Countless confined people would like to experience the world beyond their smartphones or the views outside their windows, and now they can through two benefit photography sales.
While corporate powerhouses like 3M, Brooks Brothers and Apple are ramping up production to help offset the dearth of medical-grade masks for health-care workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Magnum Photos and other photographer-led groups are offering fund-raising sales to help provide much-needed funds to Medecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders.
Magnum Photos chief executive officer Caitlin Hughes said Friday, “This is an agency that has a very strong humanist sense running right through its core. Our photographers have documented conflict and difficulty around the world wherever it is. And they feel a very strong connection to those people, who really have it a lot harder than we do.”
Magnum has a rich heritage in photojournalism and a reputation for diving straight into the eye of a storm. In 1947 — two years after the end of World War II — Magnum Photos was created by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. In more recent decades, Magnum photographers have chronicled the Chadian-Libyan conflict, the war and famine in South Sudan
While corporate powerhouses like 3M, Brooks Brothers and Apple are ramping up production to help offset the dearth of medical-grade masks for health-care workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic, Magnum Photos and other photographer-led groups are offering fund-raising sales to help provide much-needed funds to Medecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders.
Magnum Photos chief executive officer Caitlin Hughes said Friday, “This is an agency that has a very strong humanist sense running right through its core. Our photographers have documented conflict and difficulty around the world wherever it is. And they feel a very strong connection to those people, who really have it a lot harder than we do.”
Magnum has a rich heritage in photojournalism and a reputation for diving straight into the eye of a storm. In 1947 — two years after the end of World War II — Magnum Photos was created by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. In more recent decades, Magnum photographers have chronicled the Chadian-Libyan conflict, the war and famine in South Sudan
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