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05/28/2026

10/11/2025

RSVP to see ee MAPS founding member this Tuesday.

07/11/2024

For his first institutional exhibition in Valais, MAPS member Matthieu Gafsou presents ELEGIES and continues his work and plastic experiments around the issue of global warming and our relationship to the world through a melancholic, or even unenchanted, presentation of glaciers.

For the past few years, the photographer has been gradually moving away from the shooting of objective reality using different processes, including physical and digital manipulation of his own prints. Between fascination and awe, he attempts to make sense of the rapid changes happening in our alpine landscapes, while confronting his own contradictions as an artist and an engaged citizen.
ELEGIES is a real invitation for contemplation and introspection. This new series of photographs, accompanied by an unpublished video made in Trient, aim to make us find a relative intimacy with our natural environments and with living people.

ELEGIES joins the large decentralized protest Watch the Glacier Go Away () which The Glacier Go away takes place during summer 2024 in a number of institutions and venues across Switzerland. artforglaciers.ch

06/02/2024

EPIDEMIC in Magnus Art magazine #24 (May-June issue).
Massimo Berruti’s story about illegal toxic waste dumping in Southern Italy, photographed in the “triangle of death” area, within the country’s Campania Region. Berruti observes, “It is a phenomenon repeated all around the world, everywhere corporate interests match with institutional corruption. It represents one of the worst legacies that the civilized world can leave to the future generations to come.”

05/21/2024

Massimo Berruti has been working in Israel.

A huge anti-government rally erupted last Saturday night in Tel Aviv, with thousands of people asking for new elections, an immediate deal for hostages and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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05/21/2024

Massimo Berruti has been working in Israel.

Ultra-Ortodox Anti-Zionist group organizes a protest marking the 76th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel. Ultra Ortodox groups have been protesting frequently since the revival of the 2022 Haredi army enlistment bill.

05/11/2024

Dominic Nahr has been named the Swiss Press Photographer of the Year and also won in the Portrait and Foreign categories for work in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Nahr’s Portrait award was for his series “Scarred by War,” from Ukraine, and the Foreign award was given for his series taken after the catastrophic September 2023 earthquake in Morocco. An exhibition of Nahr’s photographs, along with work from the other winners opened this week at the Landesmuseum Zürich and will run until June 30.


05/08/2024

Our , a former MAPS member, has been named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography ‘For a creative series of photographs documenting a “youthquake” occurring in Africa where, by 2050, the continent will account for one-quarter of the world’s population and one-third of its young people.’ Congratulations on being recognized for this exceptional work, Hannah.

01/12/2024

We are proud to announce that Ashfika Rahman of MAPS has been shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize.

🥳 Friends, the moment you’ve all been waiting for is finally here! We’re excited to announce the artists shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2023/24!

Welcome!

🔹 Sinzo Aanza (33, Congo)
Visual artist, poet, and playwright

🔹 Tara Abdullah Mohammed Sharif (27, Iraq)
Artist and activist

🔹 Julian Abraham ‘Togar’ (36, Indonesia)
Visual artist and musician

🔹 Andrius Arutiunian (32, Lithuania)
Visual artist and composer

🔹 Salim Bayri (31, Morocco)
Ultra-contemporary artist

🔹 Castiel Brasileiro (27, Brazil)
Visual artist, poet and psychologist

🔹 Giulia Cenci (35, Italy)
Visual artist

🔹 Nolan Dennis (35, South Africa)
Para-disciplinary artist

🔹 Yasmine El Meleegy (32, Egypt)
Multidisciplinary artist and sculptor

🔹 Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (29, Mongolia)
Visual artist

🔹 Veronika Hapchenko (28, Ukraine)
Visual artist

🔹 Dana Kavelina (28, Ukraine)
Visual artist and filmmaker

🔹 Marie-Сlaire Messouma Manlanbien (33, France)
Multidisciplinary visual artist

🔹 Dina Mimi (29, State of Palestine)
Visual artist

🔹 Sandra Mujinga (34, Norway)
Multidisciplinary artist and musician

🔹 Hira Nabi (36, Pakistan)
Visual artist and filmmaker

🔹 Ipeh Nur (30, Indonesia)
Visual artist and sculptor

🔹 Ashfika Rahman (35, Bangladesh)
Visual artist and pedagogue

🔹 Buhlebezwe Siwani (36, South Africa)
Multidisciplinary artist and sculptor

🔹 Zhang Xu Zhan (35, Taiwan)
Artist and film director

🔹 Ziyang Wu (33, China)
New media artist, curator and lecturer

We will soon share more details about the artists. In the meantime, a big congratulations to all of them!

01/02/2024

MAPS photographer John Trotter has been awarded one of the 2023 Yunghi Grants for photojournalism. He will be using the funding to go photograph the relationship of the Los Angeles/San Diego megalopolis to water from the distant Colorado River for his ongoing, longterm project about the human alteration of the river.

I am happy to announce the 2023 winners of The Yunghi Grant.

Congratulations to SIX photojournalists:
Russel Albert Daniels , Salt Lake City, Utah
Tamir Kalifa , Austin, Texas
Alejandra Rajal , Mexico City, Mexico
Simona Supino , Warsaw, Poland
John Trotter , Brooklyn, NY
Arin Yoon , Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 

EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in grants — $3,000 to each of SIX photojournalists — is being dispersed this year. I added a sixth grant this year because it’s always hard to just keep it to five!

Read judges comments (link in Bio) https://yunghikim.wordpress.com

As every year, I wish we can award more. I thank all those who took the time to submit! We had 132 submissions from 40 countries and 18 US states. 

 I am immensely thankful to Jeffrey Smith, Director of and Chloe Coleman,  Senior Photo Editor at The Washington Post for their time and patience.

This was the 9th year of The Yunghi Grant, see you next year! 🍾🤶🏻❤️💃🏻💪🎄