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Iranian Memoir In this essay, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranian Memoir In this essay, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Iranian Memoir In this essay, young Iranian-Americans whose parents fled the Iranian revolution in 1979 and started a new life in the USA remember Iran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time of Change "Time of Change" is a testament to the everyday lives of the people who fought against accepted social norms of segregation, poverty, and discrimination. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Caribbean Passages Alex Majoli explored the lives of Jamaican immigrants in Great Britain. Using photographs blended with video and audio, he tells the story of the daily lives and struggles shared by each. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haiti By Magnum On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince.   Magnum takes a look back at Haiti before the earthquake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haiti By Magnum On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince. The devastation – in lives lost, property destroyed, and families displaced – is immense. Magnum In Motion takes a look back at Haiti before the earthquake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 30 Years For A Trial On February 17th, 2009, the trial of Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, in charge of the S21 interrogation center during the Khmer Rouge regime, started at the ECCC. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The East Was Tugging At My Soul "I went to India in 1959 for what was meant to be four months and I stayed for 14 years," Marilyn Silverstone once said. Then, in 1977, Silverstone took another life-changing step: she gave up her career as photographer and became a Buddhist nun. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Franck Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Power Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Bendiksen Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Soth Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring D'Agata Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Parr Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Majoli Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Pellegrin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Dworzak Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Pinkhassov Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Spring Into Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington DC During this historic time in United States history, Paolo Pellegrin photographed Washington, D.C. as the symbolic center of the Nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Train of Thought On April 3, 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces had launched an assault on Jenin refugee camp, home to some 14,000 Palestinians. Larry Towell photographed the aftermath. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace TV " Islam means “Peace” – internal and external. It is essential, therefore, to know, practice and propagate Islam to attain peace in this life and the hereafter." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faces of Joy Washington D.C., January 20th, 2009 Change has come: the street has a voice too! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hussein Obama President Obama's middle name is in honor of his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama. “Hussein” is a derivative of the Arabic name Hassan, meaning “to be good,” “Husayn” is the affectionate form. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last Days of W Alec Soth's images are paired with Bushisms, which refers to mispronunciations, unconventional words and phrasings by George W. Bush. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Era As thousands of people gather in Washington for Inauguration Day, Peter van Agtmael takes a reality check and shoots his way through the ecstatic crowds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obamania On January 20th, 2009, masses of people gathered on the Mall in Washington D.C. to witness the inauguration of President Obama. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Has a Ball Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Un Jour, La Nuit When haunting a giant metropolis, I stay awake all night. I’m attracted to artificial lights, a reflection on a face, a silhouette projected on a wall that turns it into a screen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2006 Revolution "But as it turned out, I was witnessing the beginning of the end of the long conflict - when King Guyenendra seized absolute power in February 2005, he inadvertantly enabled the Maoist insurgents to ally themselves with the disenfranchised democratic forces of the country. The result was the people's uprising in April 2006, where hundreds of thousands took to the streets to oust the Hindu monarchy." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blood, Nails and Prayers The Philippines is the largest Christian country in Asia where devotees take their religion very seriously. The wilder excesses of the faith are best seen during Easter festivals where re-enactment of biblical stories clim Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Sleep of Reason He leaves New York in search of answers to calm the profound anxiety he feels. Perhaps it's the combination of the economy and the thieves behind it with the election and its' rancor. Perhaps it's just him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Foreclosures American, born 1946 Bruce Gilden specializes in observing urban behaviors and customs, from the beach at Coney Island to the shacks of Haiti. After joining Magnum in 1998, he tackled the streets of New York City, culminating in “Facing New York” (1992) and “A Beautiful Catastrophe” (2005). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Scarecrow He travels through the landscapes, the small towns and counties of the "narrow victories" of 2000 and 2004 to get to a Sarah Palin "barn" rally. Again he looks for answers in the faces of her supporters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keyword: Moon Internet keyword searches enable a wide world to slip into view, often times with surprising results. This week we play with "Moon". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ghost Town Thomas Dworzak's poignant essay on New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina provides an eyewitness account of one of America's most horrific natural disasters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Vietnam The percentage of Vietnam’s population infected with HIV is still low, at less than 1 percent. Most Vietnamese living with HIV became infected through contaminated needles while injecting drugs, and within this group, the rate of infection is radically higher. Because heroin and other drugs are cheap and casual use is common, HIV infection through drug use affects a larger part of the population in Vietnam than in many other countries. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Swaziland Swaziland has the highest rate of HIV infection in the world, with more than one quarter of its population infected. Some 130,000 children have been orphaned or made vulnerable by the death of one or both of their parents. With so many infected, AIDS is impacting every aspect of life in Swaziland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Bridge To Somewhere Having gone to Youngstown for a Hillary Clinton rally where only the truly faithful showed up, they stumble upon the opening of a new bridge. The new structure is dedicated to the "Fallen Firefighters" but seems to be equally dedicated to "Mr. Peanut." This section is dedicated to previous viewers who complained about the coverage of Youngstown as "bleak".. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: South Africa With more than 5.5 million people living with HIV, South Africa remains the country with the highest number of infected people in the world. As in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, the face of AIDS is more and more a female one, and in some areas of South Africa, women are three times as likely to be infected as men. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Red and The Blue A Sunday morning drive takes them to a McCain rally in a wealthy suburb of Columbus surrounded by vast malls. There the main action is outside where the McCain and Obama supporters square off in a classic tit-for-tat, young versus old, have versus have not exchange. The red and the blue divide in action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Rwanda Despite its troubled recent history, Rwanda’s rapid effort to combat AIDS has made free lifelong treatment available to 44,000 people—up from 4,000 people who had started treatment just five years ago. Rwanda stands out as one of the success stories in Africa, and is a model for how health care can reach all communities. Yet AIDS remains a serious health problem in a country rebuilding from war and genocide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Russia After the fall of the Soviet Union, a wave of drug use swept over Russia, addicting hundreds of thousands of young people. With heroin injection came the spread of HIV, rapidly infecting more than 1 million Russians. Russia’s is among the world’s most rapidly expanding AIDS epidemics, and frequently, those infected are diagnosed too late to be saved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to life: Peru AIDS in Peru has hit men who have sex with men, drug users, and commercial sex workers the hardest. Programs that make free AIDS treatment available require a person to pass “adherence” testing, showing that they have family or community support to help them stay on treatment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Mali In Mali, HIV is transmitted mainly through sex. Nearly 2% of Mali’s population of more than 12 million is infected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: India India's AIDS epidemic has been fueled mainly by unprotected sex. Estimates are that more than 2.5 million Indians are living with HIV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Haiti Haiti and the Dominican Republic together account for 3/4 of HIV infections in the Caribbean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008 Olympic Athletes Paolo Pellegrin photographed some of the worlds top athletes as they prepared for this year's Olympic Games in Beijing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vietnam "I decided to be the one to show what was really going on in Vietnam. Here was something of profound importance. My goal was to present every aspect of the war in a digestible way between two covers of a book." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Middle East “It’s not actually the dead, the physical destruction, that takes the toll: It’s this sense of this endless cycle. It’s hard to go and watch the similar sort of circumstances play themselves out over and over again.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lebanon "While covering the war in Lebanon, bombs and missiles were exploding around us, but you never saw who was launching them. It was different from all the wars I had covered before. This might be the way future wars look." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuban Revolution In 1956, Fidel Castro and less than 24 rebels fled into the Sierra Maestra mountains and mounted a two-year-long insurgency against the Batista dictatorship, known as the 26th of July Movement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Capitolio "I sometimes imagine Caracas as a living breathing animal. Obscured by the darkness it appears both violent and sensual, but perhaps it's true nature will only be revealed at the moment it devours me." - Christopher Anderson Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 68 "I came back to Paris in spring 1968, where big riots were taking place. For weeks my clothes were saturated with the persistent smell of tear gas. It was the rebellion of a whole generation against what the society prepared."—Barbey Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chechnya / Iraq “I’m embedded with the Americans in Iraq. As a Westerner, there is no more access to the insurgent’s side. I don’t claim to have any overview. History made my choice—it’s fine!” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wakes September was already a dark month for New Yorkers. Then the bull market died. Gilles Peress attended the memorials at the World Trade Center and at Wall Street. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nepal's Maoists In 2005, I went to Nepal to photograph Nepal's Maoists rebels. Lodged in their mountain safe areas, they had already fought a decade long insurgency against the Kathmandu-based establishment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rat Story Bruce Gilden’s special brand of tough Brooklyn-bred bravado pierces through in one breath in this “leftover” story about one particular rat. He burst into this hilarious monologue, lasting two minutes and eight seconds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Soul Hunt Air, water, earth, fire are the four elements used in pagan rituals, be they by the shamans of Siberia, the Voodoo in Haiti, the Dogon of Mali, the Shinto in Japan, or the Bari of the Amazon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silicon Forest Akademgorodok (Academic City) is the center of Russia's science industry. It was created during the Cold War by the Soviet Union, and is located in a Siberian forest where winters are minus 4 to minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit. This is how it exists today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Georgian Diary The Russians invaded Georgia on August 8th, while George W. Bush was in Beijing attending the Olympics. Twenty days passed and Barack Obama was officially named the Democratic Party candidate for the 2008 presidential run. In the meantime, the escalating harsh conflict in Georgia left Europeans and Americans aghast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Satellites Between 1998 and 2005 I traveled through the fringes of the former Soviet empire, exploring the oblique stories of half-forgotten enclaves and restless territories. Many of these places are quaintly obscure, but as I came to discover, they offer stark proof that the breakup of the Soviet Union is still a work in progress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgian Troops in Iraq 2004 - 2008 With nearly 2,000 Georgian troops returning home in the midst of the crisis there, the coalition has lost what one senior military official called one of the largest and most capable contributions to the Iraq effort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pop Sixties Magnum In Motion presents a multimedia piece in conjunction with the forthcoming book Pop Sixties, published by Abrams, and furnished with photographs exclusively from Magnum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Planet, One Chance Rich countries are already preparing public health to deal with future climate shocks. For poor countries it is much harder: they need international support to adapt. We are drifting into a world of adaptation apartheid. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Los Angeles Alessandra Sanguinetti joined Magnum as a nominee in 2007. Her photographs are included in museums and and private collections. Her book, “On the Sixth Day,” was published in 2006. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York Capturing the true diversity that makes this city great, this selection of images spans Erwitt's career, including many previously unseen works from the '50s and the '60s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Georgia On His Mind Georgian President's trip to New York, to pledge support for his country after the August Russian invasion. Mikheil Saakashvili famously had Boney M. perform near Tzkhinvali in what he calls the "disco approach to conflict resolution". Now he is working his US and Western allies and media. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Downward Spiral "During the few days that I spent on Wall Street, exactly one week after its worst days since 1929, a sense of shock and stupor pervaded the atmosphere as the exchanges continued to oscillate from the very negative to the barely positive." - Paolo Pellegrin Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Mali In Mali, HIV is transmitted mainly through sex. Nearly 2% of Mali’s population of more than 12 million is infected. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: Haiti Haiti and the Dominican Republic together account for 3/4 of HIV infections in the Caribbean. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access to Life: India India's AIDS epidemic has been fueled mainly by unprotected sex. Estimates are that more than 2.5 million Indians are living with HIV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taliban These portraits of Taliban soldiers were collected by Dworzak during his coverage of the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002. It is thought that most of these pictures are from Taliban members who had to flee the advancing opposition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy New Year Fireworks, dancing and lots of champagne and promises to do things better next year. Anticipation, celebration, hangover. This essay celebrates the ritual of New Year's Eve. Magnum wishes everybody a happy one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website From the Shah to Khomeini The Iranian Revolution that began in 1978 was arguably one of the most important revolutions in history turning a largely secular monarchy into a radical Islamic republic. In this story Abbas gives us an unparalleled coverage of this revolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Dubai Film Festival or How I Became a Paparazzo Glittering skyscrapers built on sand, Christmas trees taller than palm trees, mock Arab architecture, a ski slope in the desert, make the whole of Dubai a film set. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Merry Christmas Who is Santa Claus? In China "Dun Che Lao Ren," in Sweden "Juletomten". In USA the Coca Cola Company invented the white and red Santa. In Italy he is black and white. All around the world Santa Claus is celebrated with different rituals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Empty Orchestra One night and one roll of film. Chien-Chi Chang's photographs of "a night in a karaoke bar" explore a seedy side of karaoke, seldom seen in western establishments. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names In "Istanbul: City of A Hundred Names", Magnum photographer Alex Webb presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past, and most of all as a border city. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Earthlings I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I’ve always tried to play with the false impression of reality, with the ambiguity of appearances. Things are what they seem to be, or maybe something else. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hotel Afrique A journey into a part of African society that is rarely represented. In the most poverty-stricken parts exists a quite different quality of life and people, apparently disengaged from the harsh realities surrounding them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taliban These portraits of Taliban soldiers were collected by Dworzak during his coverage of the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002. It is thought that most of these pictures are from Taliban members who had to flee the advancing opposition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Oscar The Oscar is an American symbol of excellence in acting, directing, and screenwriting. This story explores the intrigue, the ardor, and the occasional triviality of the Academy Awards, as seen by Magnum Photographers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Libera Me This story is a personal exploration of loss, separation, heaven and hell. Inspired by Pirandello's play "Six Characters in Search of an Author", Majoli elaborates on the notion that we are all "actors of life". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Malaria Each year 350 to 500 million people are diagnosed with Malaria. This essay documents the life and struggles of africans affected by the disease and the tangible steps people are taking to eradicate it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Living Proof In 2005, David Alan Harvey began photographing local emcees in the Bronx River Projects. Harvey traveled to Hollywood and then went global to document a culture a mere three decades in existence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Point and Shoot The sleek perfection of the German Luger compared to the crude British Sten gun. I fired all of them. That was all a long time ago. In retrospect it was a form of catharsis. I became a pacifist dedicated to non-violence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coney Island For ten years, (1970-1980) Bruce trudged Coney's sandy beaches and boardwalks in his work boots and fishing hat, two cameras slung around his neck, himself an unordinary beachscape sight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terre Rouge In Cambodia, where nearly everything is for sale, land is bought and sold with little regard for the people who live on it. The number of evictions has exploded, leaving thousands without means of subsistence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Guantanamo As his first order of business, President Obama, signed executive orders to close Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and end the C.I.A.'s secret interrogation program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viet Nam at Peace Griffiths comments on a selection of images from his book Viet Nam at Peace, a monumental chronicle of the conditions in post-war Viet Nam with over 500 black and white images Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Requiem in samba The music of samba formed the backdrop for Italian photographer Alex Majoli's time in Brazil. Looking to escape Europe and the life he knew, Majoli came to Brazil in 1995. Living in the poor favelas, he encountered a beautiful but violent culture and discovered a powerful outlook on life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Water Day In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated March 22 as "World Water Day". More than 1 billion people around the world lack clean, safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation services. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Personal Best Elliott loves dogs, beaches, nudists and religion as "interesting photographic topics." Explaining why he has to do books, he says, "I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red on AIDS Day Around forty million people are living with HIV throughout the world - and that number increases in every region every day. World AIDS Day, 1 December is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niagara For Alec Soth, Niagara Falls wasn't merely a tourist destination but a place whose cultural identity let him explore the human inability to sustain the intense emotional peaks of new love and passion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joy Happy Holidays from MagnumInMotion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Minutes to Midnight Trent Parke captured "Minutes to Midnight" during a two-year journey across Australia at the end of which his son was born. It is both a document of a nation mourning the loss of a perceived innocence and a man's vision and evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niagara For Alec Soth, Niagara Falls wasn't merely a tourist destination but a place whose cultural identity let him explore the human inability to sustain the intense emotional peaks of new love and passion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website War In Lebanon Christopher Anderson covered the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel from its first days. In this story he gives a look behind the frontlines of the war through pictures and sound that he recorded in the field. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chicago 1946 - 48 We may differ in race, color, language, wealth, and politics. But look at what we all have in common. If I could photograph these universal truths, I thought that might help us understand. - Wayne Miller Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Katrina Larry Towell and novelist Ace Atkins set out to cover the wake of Hurricane Katrina. An intimate one week road trip through a strange landscape became a tribute to human endurance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Burma: Behind the Conflict The current conflict in Burma is just the latest symptom of a political and social disorder that has plagued the country for decades. Writer Brendan I. Koerner, comments on the background of its current troubles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Costly Dream Women from Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are migrating in increasing numbers to the Middle East, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan to work as live-in domestic workers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fashion Magazine Bruce Gilden romps likes a bull inside a china shop, pouring his irreverent attitude and his love of eccentric characters into a seven- part magazine that explores the sins of fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fashion Magazine Bruce Gilden romps likes a bull inside a china shop, pouring his irreverent attitude and his love of eccentric characters into a seven- part magazine that explores the sins of fashion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chernobyl Legacy Chernobyl, ukraine, nuclear meltdown, radiation, documentary photography, magnum photographer, magnuminmotion, magnum photographer, Magnum In Motion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Minutes to Midnight Trent Parke captured "Minutes to Midnight" during a two-year journey across Australia at the end of which his son was born. It is both a document of a nation mourning the loss of a perceived innocence and a man's vision and evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Agenda "Martin Parr's photographs can make us feel very uncomfortable. He has made a comedy about the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the places we go; scrutinized the very way we live our lives." - Val Williams Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Color As a showcase of the sundry layers of American society, Constantine Manos' curiosity for his country's diversity is presented in a set of saturated images that engage both eye and mind. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bolivian Elections Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Way Of Communicating From her geometric studies to expressive landscapes and vibrant portraits, photographer Martine Franck uses black-and-white photography as "a release from the distraction of color." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Coney Island Sitting on the outskirts of the five boroughs, the world famous pleasure beach, Coney Island, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, has been the summer destination for New Yorkers since its heyday in the 1890s. In the early days, its recreation empire astonished, delighted and shocked the nation. As pointed out by pbs.org, it took Americans from the Victorian age into the modern world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vietnam at Peace Griffiths comments on a selection of images from his book Viet Nam at Peace, a monumental chronicle of the conditions in post-war Viet Nam with over 500 black and white images. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Train of Thought On April 3, 2002, the Israeli Defense Forces had launched an assault on Jenin refugee camp, home to some 14,000 Palestinians. At least fifty-two Palestinians were killed and more than a quarter of the camp's population were left homeless. Larry Towell photographed the aftermath. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington DC During this historic time in United States history, Paolo Pellegrin photographed Washington, D.C. as the symbolic center of the Nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website South Southeast "Steve is an artist, a photographer, and a traveler who uses photography as a way to experience the world. He doesn't shirk from a gale. He doesn't wince at a storm." - Anthony Bannon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hippies "To persevere as a photographer, you have to keep moving. Exchanging locations, one for the other, the newness of the subject and your arrogance to believe that you can see it differently are the driving forces...My subjects, the hippies, are simply people who have sought a less conforming way to explore this conforming life that we all lead." - Dennis Stock Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heroes From Latvia to Brazil, Afghanistan to Leros, Alex Majoli escapes his self. He now escapes photojournalism to focus on "simple people". He erased the context of the photograph. The people are alone on a black background. Majoli lights them up with "the light of God". They are the Heroes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Path to Buddha "Interesting, isn't it, that we ascribe to Steve's contemplative behavior a Buddhist way, but indeed, he is not a practicing Buddhist. Having the mind of someone who is searching for something that he or she doesn't know yet: That's the mind of a beginner. The person who hasn't made up their mind is always willing to change their mind and always willing to allow new things to fill up their mind. That's a mark of his work, I think, and it's why we value it." Anthony Bannon Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Whisper No Sigh An introspective photo essay built around the concept of silence - from the societal silence surrounding madness; to that most personal silence, the intense desire to express oneself and unburden the soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Wake of Katrina Larry Towell, and novelist, Ace Atkins, set out to conver the wake of the hurricane Katrina. This became an intimate one week road trip through a strange landscape and a tribute to human endurance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tour De France Covering the Tour de France for over 60 years, Magnum Photographers have captured all the elements that make the race the greatest event in cycling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 11 Many have seen the images of the collision, the burning towers, the fall and the rubble. Eight Magnum Photographers give their eyewitness accounts of the attack and their perspectives on the consequences, five years later. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Personal Best Elliott loves dogs, beaches, nudists and religion as "interesting photographic topics". He says: "I have to do books, I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Divided Germany Two years after Berlin had been divided by a wall into an eastern and a western part, Kristall magazine sent Hoepker to document how the citizens of West Berlin, especially the children, had adjusted to living in the shadow of the wall. In an effort to improve relations between East and West Germany, Willy Brandt later arranged an exchange of journalists. Hoepker's wife was among those allowed into East Germany and he was able to go with her. Touring the region for the first time since it h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Minutes To Midnight Following a journey of 90,000 kilometers, Trent Parke explored the Australian hinterland in an attempt to find his place within an Australia vastly different from the one in which he grew up. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 7/7 The Longest Week 7/7 The Longest Week is a dizzying trip through the thicket of emotional headlines that appeared in the British press in the wake of the July 2005 terrorist attacks in London. Presenting headlines that seem to one-up each other in drama and intensity, 7/7 is a case study in media language and motive that also examines the psychological effects of news sensationalism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mennonites Larry Towell first encountered the Mennonites near his home in Ontario, Canada, and his friendship with them has gained him unique access to their communities. Originating in Europe in the sixteenth century, the Mennonites are a Protestant religious sect, related to the Amish. Rather than compromise their way of life, they have continually been forced to migrate around the world to maintain their freedom to live as they choose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fashion Magazine Like a bull in a china shop, Bruce Gilden lets loose with Fashion Magazine, a high-concept, tongue-in-cheek take on the glossy conventions of the fashion world. In the seven-part magazine, Gilden recasts the world of beauty and glamour through his up-close and aggressive street photography style. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website No Man's Land The US-Mexico border is neither one country nor the other. Alex Webb has spent more than twenty-five years photographing the region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crossings The US-Mexico border is neither one country nor the other. Alex Webb has spent more than twenty-five years photographing the region. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Khmer Boxing In Khmer it is called "Brodal Serei". In Thailand it is "Muay Thai". Both Thailand and Cambodia claim the origin of this type of kickboxing. It seems to have been invented in the peninsula at the beginning of the 9th century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Requiem in Samba Living in the poor favelas of Brazil, photographer Alex Majoli encountered a beautiful but violent culture shaped by the constant specter of death. During his time there, he also discovered a different outlook on life captured in the sounds of samba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chernobyl Legacy The nightmare of Chernobyl continues to be a painful reality for those exposed to its radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl Legacy, Paul Fusco faces the human tragedy of the world's worst nuclear energy disaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website American Color In "American Color", Constantine Manos has created a set of fascinating images that engage both the eye and mind in repeated viewings and contemplation. Photographing mostly in exotic locales and at public events within the United States, such as Venice Beach and Atlantic City, Bike Week at Daytona Beach and Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Manos presents a kaleidoscopic view of American culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Niagara Niagara Falls has long been a destination for newlyweds and lovers. Alec Soth traveled there to explore just why it is that Niagara is associated with sexuality, passion and new love. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Armstrong A singular symbol of the nature of jazz could be Louis Armstrong as he appears in the images by Dennis Stock. The legendary trumpeter and vocalist embodies the rootless, lonely and frantic life that many of his great colleagues experienced. This essay gives an exclusive look into his life accompanied by Dennis Stock's personal tale of working with the musician. A desire to understand the nature of jazz can be fulfilled by regarding Louis Armstrong as he appears in the images by Dennis Stock ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Red on AIDS Day Friday December 1st. is World AIDS Day. We have chosen to recognize the event with an essay inspired by the color red. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Satellites Satellites is a surreal and fantastic journey by 28-year-old award-winning photographer Jonas Bendiksen through the scattered enclaves, unrecognized mini-states, and isolated communities in the southern borderlands of the former USSR. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Satellites Satellites is a surreal and fantastic journey by 28-year-old award-winning photographer Jonas Bendiksen through the scattered enclaves, unrecognized mini-states, and isolated communities in the southern borderlands of the former USSR. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Augusto Pinochet 1915-2006 Brutality defined Pinochet's rise to power. Only snapshots remain of disappeared opponents. Dissidents who fled joined human rights organizations worldwide but never saw him convicted despite his 1998 arrest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joy An assortment of joyful images from around the world, from children's delight at the cinema to family gatherings. Happy Holidays from everyone at Magnum. 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On the other hand the camp has helped to generate a degree of intelligence. It is difficult to put these two things together,� says Pellegrin. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website World Water Day In 1992, the UN General Assembly designated March 22 as "World Water Day" to draw international attention to the critical lack of clean, safe drinking water worldwide. Despite the apparent abundance of clean water in the US and most of the developed world, more than 1 billion people around the world lack clean, safe drinking water and more than 2.6 billion lack adequate sanitation services. Magnum In Motion Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blood, Nails and Prayers The Philippines is the largest Christian country in Asia where devotees take their religion very seriously. The wilder excesses of the faith are best seen during Easter festivals. Depictions of Christ�s last days and the re-enactment of obscure biblical stories climax with human blood flying off the backs of those who whip themselves and real crucifixions using six inch nails. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taliban These portraits of Taliban soldiers were collected by Dworzak during his coverage of the fall of the Taliban regime in 2002. It is thought that most of these pictures are from Taliban members who had to flee the advancing opposition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2007 Nominees For the first time in two years Magnum Photos welcomes new nominees. Mark Power and Peter Marlow give their insight into the nomination process which is rigorous to say the least. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Windows Internet keyword search enable a wide world into view, often times with surprising results. 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