Photo agency Magnum Photos to partner with the Berlin Photo Week

GaryPageau

 

Outside view of the Arena Berlin, 2022, © Markus Nass, courtesy BERLIN PHOTO WEEK

To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of Magnum Photos, the world-famous photo agency is celebrating this occasion together with the BERLIN PHOTO WEEK (BPW) and partner institutions in Berlin. Numerous exhibitions, conferences, workshops, book signings, talks and many other events will be taking place at this year’s BERLIN PHOTO WEEK, Sept. 2-9, 2022. A group of photographers from Magnum are travelling to Berlin for the occasion. The BERLIN PHOTO WEEK is a partner of IFA, the international consumer electronics show

The festival of events and exhibitions surrounding the seventy-fifth anniversary of Magnum Photos will be taking place at Arena Berlin, the main venue for this year’s BPW, and at numerous other partner institutions such as the Helmut Newton Foundation, C/O Berlin, Reinbeckhallen, CHAUSSEE 36, Loock Galerie and Robert Morat Galerie.

“It is a great honour for us to be able to organise the festivities for the seventy-fifth anniversary of Magnum Photos in Berlin,” said Benjamin Jäger, the art director of BERLIN PHOTO WEEK. “As a result of this wonderful collaboration with numerous cultural institutions from Berlin, together we are able to organise world-class cultural highlights around the entire city, thus underlining Berlin’s role as one of the most important major cities for photography.”

“We are greatly looking forward to the many events that we are organising together with the BERLIN PHOTO WEEK and its partner institutions.,” said Andréa Holzherr, Global Exhibitions director, Magnum Photos. “The slogan of our seventy-fifth anniversary is ’In Dialogue’, and our aim is to engage in a dialogue with Berlin and the public here in this city.“

The world-renowned photo agency was founded by four photographers – Robert Capa, Henri Cartier- Bresson, George Rodger and David “Chim” Seymour. They established Magnum Photos in 1947 at the MoMA’s Penthouse Restaurant in New York, with the idea of expressing their independence as both people and photographers.