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"I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its truth; and the fullest and most intense moments in the lives of these characters as simple as they are irresistible, with all their inner strength, as a p...

"I've always been visually drawn to the night. Like many other photographers I liked the world of Brassai and Weegee. In the past I've photographed, in black and white, many parts of the underbelly and lower reaches of the night. ...

The Council of Alcobendas has awarded a prize for Alex Webb’s work, recognizing the highly humanistic and technical quality of his photographs, which show a "lyric and realistic" sense of childhood and an overall sense of being human. The winning photograph (on the left) is "Mexico. Oaxaca state. Te...

The Magnum Bookstore specializes in signed, rare and limited edition books by Magnum photographers.

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 Listener magazine, followed in 1938 by a brief stint working for the Black Star Agency. He traveled to Iran, Burma, North Africa, Sicily and Salerno, Ita...

Magnum surveys some urban legends, fears, traditional superstitions, and believers' preventive measures on this ominous Friday the 13th.

Cuba lies in a kind of limbo, awaiting a future of unusual uncertainty. Cut off from Soviet patronage for more than a decade, trying to develop a tourist trade that can harmoniously co-exist with Castro's form of socialism, dealing with an intractable and somewhat incomprehensible U.S. ...

Launch of Christopher Anderson's new book 'Capitolio'. Capitolio (published by Editorial RM 2009) is a journey through Caracas, Venezuela, at a time of intense change, a period which is underreported in the western media. The work depicts a complex vision of Caracas, its beauty and its chaos, as And...