| | | | | | | | | Thomas Dworzak: Amusement Park, Georgian Spring: A Magnum journal, 2009 © Thomas Dworzak | | | | | Open for Business | | | | Magnum photographers on commission | | | | | | | Artist Talk (online): Tuesday 20 April 2021, 6pm CET | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jonas Bendiksen: Chery Relnel, who lives with his wife Claudette who is also HIV positive, Plateau Central, Haiti, 2007
© Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos | | | | | | In an event accompanying the current presentation "Open for Business – Magnum photographers on commission", the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam host a digital Artist Talk with the two Magnum photographers Jonas Bendiksen and Thomas Dworzak. The curators of the exhibition, Anne-Marie Beckmann (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation) and Mirjam Kooiman (Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam) will discuss the special challenges of working on group commissions.
Group commissions have a long tradition in the history of the agency. They are popular with photographers, which is also due to the fact that they often require them to travel to unusual locations. The assignments not only provide many photographers with the opportunity to work commercially, but also unite different perspectives on a given topic.
Jonas Bendiksen (*1977, Norway) travels the world for his long-term photo projects. Among his works is a photojournalistic series about the peripheral regions of the former Soviet Union compiled over many years and published in the book “Satellites” in 2006. He has been a Magnum photographer for over a decade.
Thomas Dworzak (*1972, Germany) has worked as a photojournalist since the 1990s and has since documented many of the most important events of the 21st century, among them the Afghanistan and Iraq battlegrounds following the 11 September terrorist attacks. A long-time member of Magnum, he served as president of the renowned agency from 2017 to 2020.
The exhibition "Open for Business – Magnum photographers on commission" shows commissioned works from six decades by more than 50 photographers of legendary agency Magnum Photos, offering insights into fascinating and lesser-known parts of their portfolio.
For more than 70 years Magnum photographers have documented the world's major events and hidden stories. Simultaneously, many of these same photographers have worked on assignments for fashion brands, governments, NGOs and industries. Although not recognised by a wider public as 'Magnum' work, the images do play a vital role in the Magnum story. It also embodies the complex cultural position of photography, sitting as it does at the intersection of art, documentary and commerce.
"Open for Business" takes a critical look at Magnum's commissioned work from the 1950s to the latest assignments from 2019. It reveals interactions between commercial and independent production, highlights the way photographers shaped or changed visual languages of corporations and how they have played with assignments through their own free interpretation, resulting in surprising, ironic and humorous outcomes.
The exhibition has been developed in cooperation with Magnum Photos Paris, Foam Amsterdam and „Les Rencontres de la photographie Arles". It was curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, and Mirjam Kooiman, Foam Fotografie Museum Amsterdam.
More information: here
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