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The Artists in (R)evolution Collective is raising COVID relief funds for migrant workers in India. With a donation of $10/Rs.500, gain access to a weeklong screening of ten incredible films by Indian artists, including Magnum Foundation Board Member and Photography and Social Justice program mentor Sohrab Hura. This initiative runs May 9th-16th. Email or DM on Instagram to register: [email protected] // @artistsinrevolutioncollective More on Hura's fil...m, Pati (2010), made with the support of Magnum Foundation: "I still remember, a strong hot wind was blowing and the temperature was touching 50 degrees. A really young boy was trying to plough a piece of land with bullocks that were almost like skeletons. The land was all rock and I couldn’t imagine anything growing there. But he had this urgency in him as if, if he didn’t grow anything there that very day his family would starve. That was in 2005 when I went to Pati for the first time." In 2005, Sohrab Hura embarked on a fifty-day long bus journey across the north Indian rural belt immediately after completing his university studies. The journey was a final push to demand for the enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). On this journey he discovered Pati, a small cluster of village panchayats in Madhya Pradesh (central India) where he would continue to return and work for the next fifteen years.

Not granite or bronze, these new monuments by Deborah Willis, Sadie Barnette, Ebony G. Patterson, Courtney Bowles and Mark Aloysious Strandquist, and Black Quantum Futurism, consist of outdoor sculptures and photography, storefront activations and performances.

Calls for applications for the Inge Morath Award and the Arab Documentary Photography Program due April 30, stories published in TIME and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and other news - https://mailchi.mp/magnumfoundati/open-calls-and-other-news

Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce the 2021 Photography and Social Justice Fellows, eleven photographers, artists, and activists who are challenging injustice, pursuing social equality, and advancing human rights through photography - https://mailchi.mp//announcing-the-2021-photography-and-so

"Since the early 1980s, Jamel Shabazz has captured the energy of street life and hip-hop culture in New York, making indelible images of joy, style, and community."Tanisha C. Ford, Aperture Foundation

Mark your calendars for a conversation with Paul Moakley of TIME and the Alice Austen House Museum.

Soumya Sankar Bose & Yael Martínez in conversation on Wednesday, Feb 3 at 10:30am EST Instagram LIVE with 10x10 Photobooks and Chennai Photo Biennale https://mailchi.mp/10x10photobooks/instasalon-02-03-2021

Call for Applications: 2021 MF Fellowship, launching arabic-english site for the Arab Documentary Photography Program, stories published in the Crisis Magazine and TIME, and other news - https://mailchi.mp//call-for-applications-2021-mf-fellowsh

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We're accepting applications for the spring 2021 session of the Magnum Foundation Fellowship, a program that offers a stipend, mentorship on a personal project, and arts administration experience to early-career photographers based in New York City. Apply by February 25, 2021!... https://www.magnumfoundation.org//magnum-foundation-fellow

Opportunity round up from Creative Capital https://creative-capital.org//artist-opportunities-with-/

As we look towards a much-anticipated new year, we thank you for meeting this moment with your eyes and hearts trained on building a new shared future. Wishing you a restful, bright, and safe new year - https://mailchi.mp//wishing-you-a-restful-bright-and-safe-

"What struck me about Cheyenne River’s response to the pandemic was that leaders recognized early on that they were responsible for the lives of the people, and they would do everything in their power to prevent unnecessary death. The Lakota people have dealt with novel viruses before. Upon the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, Native Americans suffered unimaginable levels of death from flu, smallpox, and measles. Since then, many Native American tribes have gone to extraordinary lengths to protect their people from disease. The message I received when talking to people here was clear: The tribe must protect itself at all costs, because no one else will." Sarah Stacke, The Nation Magazine https://www.thenation.com//lakota-tribal-sovereignty-covid/