Submissions 2018

About Magnum Submissions 2018

Magnum Photos is a co-operative owned and run by its members/photographers. They meet once a year during the last weekend in June to discuss the organization’s affairs. One day of the meeting is set aside for looking at and voting on potential new members' portfolios.

Successful applicants will be invited to become a "Nominee Member", a category of membership, which presents an opportunity for Magnum and the individual to get to know each other. At this stage there are no binding commitments on either side.

Magnum is only considering digital submissions at this point. Please fill out the submissions form and upload your portfolio. The deadline for submissions is 12.00pm GMT January 31st 2018.

Magnum will notify successful applicants by June 30th 2018.

Photographers based in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Commonwealth, Africa, Asia and the Middle East should select London as the Magnum Office they are applying to. Photographers residing in the Americas should select New York as the Magnum Office they are applying to and photographers within Europe (excluding the United Kingdom & Ireland) should select Paris as the Magnum Office they are applying to.

For reasons of confidentiality, Magnum cannot give out personal information regarding our photographers, nor can we enter into correspondence regarding any decision made about Nomineeship.

Committee

Magnum Photographers

Timeline

Call For Entries Open

1 December 2017

Submission Deadline

31 January 2018

Nominee Announcement

30 June 2018

Requirements

Submission Requirements

1 - 3 projects
20 - 40 images per project
Image size: min. 1500px on the long side, sRGB
Project description with up to 1500 characters
Biography and CV

Special Requirements

State the Magnum office that you are applying to
Photographers based in UK, Ireland, the Commonwealth, Africa, Asia and the Middle East = Magnum London
Photographers based in Americas = Magnum New York
Photographers based in Europe (excluding UK and Ireland) = Magnum Paris

Terms & Conditions

FAQ

Terms & conditions

Magnum Submissions 2018

By agreeing to Magnum Photos Terms and Conditions for the Magnum Submissions 2018 process, the agreement is between yourself (the "Photographer") and Magnum Photos (the "Company"), who's registered address is 12 West 31st Street, New York, NY 10001, United States. The Magnum Photos Terms and Conditions are additional to the Terms and Conditions of the software provider Picter, which can be viewed here: https://www.picter.com/legal/terms/

By submitting photos (the "Work") to the Magnum Submissions 2018 process, the Photographer hereby agrees that:

The Magnum Submissions 2018 will allow any Photographer to submit Work from 1st December 2018 until the closing date on midnight on 31st January 2018.

Decisions on any successful applications for membership to the Company will be made by 30th June 2018.

The Licensor hereby agrees that:

The Photographer is the copyright holder of the Work, or has the specific right to distribute the Work and to agree to a non-exclusive release of the Work on behalf of the copyright holder.
The Work is an original work (except to the extent that it may include third party clearances, where the Licensor has in her/his possession any necessary written permission which may be delivered to the Company, upon request), is free of any lien, claim, or debt of any kind, is not in the public domain in any country throughout the world.
The Work contains no material that is libellous, obscene, plagiarized or any other unlawful matter, or is in any way illegal, and that it in no way infringes upon the copyright or violates any other right of any person so as to subject the Company to liability to any third party.
The Work will only be viewed by the Company on the Picter software platform by Full Members and Production staff of the Company
By submitting the Work, the Photographer grants the Company a non-exclusive licence to view the Work on the Picter software platform for the duration of the submission process commencing on 1st December 2017 until 30th June 2018.
The Company and Picter will not publish, share or redistribute any of the Work to any individuals or organisations external to the Company for the duration of the submission process or post-submission process.
The Work must be submitted in up to three projects of between 20-40 pictures (in jpeg format at up to 1500 pixels on the longer size) in each project with an accompanying text story and the c. of the Photographer. If the Work does meet these requirements, the Photographer will not be considered for membership.
Successful applicants may be contacted by the 30th June 2018 and a public announcement on the acceptance will be dispatched to media outlets and on the Company's own public-facing websites within a week after the 30th June 2018.
Successful applicants may be contacted by the Company within a week after 30th June 2018 to agree to a new licence to cover the public display of the Work on the Company's own website platforms.
The Company cannot give out personal information regarding the Company's membership of photographers.
The Company will not correspond with any Photographer regarding any unsuccessful application for membership.
The Photographer shall indemnify, defend and hold the Company, its parent company, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, successors, licensees and assigns and respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, partners and agents who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in threatened, pending or completed claim, action, suit, arbitration, alternative dispute resolution proceeding, administrative hearing whether of a civil, criminal, or administrative nature (any of the foregoing, a "Proceeding"), or any appeal of such a Proceeding or any inquiry or investigation that could lead to such a Proceeding harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses, including attorneys' fees, costs or disbursements arising out of any breach of this Agreement.
All matters relating to the interpretation, construction, validity and enforcement of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic laws of the State of New York without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision. The exclusive jurisdiction for any claim, action or dispute will be in the state and federal courts of the State of New York and the venue or the adjudication or disposition of any such claim, action or dispute will be in the City of New York, New York. The parties waive their respective rights to a trial by jury.
This Agreement and the documents referred to herein shall constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and shall be amended only by a writing signed by both parties. This Agreement contains all of the terms agreed and no waiver or modification of any term of the agreement will be valid, unless it is in writing and signed by the Licensor and the Company. The Licensor hereby warrants that [he/she] has read the above authorization, release, and agreement prior to its execution, and is fully familiar with the contents thereof.