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Now on view: the second exhibition of the collaborative Beyond the Silence project is showing at Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravoin in Oaxaca, Mexico 🇲🇽 Open until January 26, 2025, the installation examines censorship and propaganda through three projects: Magnum photographer Rafał Milach's interviews with Oaxacan residents on their perceptions of security and war crimes; Mexico’s Daniel Orlando Lara Garcia's exploration of cartel activity and the resulting systemic violence; and Ukrainian photographer Sasha Kurmaz's study on photography's role in manipulating public opinion. 🔗 Learn more about the projects: https://bit.ly/49IAp7j © Rafał Milach / Magnum Photos

On assignment for Libération, Emin Özmen reports from Syria alongside journalist Luc Mathieu, following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government on December 8. Özmen traveled to Damascus, where he captured scenes of celebration in the city’s Umayyad Square as crowds gathered with Syrian independence flags to mark the end of the Al-Assad regime. Meanwhile, eight kilometers south of Damascus in Yarmouk, he documented the ruins of a district once home to Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee population. Following violent clashes between government forces and opposition fighters, the area has been mostly destroyed. Özmen, who is from neighboring Turkey, has spent over a decade documenting the Syrian Civil War, from its early phases to the fracturing of militias and militant groups, and the ensuing refugee crisis. 🔗 Read the article: https://bit.ly/400CXdF © Emin Özmen / Magnum Photos for Libération

A series by Antoine d’Agata around the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner Nihon Hidankyo is currently on view at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴 In November, D’Agata traveled to Japan to document the lives and stories of members of the prize-winning grassroots organization, composed of “hibakusha,” or survivors of the 1945 American nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibition brings together past, present and future through a three-part series that sees him explore the collective trauma caused by the use of atomic weapons. Presented are a sequence of immersive images from his photobook Acéphale, alongside portraits of members of Nihon Hidankyo, and the next generation of its peace activists on the island of Itsukushima, living alongside wild Sika deer. 🔗 Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3ZFrBKN © Antoine d'Agata / Magnum Photos

Thomas Dworzak has received the Photojournalism Award from the Press Gazette British Journalism Awards 👏 Dworzak was recognized for his work on assignment for 1843 Magazine, documenting the plight of ethnic Armenians displaced by the Azerbaijani military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh in September 2023. He traveled to Goris, an Armenian border town where a large number of those displaced first arrived, and Yerevan, its capital, where citizens held protests and mourned loved ones lost. The judges at the awards ceremony deemed the series “a sensitive and deeply moving set of photos which reveal an untold story and provide a visual record of the human toll of geopolitical conflict.” 🔗 Read the announcement: https://bit.ly/4gvkMlQ © Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos

On assignment for DIE ZEIT, Myriam Boulos shares images from Syria following the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government on December 8, which marked the end of more than five decades of the brutal al-Assad regime. On December 10, Boulos photographed from Sednaya Prison located north of Damascus, as families surged into the prison searching for traces of their long-lost relatives. 🔗 View the full story: ⁠https://bit.ly/4fenZF9 © Myriam Boulos / Magnum Photos

Only two days to go until the Magnum x The Standard Hotel Pop-Up Shop ✨ This holiday season, Magnum and The Standard celebrate with an exclusive pop-up at The Standard Hotel, East Village, New York. Join us from December 13–15 to explore a selection of rare and contemporary Magnum photobooks, prints and posters, in addition to a book signing with Gregory Halpern, Matt Black, Susan Meiselas, Bruce Gilden, Alec Soth and Yael Martínez on Saturday, December 14 from 11 AM to 2 PM. 🔗 Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/4g5gYrN © Rafał Milach / Magnum Photos

Join Jacob Aue Sobol in an online workshop designed to inspire and nurture your ability to develop a distinctive photographic voice 🗣️ Across five weekly sessions in February and March next year, participants will embark on the journey of creating photographs with visual distinction under Aue Sobol’s mentorship, engaging in individual and group portfolio reviews as well as exploring editing and sequencing possibilities. "A powerful photograph doesn’t just represent the person or place it depicts; it evokes a deeper reflection in the viewer, inviting them to consider their own existence,” says Aue Sobol. 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4g5tx66 © Jacob Aue Sobol / Magnum Photos

In the third Signature Drop, now live, Sohrab Hura presents his diptych, Cats and Stars, a pair of signed posters that engages two disciplines within his evolving practice: his first, photography, and his newest, painting. The diptych represents both an ode to the common cat and a rediscovery of joy in artistic practice, acting as a gentle reminder to meander, to play and to remain curious. Both pieces feature the motif of stars; as catchlights in the eyes of “Francoise," and in the bold, green sky of his gouache tableau. "The photograph of the cat, which features in Life is Elsewhere, comes from a time when I was working really freely with photography. I was experimenting with the medium itself, trying to find magic in light,” says Hura. "Now, this is a feeling that I’m beginning to rediscover as I go back to drawing and painting.” Each poster is signed by Hura, available until Monday, December 9 at 9 AM EST. 🔗 Read the article about the drop: https://bit.ly/41liSzK © Sohrab Hura / Magnum Photos

The first exhibition of the collaborative Beyond the Silence project is now on view at the Egin Art Space in Almaty, Kazakhstan, until this Sunday, December 8. Beyond the Silence, launched earlier this year via a global open call, now brings together projects by selected photographers from Southeast Asia, Mexico, Nigeria, Ukraine and Kazakhstan around the themes of occupation, annexation, colonialism and censorship. Focusing on the concept of "territory", the first exhibition features Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak and his work along Kazakhstan’s northern border, Ukrainian photographer Mykhaylo Palinchak and a series of stories from people in recently liberated Ukrainian territories, and Kazakh photographer Yadykar Ibraimov’s project on the eastern border of Kazakhstan, focusing on Uyghur communities. 🔗 Read more about the three projects: https://bit.ly/4g0McA2 © Thomas Dworzak / Magnum Photos

Since April 2019, Patrick Zachmann has documented the reconstruction of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, from the night of the fire through to the present day, creating a thorough record of the monumental restoration efforts made by an estimated 2,000 craftspeople and artisans. Using his privileged access to the work site, Zachmann has navigated tall scaffolding and steep stairs to photograph the cathedral from all angles and terrains, keeping meticulous notes of the reconstruction process. The cathedral’s reopening will be inaugurated this December 8, marking over five and a half years since the initial fire. © Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos