People

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite...

Bob Adelman (born 1931) is an American photographer known for his images of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Raised on Long Island, New...

Anne Aghion was a staff member of the Magnum NY office from some time until 1999.

Magnum NY office staff member.

The son of a Swedish immigrant, William Albert Allard studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of Minnesota with the hope of...

Staff member of Magnum NY office.

Christopher Anderson was born in Canada in 1970 and grew up in west Texas. He first gained recognition for his pictures in 1999 when he boarded a...

Eve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Russian immigrant parents. She began photographing in 1946, while working at a photo-finishing...

Olivia was born in London and grew up in the UK. She studied mathematics at Oxford University and photojournalism at the London College of Printing.

Sh...

Born a photographer, Abbas is an Iranian transplanted to Paris. He has dedicated himself to documenting the political and social life of societies in...

Azzi, a Lebanese-American, was based in Beirut, where he was a member of Magnum, a contributor to National Geographic, Time and Newsweek and later...

Dmitri Baltermants appears with Magnum Photos by-line credit in The Guardian Weekend magazine issue 'Life Through a Lens' 1.1.2000

Baltermants' status...

Micha Bar-Am, who has been a Magnum Correspondent since 1968, was born in Berlin and moved with his family to Israel - then Palestine - in 1936.

Growin...

Bruno Barbey is a Frenchman born in Morocco. He studied photography and graphic arts at the École des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. Between...

Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo in 1959. He received his first camera when he was 14 years old and began photographing daily life in his native city...

Jonas Bendiksen is Norwegian and was born in 1977. He began his career at the age of 19 as an intern at Magnum's London office, before leaving for...

Nathan Benn served on the National Geographic photographic staff from 1972 into 1991. Three hundred of his photographs were published in National...

Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He...

Jack Birns (1919–2008) was an American photographer. He was well known in photographic circles as an award-winning foreign correspondent for Life maga...

Werner Bischof was born in Switzerland. He studied photography with Hans Finsler in his native Zurich at the School for Arts and Crafts, then opened a...

b. 1970

American

Based in Exeter, CA, USA

Matt Black is from California’s Central Valley, an agricultural region in the heart of the state. His work has...

Inge Bondi was born in Berlin. During World War II , she worked for the BBC's European Service. In 1946, she became the Managing Editor of "Radio Week...

Brian Brake was primarily known as a documentary photographer; his work appeared regularly in iconic photo journals Life, Paris Match, and National...

Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983), was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute to this Individuals story and their history with Magnum. 

Michael Christopher Brown was raised in the Skagit Valley, a farming community in Washington State. Often using a camera phone as a primary recording...

This is a page is a stub. Please help us by contributing.

Dan Budnik (born 1933 in Long Island, New York) is an American photographer noted for his portraits of artists and photographs of the Civil Rights...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute. 

Neil Burgess has worked as an agent, editor, curator, and publisher within the field of contemporary photography for more than 30 years. He was the...

René Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich, Switzerland. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a documentary film-maker...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Cornell Capa was born Cornell Friedmann to a Jewish family in Budapest. In 1936 he moved to Paris, where his brother Andre (Robert Capa) was working...

On 3 December 1938 Picture Post introduced 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa' with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the...

Born in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne, Henri Cartier-Bresson developed a strong fascination with painting early on, and particularly with Surrealism. In...

In his work, Chien-Chi Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute to this Photographer's story and their history with Magnum.

George Cserna was a New York based architectural photographer. Cserna was born in Budapest, Hungary on March 14, 1919. He received a degree from Minta...

Born in Marseilles, Antoine d'Agata left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. Finding himself in New York in 1990, he pursued...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Bruce Davidson began taking photographs at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. While attending Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University...

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1938, Alecio de Andrade was an Associate member of Magnum Photos from 1970 - 1976.

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Carl De Keyzer started his career as a freelance photographer in 1982, while supporting himself as a photography instructor at the Royal Academy of...

Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His...

Raymond Depardon, born in France in 1942, began taking photographs on his family farm in Garet at the age of 12. Apprenticed to a photographer...

Bieke Depoorter (*1986) received her master’s degree in photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 2009. She works mostly on...

Vojta Dukat has been nominated twice by Magnum Photos (1974 , 1976). In 1980, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, organized the first exhibition of his...

Thomas Dworzak was born in Kötzting, Germany, in 1972 and grew up in the small town of Cham in the Bavarian Forest. Towards the end of his high school...

Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece. He studied law in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist. In 1988 he started photographing...

Maria EISNER LEHFELDT (ITA), was born in Milano in 1909 where she lived until the age of 6. At the first World War her family moved to Germany, and at...

In his early days with LIFE, Eliot Elisofon had no problem being "the world's greatest photographer," or any variation thereof, if he felt that it...

Elisabeth Elliot appears with Magnum Photos credit in Minneapolis Sunday Tribute Picture Sunday Magazine: February 22 and March 29, 1959. 

This page is...

Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a...

Misha Erwitt is a native New Yorker and freelance photographer. He was a staff photographer for eleven years at the New York Daily News, where he...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute to Trudy Feliu's page and her history with Magnum.

Magnum's Former Editor-in-chief for 30 years.

This page needs more information. Please help contirubute more information regarding Jame's history with...

Born in Antwerp, Martine Franck spent her childhood in the United States and in England. She studied art history at the University of Madrid, then at...

Stuart Franklin was born in Britain in 1956. He studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design and geography at the University...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, to working-class Jewish parents of Eastern European descent, Leonard Freed first wanted to become a painter. However, he...

Jill Freedman is a highly respected New York City documentary photographer whose award-winning work is included in the permanent collections of The...

Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of...

Paul Fusco worked as a photographer with the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea from 1951 to 1953, before studying photojournalism at Ohio...

Charles Robert Gatewood (November 8, 1942 – April 28, 2016) was a photographer, writer, videographer, artist and educator, who lived and worked in San...

Born in August 1948 in Pontaillac (Charente-Maritime), France, Gaumy attended school in Toulouse and Aurillac. He received his higher education in...

Bruce Gilden's childhood in Brooklyn endowed him with a keen eye for observing urban behaviors and customs. He studied sociology, but his interest in...

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the United States Army between 1943 and 1946, before studying literature at Harvard University...

Through her photographs and now on video, Maya Goded (Mexico, 1967) explores the subjects of female sexuality, prostitution and gender violence in a...

Photographer, multi-media producer and photo-asset consultant, Mark Godfrey worked on the staff of newspapers in Tucson, Arizona; Houston, Texas and...

Jim Goldberg is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts and a member of Magnum Photos. He has been exhibiting for over 30...

John Gossage (born 1946)[1] is an American photographer, noted for his artist's books and other publications using his photographs to explore under...

Born in Rhuddlan, Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths studied pharmacy in Liverpool and worked in London while photographing part-time for the Manchester...

Harry Gruyaert, born in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1941, studied at the School of Film and Photography in Brussels from 1959 to 1962. Then he became a...

Ara Güler, born August 16, 1928 in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Turkey, is a Turkish Armenian photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the...

Karl W. Gullers (? - 1998) was among the earliest members of the ASMP. Although a frequent visitor to the U.S., he was a citizen of Sweden, and there...

Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921–September 12, 1986) was a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer. During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born...

Staff Member at the New York Bureau. Please help contribute to Pat Hagen's history with Magnum. 

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive, MF014-001, Box 1...

Philippe Halsman was born in Riga and began to take photographs in Paris in the 1930s. He opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse in 1934, where he...

Hamaya began teaching himself photography from the age of 15 and became a freelance photographer in 1937. He gained recognition in the immediate...

Harbutt was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and learned much of his photography skills from the towsnhip's amateur camera club. He later attended...

Born in Munich, Erich Hartmann was 16 years old when he went with his family in 1938 to Albany, New York, as a refugee from Nazi Germany. The only...

Born in San Francisco, David Alan Harvey was raised in Virginia. He discovered photography at the age of 11. Harvey purchased a used Leica with...

Bob Henriques, a long time affiliate of Magnum Photos, passed away in Florida at the age of 81 in 2001. During his most active years as a photographer...

Often described as a conflict photographer, Hetherington’s mission was never so simple. “Trying to understand my own fascination with conflict and war...

Abigail Heyman was an American photographer and feminist. Her 1974 book Growing Up Female became an important text for the feminist movement. After...

Born in New York City in 1930, Ken Heyman first became interested in photography in high school. Later, during his student days at Columbia College...

Thomas Hoepker studied art history and archeology, then worked as a photographer for Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall between 1960 and 1963...

Librarian for the New York Magnum Office. Please help contribute more information regarding Sam Holme's history with Magnum. 

Source: Magnum...

Frank Horvat is a photographer born on April 28, 1928 in Abbazia (Italy), presently living and working in Paris. He is best known for his fashion...

Sohrab Hura was born on 17th October 1981 in a small town called Chinsurah in West Bengal, India and he grew up changing his ambitions from one...

Born in the UK but of Welsh descent, David Hurn is a self-taught photographer who began his career in 1955 as an assistant at the Reflex Agency...

Shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, famed photographer Edward Steichen recruited Charles Fenno Jacobs (1904-1975) to join his Naval...

Jeff Jacobson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1946. After working as an ACLU lawyer in the American South, he turned to photography in 1974. He...

Book keeper and Photographer at Magnum photos. Please help contirbute more information regarding Tore Johnson's history with Magnum. 

Source: Magnum...

After studying English and American literature at Cornell University in the mid sixties, Richard Kalvar worked in New York as assistant to French...

André Kertész (July 2, 1894–September 28, 1985), born Kertész Andor, was known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and...

Japan Agent for Magnum. Please help contribute information regarding Robert Kirschenbaum's history with Magnum. 

Klich studied psychology at the University of Gothenburg and worked with adolescent children before turning to photography. He joined Magnum Photos in...

Josef Koudelka, born in Moravia, made his first photographs while a student in the 1950s. About the same time that he started his career as an...

During a visit by Magnum members to Japan in 1961, Hiroji Kubota came to know René Burri, Burt Glinn and Elliott Erwitt. After graduating in political...

Elliott Landy (born 1942) is a photographer best known for his iconic photographs of rock musicians. A 1959 graduate of the Bronx High School of...

Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895–October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression...

Sergio Larrain was born in 1931 in Santiago de Chile. He studied music before taking up photography in 1949, from which year until 1953 he studied...

Born in 1941 in Paris into a modest family from Brittany, Guy Le Querrec shot his first pictures of jazz musicians in London in the late 1950s, making...

Russell Lee (July 21, 1903, Ottawa, Illinois–August 28, 1986, Austin, Texas) was an American photographer and photojournalist, best known for his work...

Arthur Leipzig was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1918. After studying photography at the Photo League in 1942, he became a staff photographer for the...

On the Board of Directors for Magnum. Please help contribute more information regarding Paul LePercq and his history with Magnum. 

Source: Magnum...

Born in Vienna, Erich Lessing was the son of a dentist and a concert pianist. In 1939, before Lessing finished high school, Hitler's occupation of...

Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. Born into a...

Paul Lowe withdrew from Magnum Photos sometime after 1998--the only year he is known to have been a member.

Source: http://www.imaging-famine.org/sudan...

Markéta Luskačová was a nominee for Magnum Photos in 1976, a status which she held until 1980. Please help contribute information regarding Markéta...

Danny Lyon is one of the most important American photographers of the last half century to renew the documentary tradition's concern with social...

At the age of 15, Alex Majoli joined the F45 Studio in Ravenna, working alongside Daniele Casadio. While studying at the Art Institute in Ravenna, he...

Please help contribute information regarding Roger Malloch and his history with Magnum as an Associate. 

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive, MF014-001...

Constantine Manos was born in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A., of Greek immigrant parents. His photographic career began in the school camera club at...

Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism / documentary photography, portraiture, and...

Although gifted in the language of photojournalism, Peter Marlow is not a photojournalist. He was initially, however, one of the most enterprising and...

Please help contribute information regarding Jean Marquis and his history with Magnum as an Associate. 

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive, MF014-001...

Dutch photographer Peter Martens (1937-1992) was a versatile street photographer. His way of working was inspired by the long American tradition of...

Photographer, Photojournalist, Publicist, Author, Artist-of-the-Archive. Fred Mayer: is a storyteller with a camera. One manshow Fred Mayer is well...

Born in London, Don McCullin studied painting at the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts from 1948 to 1950, and worked for British Railways and as a...

Steve McCurry has been a one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers...

Susan Meiselas received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. Her first major photographic...

Please help contribute information regarding Russ Melcher and his history with Magnum as a Bureau Chief (Paris). 

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive...

Gideon Mendel is a London based South African photographer. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1959. He graduated with a degree in...

Trained as an engineer, Gjon Mili arrived in America from Albania in 1923 and began working for LIFE. He later collaborated with Professor Harold...

Please help contribute information regarding Lee Miller's history as a Photographer with Magnum.

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive, MF014-001, Box 1...

Born in Chicago, Wayne Miller studied banking at the University of Illinois, Urbana, while working part-time as a photographer. He went on to study...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Inge Morath was born in Graz, Austria, in 1923. After studying languages in Berlin, she became a translator, then a journalist and the Austrian editor...

Journalist John Godfrey Morris (1916) has spent a lifetime editing photographs for magazines and newspapers, working with hundreds of photographers...

Jean Mounicq (1931) French photographer, born in Pau. After the death of his father in 1934, he will live in Vence and Nice before joining in 1945 the...

James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). Images...

Dominic Nahr is a contract photographer for Time magazine and joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in July 2010. He is also represented by O’Born...

Lu Nan is a modest man. Though he’s a former member of the elite Magnum Photos, he shuns interviewers and avoids being photographed. His passion is...

Photographer and writer Simon Nathan, wrote columns on technical breakthroughs on photography in magazines like Popular Photography, Modern...

Michael “Nick” Nichols, a native of Alabama, is an award-winning photographer whose work has taken him to the most remote corners of the world. He...

Please help contribute information regarding George Ninaud's history with Magnum. 

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive, MF014-001, Box 1, Membership...

Homer Page (1918-1985) was born in Oakland, CA and became interested in photography as an adolescent. He enrolled at UCLA and then transferred to UC...

He previously worked as a photojournalist and editor at the Patriot newspaper (1984-1986), India Today (1986-1995), and the Outlook Group of...

Trent Parke was born in 1971 and raised in Newcastle, New South Wales. Using his mother's Pentax Spotmatic and the family laundry as a darkroom, he...

Martin Parr is a chronicler of our age. In the face of the constantly growing flood of images released by the media, his photographs offer us the...

Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture at L'Università la Sapienza, Rome, Italy before studying photography at l'istituto...

In 1972, Gilles Peress began documenting immigration in Europe. This work continues in his current ongoing project, Hate Thy Brother, a cycle of...

Please help contribute information regarding Carl Perutz's history with Magnum as a Photographer. 

For resources referring to large groups of Magnum Photographers, but does not include the entire group cohesively or exhaustively. For example, the...

Pinkhassov's interest in photography began while he was still at school. After studying cinematography at the VGIK (the Moscow Institute of...

As a child Mark Power discovered his father's home-made enlarger in the family attic, a contraption consisting of an upturned flowerpot, a domestic...

Credit given to Pramod Pushkarna in The World & I (Feb 1987) "Terror in India" article (misspelled as Pushkarwa). A collection of Pushkarna's work is...

Raghu Rai was born in the small village of Jhhang, now part of Pakistan. He took up photography in 1965, and the following year joined "The Statesman"...

Eli Reed was born in the US and studied pictorial illustration at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, graduating in 1969. In 1982 he was a...

Marc Riboud is born in 1923 in Lyon. At the Great Exhibition of Paris in 1937 he takes his first pictures with the small Vest-Pocket camera his father...

Eugene Richards; photographer, writer, and filmmaker, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1944. After graduating from Northeastern University...

Son of diplomats, Miguel Rio Branco spent his childhood in Portugal, Switzerland, Brazil and the United States. He has variously been a painter, a...

Cristina García Rodero was born in Puertollano, Spain. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Madrid, before taking up...

Born in Cheshire, George Rodger served in the British Merchant Navy. After a short spell in America, he worked as a photographer for the BBC's The...

Please help contribute information regarding Charles Roth's history with Magnum as an International Director.

Source: Magnum Foundation Archive, MF014...

Please help contribute information regarding Sanford Roth's history with Magnum.

Nate Saint appears with Magnum Photos credit in Minneapolis Sunday Tribute Picture Sunday Magazine: February 22 and March 29, 1959. 

This page is a...

His photographs chronicling the Cuban Revolution, many first published in Life Magazine, won the Overseas Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi awards in...

Sebastião Salgado (born February 8, 1944) is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist. He has traveled in over 100 countries...

Moises Saman was born in Lima, Peru, from a mixed Spanish and Peruvian family. At the age of 1 his family relocated to Barcelona, Spain, where Moises...

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, 1968, brought up in Argentina from 1970 until 2003, and is currently based in San Francisco.

She is a...

Lise Sarfati (born 1958) is a French photographer. Her images of cities in Russia and young people in the United States paint a sometimes despondent...

This page is a stub. Please contribute to this photographer's biography.

Schiller was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, and grew up outside of San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for...

Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo. It was...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Jérôme Sessini builds a passion for photography, discovering documentary photography through books shown by a friend, a photographer. He initiates his...

David Szymin was born in 1911 in Warsaw into a family of publishers that produced works in Yiddish and Hebrew. His family moved to Russia at the...

Born in London in 1929, Marilyn Silverstone graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, then worked as an associate editor for Art News...

William Eugene Smith was born in 1918 in Wichita, Kansas. He took his first photographs at the age of 15 for two local newspapers. In 1936 Smith...

Jacob Aue Sobol was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1976. He lived in Canada from 1994-95 and Greenland from 2000-2002. In Spring 2006 he moved to...

This is a stub. Please help contribute.

Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Stephen Shore...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

At the age of two, Chris Steele-Perkins moved to England from Burma with his father. He went to school at Christ's Hospital. At the University of...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Dennis Stock was born in 1928 in New York City. At the age of 17, he left home to join the United States Navy. In 1947 he became an apprentice to Life...

Born in 1970 in Philadelphia and the first member of her immediate family to graduate from high school, Strauss was given a camera for her 30th...

Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa, and is currently based in Johannesburg. 

Subotzky’s photographic work combines the...

Ms. Szasz, whose original name was Suzanne Szekely, was born in 1915 and moved to the United States after World War II, taking up photography with a...

Krijn Taconis (Rotterdam, 1918 - Canada, 1979) was a Dutch photographer. He was the first Dutchman to become a member of Magnum.

Taconis made ​​his...

According to the Washington Post obituary:

Molly Thayer was the Washington representative of the Magnum picture agency until she retired in the early...

Nicolas Tikhomiroff was born in Paris to Russian "émigrés" parents. He spent his school years in a special boarding school for children of a similar...

Larry Towell's business card reads 'Human Being'. Experience as a poet and a folk musician has done much to shape his personal style. The son of a car...

Burk Uzzle (August 4, 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American photojournalist, previously member of Magnum Photos and president from 1979 to...

Peter was born in Washington DC. He studied history at Yale, graduating with honors in 2003. 

Since 2006 he has primarily covered the 9/11 Wars and...

Rita Vandivert was the first President, and head of the New York office.

This is a stub. Please help contribute to this photographer page.

According to Venzago's website, he worked for four years for the Magnum photo agency...

John Vink studied photography at the fine arts school of La Cambre in Brussels, in 1968. He has been a freelance journalist since 1971.

Since the mid...

Alex Webb became interested in photography during his high school years and attended the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, in 1972. He majored...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Hans Wild (1912 – 1969) was a British photographer who worked for Life magazine from 1938 to 1946. Some of his best known work appeared on the cover...

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

This page is a stub. Please help contribute.

Born in Belfast in 1971, Donovan Wylie discovered photography at an early age. He left school at sixteen, and embarked on a three-month journey around...

Patrick Zachmann has been a freelance photographer since 1976 and member of Magnum Photos since 1990. He has dedicated himself to long-term projects...

Franco Zecchin was born in 1953 in Milan, Italy. He has a masters degree in nuclear physics.

In 1974 he met and fell in love with Letizia Battaglia...