Magnum Photographers

Antoine d'Agata

Christopher Anderson

Zied Ben Romdhane

Jonas Bendiksen

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Chien-Chi Chang

Raymond Depardon

Bieke Depoorter

Nikos Economopoulos

Stuart Franklin

Cristina Garcia Rodero

Philip Jones Griffiths

Gregory Halpern

Philippe Halsman

David Alan Harvey

Constantine Manos

Cristina de Middel

Paolo Pellegrin

Gueorgui Pinkhassov

Miguel Rio Branco

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Ferdinando Scianna

Marilyn Silverstone

Lindokuhle Sobekwa

Jacob Aue Sobol

Chris Steele-Perkins

Mikhael Subotzky

Newsha Tavakolian

Nicolas Tikhomiroff

Peter van Agtmael

Patrick Zachmann

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A. Abbas

An Iranian transplanted to Paris, Abbas first dedicated his work to document the political and social life of societies in conflict such as Biafra, Vietnam, South Africa under apartheid and the Revolution in Iran. He then undertook a series of major essays on Islam, Christianity and Paganism, each one spanning many years. He is presently examining how religion - which he defines as culture than faith - is replacing political ideology as the driving force behind international conflict.

Alec Soth

Alec Soth became a Nominee of Magnum Photos in 2004 and a Member in 2008. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he has received fellowships from the McKnight and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography.

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York, 1968, brought up in Argentina from 1970 until 2003, and is currently based in New York. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant. Her book, "On the Sixth Day", was published by Nazraeli Press in January 2006. She has photographed for the The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, Newsweek, and New York Magazine.

Alex Majoli

Alex Majoli was born in Ravenna, Italy in 1971. After showing an early interest in photography, he joined the f45 studio in Ravenna at the age of 15. In 1989, he became a full-time photojournalist and joined the Grazia Neri agency the following year, producing photographic narrations about religions in Italy and on the Balkan wars. A Magnum Member since 2001, Majoli lives and works in New York and Milan.

Alex Webb

Alex Webb was born in San Francisco and became interested in photography during his high school years. He is best known for his vibrant and complex color work, especially from Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published seven books and has shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979.

Antoine d' Agata

Born in Marseille in 1961, Antoine D'Agata left France in 1983. Finding himself in New York in 1990, his interest in photography led him to take courses at the International Center of Photography where his classmates included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. In 2004, he joined Magnum Photos. D'Agata lives and works in Paris.

Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson discovered photography at a young age on the streets of Oak Park, Illinois. When he was drafted into the army and stationed in Paris, Davidson met Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1957, having finished his military service, Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for "Life" magazine, and in 1959 he became a member of Magnum. Davidson continues to live and work in New York City.

Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden's childhood in Brooklyn endowed him with a keen eye for observing urban behaviors and customs. After studying sociology, his interest in photography was sparked by seeing Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blow Up", after which he began taking night classes in photography at the New York School of Visual Arts. In 1998, Gilden became a member of Magnum.

Bruno Barbey

Bruno Barbey is a Frenchman born in Morocco and studied photography and graphic arts at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. Over four decades, Barbey has journeyed across five continents and through numerous world conflicts. Though he rejects the label of 'war photographer,' he has covered civil wars in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Middle East, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Kuwait. Barbey has been a Magnum member since 1968.

Burt Glinn

Born in 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn studied literature at Harvard University whilst editing and photographing for the "Harvard Crimson" college newspaper. After college, Glinn worked for "Life" magazine before becoming a freelancer. In 1951 Glinn, along with Eve Arnold and Dennis Stock, became an associate member of Magnum - the first Americans to enter the young photo agency.

Carl De Keyzer

Carl De Keyzer started his career as a freelance photographer in 1982 while supporting himself as a photography instructor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. His interest in the work of other photographers led him to co-found and co-direct the XYZ Photography Gallery. A Magnum nominee in 1990, he became a full member in 1994.

Chien-Chi Chang

Alienation and connection are the subjects of much of Chien-Chi Chang's work. His investigation of the ties that bind one person to another - and to society - draws on his own immigrant experience. Chang joined Magnum Photos in 1995. He lives and works in Taipei and New York City.

Chris Steele-Perkins

Chris Steele - Perkins was born in Rangoon in 1947 and moved to London with his family at the age of two. At the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he studied psychology and worked for the student newspaper. In 1971, he started working as a freelance photographer in London. Steele - Perkins joined Magnum in 1979 and has worked extensively in the developing world.

Christopher Anderson

Born in British Columbia in 1970, Christopher Anderson spent much of his early years in Texas and Colorado before moving to New York City. Anderson joined the VII Agency in 2002, became a Magnum nominee in 2005 and an Associate in 2007.

Constantine Manos

Constantine Manos was born in South Carolina to Greek immigrant parents in 1934. His photographic career began in the school camera club when he was 13. His chronicling of the Boston Symphony Orchestra resulted in the book "Portrait of a Symphony", which brought him initial recognition. Manos joined Magnum Photos in 1963.

Cornell Capa

Born Cornell Friedmann at the end of the First World War to a Jewish family from Budapest, Cornell Capa moved to Paris in 1936, where his brother Andre Friedmann (Robert Capa) was working as a photojournalist. Following his brother's tragic death in 1954, Capa joined Magnum Photos. He is now Founding Director Emeritus of the International Center for Photography in New York.

Cristina Garcia Rodero

Cristina García Rodero was born in Puertollano, Spain. She studied painting at the University of Madrid, before taking up photography. García Rodero worked as a teacher while researching and photographing popular and traditional festivities - religious and pagan - principally in Spain but also across Mediterranean Europe. She has been a member of the agency Vu for more than 15 years, and a Magnum member since 2009.

David Alan Harvey

Born in San Francisco in 1944, raised in Virginia, David Alan Harvey discovered photography at the age of eleven. Harvey purchased a used Leica with savings from his newspaper route and began photographing his family and neighborhood in l956. When he was twenty, David lived with and documented the lives of a black family living in Norfolk, Virginia. With these photographs he published his first book "Tell It Like It Is" in 1966. Harvey went on to shoot over 40 essays for National Geographic Magazine. He has published two major books, "Cuba" and "Divided Soul", both based on his extensive work of the Spanish cultural migration into the Americas. David came to Magnum as a nominee in 1993 and became a full member in 1997. Harvey lives in New York.

David Hurn

Born in the United Kingdom, David Hurn is a self-taught photographer who began his career in 1955 as an assistant at the Reflex Agency. While a freelance photographer, he gained his reputation with his reportage of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Hurn became an Associate of Magnum in 1965 and a full Member in 1967.

David Seymour

David Szymin was born in Warsaw in 1911 to a family of printers and publishers. Adopting "Chim" as his nickname, Szymin began working as a freelance photographer. From 1934 his picture stories began to appear regularly in "Paris-Soir" and "Regards", one of the first illustrated magazines. Through the new Alliance agency, Chim met Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, and was one of the founding members of Magnum.

Dennis Stock

Dennis Stock was born in New York City in 1928. Evoking the spirit of America through his memorable and iconic portraits of Hollywood stars, Stock is also know for his famous portraits of jazz musicians and California in the 1960s. Stock has generated a book or an exhibition almost every year since the 1950s, and has taught numerous workshops and exhibited his work widely. He joined Magnum in 1951 and became a full member in 1954.

Donovan Wylie

Born in Belfast in 1971, Donovan Wylie discovered photography at an early age. By the age of sixteen, when he left school, he was already making book dummies of his photographic works. His first book was "32 Counties: Photographs of Ireland", accompanied by texts from thirty-two Irish writers. In 1997 he became a full Member of Magnum Photos.

Eli Reed

Born in New Jersey in 1946, Eli Reed studied pictorial illustration at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. He began photographing as a freelancer in 1970. Reed attracted the attention of Magnum in the fall of 1982 with his work on Central American countries. He was nominated to the agency the following summer, and became a full Member in 1988.

Elliott Erwitt

Born to Russian parents in Paris in 1928, Elliott Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, Italy, before emigrating to the United States. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom. Erwitt joined Magnum in 1953 at the invitation of Robert Capa. He continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits.

Erich Hartmann

Erich Hartmann was sixteen when he came with his family in l938 to Albany, New York, as refugees from Nazi Germany. Hartmann's poetic approach to science, industry and architecture shone through the photo essays completed for major publications. Invited to join Magnum in l952, Hartmann was for many years on the Board of Directors, becoming President in l985.

Erich Lessing

Erich Lessing worked as a reporter and photographer for the Associated Press upon his return to his birthplace of Vienna in 1947 after serving in the British Army as an aviator and photographer. He was invited to join Magnum by David Seymour, one of the agency's founders, whom he had met in Strasbourg while both were photographing the first meeting of the Council of Europe in 1950. Lessing became a full member of Magnum in 1955.

Eve Arnold

Eve Arnold was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Russian immigrant parents. Arnold, made a full Magnum member in 1957, was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and in 1995 was also elected Master Photographer - the world's most prestigious photographic honor - by New York's International Center of Photography (ICP).

Ferdinando Scianna

Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of Palermo. It was then that he began to systematically photograph the Sicilian people and their festivities. Using dramatic light and dark shadows, Scianna's style contains elements familiar to the Italian neo-realist film movement. Scianna joined Magnum Photos in 1982 and became a full Member in 1989.

George Rodger

Born in 1908 in England to a family of Scottish background, George Rodger initially wanted to be a writer before becoming a self-taught photographer. His pictures of the London Blitz brought him to the attention of "Life" magazine, and from 1939 to 1945 he was one of their war correspondents. In 1947, Rodger joined Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and Bill Vandivert in founding Magnum.

Gilles Peress

Gilles Peress, born in 1946, studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, and then the Universite de Vincennes. In 1972, Peress joined Magnum Photos, whereupon he began documenting immigration in Europe. This work continues in his ongoing reportage, "Hate Thy Brother", a cycle of documentary stories that describe intolerance and the re-emergence of nationalism in the years since World War II.

Gueorgui Pinkhassov

Interested in photography since his school days, Gueorgui Pinkhassov studied cinematography at the Superior Institute of Cinematography in Moscow from 1969-1971. After serving in the military for two years, he worked in a team of cameramen and later as a film stills photographer for the studio Mosfilm. In 1988, he joined Magnum Photos and became a Member in 1994. Pinkhassov moved to Paris in 1985, where he is still based.

Guy Le Querrec

Guy Le Querrec's political view of society and his background in jazz have informed much of his photography. Born into a modest family from Brittany in 1941, Le Querrec took his first pictures as a teenager with an Ultrafex 4.5x6. In the late 1950s he focused on jazz musicians in London, and in the following decade Le Querrec completed his first reportages in Francophone Africa. Le Querrec joined Magnum in 1976.

Harry Gruyaert

Born in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied at the School for Cinema and Television in Brussels from 1960 to 1963. Gruyaert then began freelance fashion and advertising work in Paris while working as a director of photography for Flemish television. This experience helped him to sharpen his photographic sensibility, which he went on to apply to various projects around the world. He joined Magnum Photos in 1981.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Born in France in 1908, Cartier-Bresson developed early on a strong fascination with painting, with a particular interest in surrealism. In 1932 Cartier-Bresson discovered the Leica, his camera of choice from then on, and began a life-long passion for photography. Known for his concept of the "decisive moment", Cartier-Bresson co-founded Magnum Photos with Bill Vandivert, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour in 1947.

Herbert List

Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. Born into a prosperous Hamburg merchant family in 1903, List began an apprenticeship at a Heidelberg coffee dealer in 1921 while studying literature and art history at Heidelberg University. In 1951, List met Robert Capa, who convinced him to work as a Contributor to Magnum.

Hiroji Kubota

After graduating in political science from Tokyo's University of Waseda in 1962, Hiroji Kubota told his mother that he wanted to be a photographer. Soon after, he traveled to the United States to continue his studies. He became a freelance photographer in 1966, joining Magnum Photos in 1970.

Inge Morath

Inge Morath was born in Graz, Austria, in 1923. A friend of photographer Ernst Haas, she wrote articles to accompany his photographs and was invited, alongside Haas, to Paris by Robert Capa to join the newly-founded Magnum agency. She began photographing in London in 1951, and assisted Henri Cartier-Bresson as a researcher in 1953-54. In 1955, after working for two years as a photographer, she became a member.

Jacob Aue Sobol

After studying at Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography, Jacob decided to visit a settlement of 150 people on the east coast of Greenland. Over the next two and a half years he mainly lived in this township with his girlfriend Sabine and her family, living the life of a fisherman and hunter. In 2004 the book Sabine was published. In photographs and narratives it depicts his encounter with Sabine and life on the east coast of Greenland.

Jean Gaumy

Raised in the southwest of France, Jean Gaumy began working as a writer and photographer for a local newspaper in Rouen while studying literature at university from 1969 to 1972. In 1973, he joined the Gamma photo agency then, four years later, Magnum Photos.

Jim Goldberg

Jim Goldberg is considered one of today's most respected photographers. His work with various sub-cultures and use of image and text are a landmark in the field. His photographs have appeared in George, Esquire, Gear, Colours, Dazed and Confused and Nest magazines. Jim Goldberg joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002 and became a Full Member in 2006.

John Vink

John Vink, born in Belgium in 1948, studied photography at the fine arts school of La Cambre in Brussels. He has been a freelance journalist since 1971. Vink came to public attention in 1986 when he was awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography. Vink joined the Vu agency in Paris in 1986, then Magnum Photos in 1993, becoming a full Member four years later.

Jonas Bendiksen

Norwegian Jonas Bendiksen began his career when he, twenty years old, arrived by boat in the Far East Russian port of Vladivostok. He spent the next years based in Russia, working on stories around the outer fringes of the former USSR, resulting in the recently published book "Satellites". Now based in New York, he travels extensively, often focusing on isolated enclaves and communities.

Josef Koudelka

Born in a tiny village in the Czechoslovakian province of Moravia, Josef Koudelka began in his teenage years to photograph his family and surroundings. His photographs of the Prague Spring, which were smuggled out of the country, distributed by Magnum and published in the international press under the anonymous initials P.P. (Prague Photographer), became icons of the event and symbols of the resistance. Koudelka became a member of Magnum Photos in 1974.

Larry Towell

Larry Towell's business card reads "Human Being". Like Robert Doisneau, he is one of those rare photojournalists who travels reluctantly and only when the subject really matters. Experience as a poet and a folk musician did much to shape his personal style, and wherever he travels, Towell concentrates on finding and photographing intimacy.

Leonard Freed

Born in Brooklyn, New York, to working-class Jewish parents of Eastern European descent, Leonard Freed began taking photographs while in the Netherlands in 1953. Photography became Freed's method of exploring societal violence and racial discrimination, and his coverage of the American civil rights movement brought him initial distinction. Freed became a full member of Magnum in 1972, and for the rest of his life worked on numerous assignments for the major international press.

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Marilyn Silverstone

Born in London, Marilyn Silverstone graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts before working as an associate editor for "Art News", "Industrial Design" and "Interiors" during the 1950s. In 1955 she began to photograph professionally as a freelancer, working in Asia, Africa, Europe, Central America and the Soviet Union. Silverstone became an Associate Member of Magnum in 1964, a full Member in 1967, and a Contributor in 1975.

Mark Power

Mark Power was born in Harpenden, England in 1959. He took up photography accidentally, after studying painting at Brighton Polytechnic, and worked in the editorial market until 1992, when he began teaching. This coincided with a shift towards long-term, self initiated projects, which now sit comfortably alongside a number of large scale commissions in the industrial sector.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr was born in Epsom, Surrey in 1952. As a boy, his grandfather encouraged his interest in photography, and Parr went on to study it at Manchester Polytechnic. He has since worked on numerous photographic projects that flaunt his provocative photographic style, one humorously defined by the moral atrophy and preposterousness of modern times. In 1994 he became a Member of Magnum.

Martine Franck

Martine Franck grew up in the United States and in England. She studied art history at the University of Madrid and at the École du Louvre in Paris. In 1970, she joined Vu photo agency, and two years later contributed to the founding of the Viva agency. In 1983, Franck became a full member of Magnum Photos.

Micha Bar-Am

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. Known primarily for his coverage of the jewish-arab conflict since the Sinai War in 1956, Bar-Am is a recipient of the Robert Capa Award.

Mikhael Subotzky

Mikhael Subotzky was born in 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the winner of 2007 Young Photographers Award at Perpignan, The 2007 KLM Paul Huf Award, The Special Jurors Award at the 2005 VIes Recontres Africaines de la Photographie in Bamako and the 2006 F25 Award for Concerned Photography. His work on crime and incarceration in South Africa has been widely acclaimed and exhibited in numerous galleries and museums worldwide. His prints are held in the permanent collections of the South African National Gallery (Cape Town), The Johannesburg Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

Nicolas Tikhomiroff

Nicolas Tikhomiroff was born in Paris to Russian émigré parents in 1927. After finishing his military service, Tikhomiroff found work in the darkroom of a fashion photographer. Using a Rolleiflex, he began to take photographs for many magazines, and joined Magnum in 1959. He has contributed to an important Magnum project on World Cinema, as well as numerous photo stories on subjects such as the Algerian War, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Nikos Economopoulos

After studying law in Italy, Nikos Economopoulos worked as a journalist and photographer in Greece. In 1990, Economopoulos joined Magnum, and his photographs began to appear in newspapers and magazines worldwide. The same year, he started to take photographs in the Balkan region. His work there gained him the Mother Jones Award in 1992, which was followed by the publication of his book "In the Balkans" in 1995.

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Paolo Pellegrin

Paolo Pellegrin, born in Rome, initially studied architecture before discovering his passion lay in photography. Known for his ability to traverse distinct subjects and themes within photography, Pellegrin maintains an artistic eye for images that are both spare and dramatic. Pellegrin became a Magnum Nominee in 2001 and has been a full Member since 2005.

Patrick Zachmann

A freelance photographer since 1976 and member of Magnum Photos since 1990, Patrick Zachmann has dedicated himself to long-term projects that bring to light the complexity of the identity and culture of the communities he investigates. He is fascinated by the themes of immigration and cultural and social fragmentation, and most of his photographic and film work relates to these issues.

Paul Fusco

Paul Fusco was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1930. Working as a photographer with the United States Army Signal Corps in Korea from 1951-53, Fusco studied photojournalism at Ohio University after the war. He then moved to New York where he became a staff photographer with "Look" magazine. Fusco became a Magnum associate in 1973 and a full member the following year.

Peter Marlow

Peter Marlow, one of the most enterprising and successful British news photographers, was born in 1952. Marlow joined the Sygma agency in Paris in 1976. Assignments in Lebanon and Northern Ireland in the 1970s brought Marlow wide distinction as an international photojournalist. He joined Magnum Photos in 1981 and became a full Member in 1986.

Peter van Agtmael

Peter van Agtmael was born in Washington DC. He studied history at Yale, graduating with honors in 2003. In 2005, he covered the Asian Tsunami, then relocated to Johannesburg, South Africa and photographed the AIDS epidemic. In 2006, he traveled to Iraq twice, spending nearly half the year on embeds. Peter became a Magnum nominee in 2008.

Philip Jones Griffiths

Born in Rhuddlan, Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths worked in London while photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. Griffiths became famous for his 1971 book on the war, "Vietnam Inc.", which crystallized public opinion and was essential in formulating Western misgivings about American involvement in Vietnam. An associate member of Magnum since 1966, Griffiths became a full member in 1971.

Philippe Halsman

Latvian by birth, Philippe Halsman began taking photographs in Paris in the 1930s. He opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse in 1934, where he photographed Gide, Chagall, Malraux, Le Corbusier and other writers and artists. Halsman came to the United States in 1940, and his work soon won international recognition. In 1951 he was invited by the founders of Magnum Photos to join the organization as a contributing member.

Raghu Rai

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" newspaper as its chief photographer. Impressed by an exhibit of his work in Paris in 1971, Henri Cartier-Bresson nominated Rai to join Magnum Photos in 1977.

Raymond Depardon

A largely self-taught photographer who received his first camera at the age of twelve, Raymond Depardon co-founded the Gamma photography agency, becoming its director in 1974. In 1978 he left Gamma to become a Magnum associate, becoming a full member the following year.

Rene Burri

Rene Burri made contact with Magnum through Werner Bischof, and his first reportage on deaf-mute children, "Touch of Music for the Deaf", was published in Life and other European magazines. He became an Associate of Magnum in 1955, and a full Member in 1959.

Richard Kalvar

After studying literature at Cornell University, Richard Kalvar worked in New York as an assistant to fashion photographer Jérôme Ducrot. It was the extended trip with a camera in Europe in 1966 that made him decide to become a photographer. Kavlar moved from New York to Paris where he joined Vu photo agency. He then co-found the Viva agency in 1972, and five years later became a Member of Magnum Photos.

Robert Capa

Robert Capa earned the title 'The Greatest War Photographer in the World', after his photographs of the Spanish Civil War earned him his international reputation. In 1947, Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger and William Vandivert. In 1951 he became president of Magnum, three years before his untimely death in Indochina.

Sergio Larrain

Sergio Larrain was born in Santiago de Chile in 1931. He studied music before taking up photography in 1949. In 1953 he presented his first exhibition in Santiago de Chile, resulting in a commission to take photographs of children living in the streets of Santiago. Thus began Larrain's work as a freelance photographer. He became a Magnum Associate in 1959 and a full Member in 1961.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry, recognized as one of the world's finest image-makers, has won many of photography's top awards. Best known for his evocative color images, McCurry endeavors to capture the essence of human struggle and joy in the finest documentary tradition. Many of his photographs have become modern icons.

Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design. He also holds a BA and a PhD in geography from the University of Oxford. During the 1980s, he worked as a correspondent for Sygma Agence Presse in Paris, before he joined Magnum Photos in 1985.

Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas' first major photographic essay focused on the lives of women doing striptease at New England country fairs. In 1976 Meiselas joined Magnum Photos and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, which were published widely throughout the world.

Thomas Dworzak

Thomas Dworzak was born in Koetzting, Germany in 1972. In his late teens, he began to travel and photograph in Europe and the Middle East. After photographing the war in former Yugoslavia, he lived in Georgia from 1993 until 1998. During this period he documented the conflicts in Chechnya, Karabakh and Abkhazia. A Magnum Member since 2004, Dworzak covers mainly the conflicts following the 9/11 attacks.

Thomas Hoepker

Thomas Hoepker, who studied art history and archaeology, began his career working as a contract photographer for "Munchner Illustrierte" in 1960. He joined "Stern Magazine" in 1964. Specializing in reportage and stylish color features, he has received numerous awards for his work. Hoepker became a Member of Magnum Photos in 1989.

Tim Hetherington/IWM

Tim Hetherington was born in Liverpool, UK. Known for his long-term documentary work, Tim lived and worked in West Africa for eight years. As a film maker, he has worked as both a cameraman and director/producer, his directorial debut film Restrepo, being about a platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan. Tim was tragically killed on 20th April 2011 while covering the conflict in Libya.

Trent Parke

Trent Parke was born and raised in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Using his mother's Pentax Spotmatic and the family laundry room as a darkroom, he began taking pictures when he was around 12 years old. Today, Parke, the only Australian photographer to be represented by Magnum, has one of the most vivid visual signatures in Australian photography.

W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1918. He took his first photographs working for local newspapers at the age of 15. After leaving Notre Dame University in 1937, Smith went to the South Pacific as a correspondent for Ziff-Davis Publishing, entering World War II on the front lines of the island-hopping American offensive. Smith joined Magnum in 1955, and four years later changed his status to contributing photographer.

Wayne Miller

Born in Chicago in 1918, Wayne Miller worked part-time as a photographer while studying banking at the University of Illinois. After serving as lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, Miller settled in Chicago, where he won two consecutive Guggenheim Fellowships. "The Way of Life of the Northern Negro" was later published as the book "Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948". Miller joined Magnum Photos in 1958, and is currently a Magnum contributor.

Werner Bischof

Werner Bischof was born in Zurich in 1916. From 1932 to 1936 he studied photography at Zurich's School for Arts and Crafts, before opening a photography and advertising studio. Bischof became the first photographer to join the original Magnum founders in 1949.