances two images from his series Coming and Going through his unique practice of experimental play. The two posters show his hands-on process and provide deeper insight into his personal evolution, vulnerability, and artistry. Signature Drop #002: Jim Goldberg launches this Friday, September 20 at 9 AM EST for three days only. Watch the full video in the article: https://bit.ly/4cWAFj2

“I have no choice but to follow my intuition. I'm kind of blessed and cursed with it,” says Jim Goldberg. In his series Coming and Going, Goldberg chronicles more than 40 years of his life through his unique practice of collage, annotation, and montage. The series, loosely following a linear narrative, offers snippets of familiar faces and references from his career to date alongside life-changing events like his father’s illness, a marriage and divorce, the birth of his daughter, the death of loved ones and the start of a new life — emphasizing the intimate connection between personal matters and public-facing projects. Through additions, reductions and other alterations, Goldberg spent two decades radically engaging with his own biography, wielding memory as a powerful and highly versatile medium. Two images from the series will be available as hand-finished posters in the upcoming Signature Drop, a quarterly-released, time-limited online sale with Magnum photographers, set to open on September 20 for 72 hours only. 🔗 Read more about Goldberg’s Coming and Going: https://bit.ly/4ec8FsF © Jim Goldberg / Magnum Photos

A new feature-length documentary by Larry Towell will be screening at Visa pour l'Image - Perpignan this Saturday, September 7 🎥 Directed by Matthieu Rytz and Hubert Hayaud, The Man I Left Behind pulls from a vast archive of photos, videos, songs and poetry, tracing Towell’s memories and coverage of his time in the field from Central America to Palestine, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Canada, shedding light on stories shaped by conflict and displacement across four decades. “I could record things that no film crew or any large production company ever could, because I was coming across things by accident, the way a still photographer does, with no script, no budget, no assignment,” Towell explains. 🔗 Learn more about the project: https://bit.ly/4e9eM0U © Larry Towell / Magnum Photos

Alec Soth produced a series of images for the Winter '24 Bottega Veneta collection by Matthieu Blazy, photographed in the arid landscapes surrounding Area 51 in Nevada and Utah, USA. His second collaboration with the brand, Soth celebrates Blazy’s whimsical imagination in a dialogue with the vast, open space of the American Southwest and its energy of resilience and rebirth. © Alec Soth / Magnum Photos for Bottega Veneta