Magnum Photos

In 1947, following the aftermath of the Second World War, four pioneering photographers founded a now legendary alliance. Combining an extraordinary range of individual styles into one powerful collaboration, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour started, over a celebratory bottle of champagne, the most important artists' cooperative ever created: The Magnum Photos agency. Magnum Photos represents some of the world's most renowned photographers, maintaining its founding ideals and idiosyncratic mix of journalist, artist and storyteller. Our photographers share a vision to chronicle world events, people, places and culture with a powerful narrative that defies convention, challenges the status quo, redefines history and transforms lives. Magnum photographers are a rarity and the agency is self-selecting; membership is a minimum four year process and is considered the finest accolade of a photographer's career. Magnum Photos reaches a global audience and has established itself as the authentic, story telling photographic brand. It remains loyal to its original values of uncompromising excellence, truth, respect and independence.