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Working on assignment for Vogue.com, Susan Meiselas — renowned for her documentation of carnival strippers at the end of the 1970s — travelled to Las Vegas with journalist Elise Taylor to capture the legacy of the famous “Las Vegas showgirls”. Once iconic figures on the Las Vegas scene, they have been thrust back into the spotlight with the release of Taylor Swift’s new album, The Life of a Showgirl. Following several burlesque performers, Meiselas gives viewers a behind-the-scenes glimpse by photographing the showgirls before, during, and after their performances, revealing the modern reality of one of America's most iconic nightlife institutions.

A Day in the Life of the Las Vegas...

Magnum photographers documented the massive “No Kings” protests in New York City this past Saturday, October 18, where hundreds of thousands gathered to demonstrate against President Donald Trump.

Across the nation, millions of Americans joined in solidarity. Organizers reported that nearly 7 million people participated in more than 2,700 “No Kings” protests across the United States—about 2 million more than the previous round of rallies held in June.

No Kings Day

United Nations Day, observed on October 24th, marks the anniversary of the UN Charter coming into force in 1945, officially establishing the organization. Just two years later in 1947, Magnum Photos was founded in the wake of both World Wars and has since documented many of the United Nations’ missions and humanitarian efforts around the world. To commemorate the UN’s 80th anniversary, Magnum looks back into its archive, reflecting on decades of global coverage that parallels the organization’s history.

80 Years of the UN

Agony in the Garden is a series by Lúa Ribeira created in the peripheries of Madrid, Málaga, Granada and Almería. Inspired by the potential of contemporary counter-culture, she has collaborated with young people to make images that reflect on the alienation and uncertainty of the present era, resulting in a landscape suspended in time, one that appears both contemporary and ancient.

The sequence takes us through a barren, almost videogame-like landscape, where we encounter people who emerge as characters of an environment that is both local and global. The clothing, gestures and signs show affinities with and influence from online worlds and personas, echoing the extremes of hedonism and nihilism, all of which plays out in the backdrop of a rapidly homogenising world.

From this dystopian and sometimes absurd atmosphere, Agony in the Garden reflects on the current phenomenon of material overproduction, widespread precariousness, institutional violence, and ongoing financial, migratory and environmental crises.
This visceral feeling of uncertainty permeates throughout the work, whilst Ribeira’s inclusion of religious motifs and imagery nods towards more universal themes and a suspension of temporality. Underpinning all of this is a sense of tragedy and rootlessness, countered only by the energetic vibrancy of the youthful bodies that parade through the photographs.

Dalpine, 2025
Photographs: Lúa Ribeira
64 pages
ISBN : 978-84-09-74386-5

Agony in the Garden. 2025.

Bruce Gilden’s new book is a raw, unflinching portrait of England seen through the eyes of one of street photography’s most daring practitioners. From Liverpool’s football terraces to the troubled corners of King’s Cross, from surreal nights in Newcastle to bruising encounters in Welsh mining towns, Gilden captures the tension, humour, and unease of everyday life with his signature intensity.

Inspired initially by Tony Ray-Jones’ A Day Off, Gilden set out to explore England not through its postcard views, but through its grit, its danger, and its people on the edge. His stories are as vivid as his pictures; being forced out of Anfield by police on his birthday, dodging pickpockets, navigating drug-fueled confrontations, stumbling upon a faded boxing legend, and witnessing chaos in working men’s clubs.

This is not a romantic England. It’s a place where photographing often wasn’t safe, where street smarts were as essential as the camera itself. Gilden’s lens turns voyeurism into confrontation, exposing the surreal theatre of public life, moments both violent and tender, absurd and unsettling.

The result is a book that sits between documentary and personal diary: a jagged, unforgettable journey into England’s shadows, where danger and humanity collide in every frame.

Setanta Books, 2025
Hardback with gold dust jacket
300 x 230 mm
108 pages
54 images
In a limited edition of 750 copies

The Empire On Which the Sun Never...

Joan Bennett Kennedy, former wife of Senator Ted Kennedy, has passed away at the age of 89.
Raised in an affluent, suburban New York family, Joan was introduced to Ted Kennedy by his sister in 1957 and despite her concerns about rushing into marriage, the couple was wed one year later.
The pressures of political and social life, not to mention three miscarriages, led to alcohol abuse but Joan made a full recovery. After her and Ted's divorce in 1983, Joan became a proponent of mental health and substance abuse recovery.

Joan Kennedy: 1936 - 2025

Trent Parke

Magnum photographer Patrick Zachmann travels to Israel to document the second anniversary of the Hamas attacks as the ongoing war continues in Gaza.
“I decided to go to Israel when I realized that “October 7” anniversary was fast approaching. Two years after the Hamas attack of 2023, it would be time to capture images of the traces of the massacres in the kibbutzim and at the Nova festival site in the Negev. Commemorations organized by the families of hostages and those of the young people who were murdered or survived are planned.
I last visited Israel in April 2023 when large civil society protests were taking place against Netanyahu's justice bill. I have no photos from after October 7, 2023. It was an opportunity to return and, for me, a duty to remember.” Patrick Zachmann

Israel: Two Years Since October...

Actress Jane Fonda has announced the reforming of the Committee for the First Amendment. Supported by more than 550 other actors, directors, and screenwriters, this new version of the committee is dedicated to defending 1st Amendment rights and confronting the Trump administration’s attempts to repress and intimidate entertainers for political purposes.
The Committee for the First Amendment was originally formed in 1947 by Hollywood actors, writers, and directors in support of the Hollywood Ten and in response to the perceivable threat to the US Constitution’s 1st Amendment (freedom of speech) by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The McCarthyist HUAC, which was investigating US citizens accused of having communist ties, had subpoenaed ten screenwriters and directors who were then fined and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions. During the late-1940s and 1950s 300 others, mostly screenwriters, would eventually be blacklisted by studios who feared pressure from the HUAC.
Just as big names like Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee, Sean Penn, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, and Pedro Pascal appear on the list of the new committee’s supporters, the 1947 version had as well: John Huston, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Groucho Marx, Frank Sinatra, and Jane Fonda’s own father, Henry Fonda, had all been involved.
This album contains images of some of the original and new members of the committee.

Committee for the First Amendment...

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages to Gaza, 48 of whom have not returned, according to the BBC.

By September 2025, the Gaza Health Ministry reports that over 65,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s ongoing war, which escalated after the attack. In August of this year, Israel announced an expanded offensive in Gaza City, home to 2 million people, where displaced residents now face famine amid continued strikes.

As the humanitarian crisis continues in Gaza and violence escalates in the West Bank, Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice, while 157 UN member states—81% of the UN—recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.

Explore Magnum photographers documentation since October 2023, along with selections of archival coverage of Israel and Palestine.

Oct. 7 & the War on Gaza

On September 24th, 2025 former French President Nicolas Sarkozy received a 5-year jail sentence after having been found guilty of criminal conspiracy.
In 2007 Sarkozy's close aides attempted to obtain presidential campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan government. Though found guilty for criminal conspiracy, he was acquitted of other charges including corruption and illegal political campaign financing.

Nicolas Sarkozy Sentenced to Jail...

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale has passed away at the age of 87.
First gaining fame in Italy during the early 1960s, Cardinale gained international notoriety after landing a number of big roles in Hollywood productions.
An outspoken proponent of Women's Rights, Cardinale served as a UNESCO goodwill ambassador dedicated to the cause.

Claudia Cardinale: 1938 - 2025

Larry Towell recently travelled to the San Joaquin Valley of California to photograph some of its 500,000 to 800,000 farm workers, the majority of whom are Mexican-born with up to 40% being undocumented. Due to recent ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) deportations, worker numbers have decreased as illegal migrants remain hidden. According to NBC News, as of August 29, 2025, 60,930 persons from across the country were in ICE detention in the largest mass deportation in US history. As California grows 50% of America’s fresh produce and 99% of its table grapes, if farmers cannot fulfill grocery chain contracts, scarcity will create higher supermarket prices. Some labor contractors told the photographer that seasonal labor numbers are down by half. President Trump has promised to target 10 million unauthorized migrants.

Farm Labor in California

American screen icon Robert Redford has died at the age of 89.
With a decades-long career in Hollywood, he performed in a long list of celebrated films including "Barefoot in the Park," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," "All the Presidents Men," "Brubaker," "The Natural," and "Out of Africa."
Redford also received accolades as a director, most notably for "Ordinary People," "A River Runs Through It," "Quiz Show," and "The Milagro Beanfield War." Alex Webb photographed Redford during the production of the latter.

Robert Redford: 1936 - 2025

The desert as seen by Raymond Depardon through 60 years of political reporting, photographic commissions, film shoots and personal explorations in North Africa and the Middle East. Eleven countries, their landscapes, peoples and conflicts, immortalised in black and white by a legend of photojournalism.

Publisher Fondation Cartier
ISBN 2869251890
Format 22,40 x 31,00 x 3,50 cm
Pages 344

Raymond Depardon, Désert

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of beloved Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, aged 78.

Chris Steele-Perkins was born in 1947 in Rangoon, Burma, now Myanmar. His father was English, and his mother Burmese. From the age of two, he lived in Burnham, England, with his father, and attended school in Sussex, before studying Psychology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He worked on the student newspaper and was inspired to become a photojournalist by documentary essays he had seen in The Sunday Times by photographers including Don McCullin.

For the first two decades of his career, Steele-Perkins focused his work on social conditions in Britain. Living in London in the 1970s, he photographed the capital’s residents and customs, including street parties in Brixton, where he lived. In 1975, he joined the Exit Photography Group. With Nicholas Battye and Paul Trevor, he documented inner city poverty from Glasgow to Middlesbrough, during a time of economic transition in urban Britain. The resulting book, Survival Programmes, includes interview transcripts, drafts and other materials, forming a thorough reportage of both social values and social justice.

Steele-Perkins’s work with the Exit Group sought to weave together different types of social violence against poor communities in Britain at the hands of the government, whose military strategies in Northern Ireland became the blueprint for police expansion across many major British cities. In Belfast, Steele-Perkins met individuals who squatted in the city’s Divis Flats, and portrayed the lives of its Catholic communities. This work was later collected in his 2021 publication, The Troubles.
“I intended to cover the situation from the standpoint of the underdog, the downtrodden: I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so,” he wrote in the introduction to The Troubles. “I was interested in how life was lived in its various facets, not just the rioting and the military occupation, though I couldn’t ignore that which was so prevalent, but also the leisure, the entertainment, the homes, the fun, the funerals and the community. I was not there to illustrate a thesis but to enter the unknown, interacting and responding, and attempting to remain honest. […] I began to see that my work in Northern Ireland had always been a celebration of the resilience and unyielding way that the Catholic community resisted.”

Pursuing his interest in socio-political conflicts, Steele-Perkins also captured racist movements and their counter-movements in Britain in the late 1970s and ‘80s, when right-wing political parties such as the National Front were gaining support. His series for the Sunday Times Magazine took him to Wolverhampton, where he explored the lives of ethnic minorities ten years after Enoch Powell’s controversial speech condemning immigration in Britain. In 1979, he photographed South Asian communities protesting in Southall, West London in response to the death of left-wing activist Blair Peach, who was thought to have been killed by a police officer.

Steele-Perkins’ three-year project on 1970s revivalists of the Teddy Boys, a subculture that began in the 1950s, further attests to his interest in investigating the various facets of British identity and his dedication to immersing himself in his subject matter. Traveling across England, he documented not only the revived trend but the everyday lives of the rebellious youth. The project became his seminal book The Teds, published in 1979. “What I tried to do was to document a subculture, and quite a major one in British society,” he said. “I went into their homes and documented them in all kinds of contexts, and the clothes, in the end, became relatively peripheral to the whole thing. […] It’s much more about identity and who we are.”

That same year, Steele-Perkins joined Magnum Photos, and turned his focus to stories further afield. Initially planning to visit Zimbabwe for a week, he stayed in Africa for two months, an experience that inspired his gravitation towards the continent over the next two decades.
Compelled to document social phenomena and the complexities of the human condition, Steele-Perkins’s projects were often driven by his personal curiosity. “Things grabbed me. The Teds grabbed me. The inner city problems grabbed me. Africa, for 20-odd years, grabbed me.”

In the 1980s, he took vivid images exploring people’s leisure pursuits in Thatcher-era Britain, published in the book The Pleasure Principle. “Previously my work had been focused on particulars of Britain: poverty, sub-culture. I did not have any parallel reality against which to properly assess my position,” he wrote in an interview around the book. “Exposure to other cultures, the massive shifts in relationships to people, the direct confrontation with the fact that things are different. Really different: worse, better, harder, more dangerous, shocking, fabulous, relaxed, harmonious… A kaleidoscope of experiences, of often extraordinary power, could not help but change my relationship to England…

“Now there was a sense of almost anthropological detachment, a heightened sense of life’s oddity, and the peculiarly surreal forms it takes in England.”

It was during this time that he made his transition into color photography, though some major projects, such as his 1994–1998 investigation of Afghanistan, were in black and white, still the favored medium of many photojournalists at the time. The photobook Afghanistan captures the photographer’s visceral experience of the country and its people: “It was heroic, beautiful, violent, twisted, gracious, and tragic,” he said. “The experience of being there works its way into one’s being; an infection of the soul demanding that you return.”

After his marriage to Miyako Yamada, Steele-Perkins embarked on a long-term photographic exploration of Japan, publishing Fuji in 2000. “Life got better and far more complicated, as it does when you fall hopelessly in love,” he said. “I now had a compelling reason for being in Japan and for photographing Japan, wanting to understand a place that had suddenly given me so much.” His book Echoes, a highly personal, diaristic account of his life over the course of the year 2001, is an intimate vignette of time passing and the reverberations of memory.

In 2007, he published Tokyo Love Hello, a love letter to the capital, along with Northern Exposures, a documentation of rural life in County Durham. In 2009, he published England, My England, a retrospective collection piecing together 40 years of photographing the country. His book on British centenarians, Fading Light, was published in 2012 and A Place in the Country, a year in the life of an English country estate was published in 2014. His project documenting diversity and migration in London was published in the photobook The New Londoners in 2019.

The photographer’s poetic approach to the medium is felt throughout his expansive career, during which he saw his images as “the fragments of memory, the silent echoes of experience.”

Steele-Perkins lived in East Dulwich in South London during the later period of his life, before moving to Japan with his wife Miyako. He passed away peacefully, aged 78, with Miyako at his side.

Gregory Halpern, Magnum Co-President, writes: “It is with deep sadness that we reflect on the passing of Chris Steele-Perkins. Chris had a gift for finding lyricism in daily life — whether in the defiance and style of the Teddy Boys in The Teds, the resilience and struggle of communities across the UK in England, My England and The Troubles, or the quiet, intimate landscapes and portraits of Japan in Fuji. His photographs could be both tender and unsparing, revealing both dignity and difficulty in equal measure, and they have shaped the way many of us think about what photography can do.

“For 46 years, Chris was a vital part of Magnum Photos. His powerful photography helped define what photojournalism could be. His dedication to storytelling and generous mentorship shaped countless colleagues and inspired photographers and audiences everywhere.

“Our thoughts are with his family and friends. His loss is felt deeply within Magnum, but his influence will continue — in the images he leaves behind, and in the example he set for so many photographers who came after him.”

Chris Steele-Perkins : 1947-2025...

"La Causa" is the name given to the Delano grape strike, a labor movement that began in 1965 in Delano, California, led by Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers fighting for better wages and working conditions. This historic strike lasted more than 5 years and resulted in contracts for more than 10,000 workers. It launched the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) and made leader Cesar Chavez one of the most celebrated figures of the 20th century.

La Causa: The Delano Grape Strike...

In 1970, while a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Susan Meiselas was living in a boarding house at 44 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. What began as a class project evolved into a deeply empathetic portrait of community domestic life. Meiselas photographed her neighbors in the building—many of them strangers—inside their rooms, initiating a collaborative exchange by sharing contact sheets and inviting written responses. These reflections appear alongside the photographs, offering insight into how her subjects saw themselves.

Boarding houses like 44 Irving Street were transitional spaces, yet Meiselas found individuality and self-expression in each room. Her portraits—full of personal detail and visual texture—reveal a rich inner life often hidden in shared housing. The handwritten letters act as a kind of written punctum, a counterpoint to the image that pierces the surface with honesty and introspection.

This early body of work helped shape Meiselas’s enduring approach to photography as a form of connection and dialogue. “It wasn’t about the formalism of photography,” she notes. “It was about the narrative and the connectivity.”

44 Irving Street, 1970–1971 marks the first time this complete series has been published in book form. The book includes two tip-ins: a photograph and a contact sheet from the original project.

TBW Books, 2025
66 pages, 46 plates
ISBN 978-1-942953-81-4

44 Irving Street, 1970-1971

Since April 2025, the sixteen statues around the spire of Notre-Dame, representing the twelve apostles and the symbols of the four evangelists, have been moved from the "Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine" and gradually returned to their original locations around the spire of Notre-Dame, after workers replaced damaged sections and cleaned away corrosion.

Starting on April 15, 2025, photographer Patrick Zackmann documented the transfer, arrival, and installation of the statues until the final one, representing Saint Thomas, was placed back on July 24. Currently hidden by scaffolding, all statues will be fully visible by the end of August.

The statues of Notre-Dame's spire...

The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014, triggered by Ukraine's Maidan Revolution. Over the following eight years, the conflict escalated with naval skirmishes, cyberattacks, Russia's annexation of Crimea and support to pro-Russian separatists fighting against Ukraine’s military in the ongoing Donbas War. In February 2022, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, deepening its occupation and igniting the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has caused a massive refugee crisis and led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives.

Magnum Photographers have been documenting the Russo-Ukrainian War since 2014, capturing scenes from the front lines and inside both countries, illustrating the impact of the war on people's daily lives. The selection below showcases our ongoing coverage in the region, which has spanned over a decade.

Russo-Ukrainian War

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