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[CALL] Magnum Foundation PhotoEx Fellowships

By Shawn Van Every on August 12, 2015

Magnum Foundation is looking for technologists and designers to join Magnum Foundation’s Photography, Expanded Fellowship production teams for a 4 month project starting late august. Project will be flexible in terms of time, with only a couple of required in-person meetings. Team-members will be paid collaborate two photographers who have received Photography, Expanded Fellowships to produce web-based documentary projects. Magnum Foundation is coordinating this fellowship program with Columbia University’s Brown Center for Media Innovation, and the project meetings will be based at their space. This will be a paid opportunity.

Bellow are descriptions of the projects and lists of areas of expertise needed.
If you’re interested and would like to hear a bit more about projects and their specific needs, please send an email to Emma Raynes and Kate Fowler.

Emma Raynes eraynes@magnumfoundation.org
Kate Fowler kfowler@magnumfoundation.org

Photography, Expanded Fellowship Projects
Peter DiCampo
What Went Wrong?
What Went Wrong is a participatory photo project that interrogates dominant representations of the value and efficacy of foreign aid in Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout the last year, Peter has documented numerous instances of failed aid in Malawi and Ghana, including a latrine project that he managed during his time as a Peace Corp volunteer. Additionally, he has collected first-hand accounts from the proposed beneficiaries of this aid, to illuminate the realities behind these unfinished, abandoned or unsuccessful projects. The aim of What Went Wrong is to,
  1. Provide a counter-narrative to the dominant representations of aid models in African countries
  2. To make a nuanced interactive web component to feature statistical data to add context to Peter’s investigative journalism
  3. To create a user generated submission process that extends beyond the Western prioritization of smart-phone technology, to include SMS
  4. To create a map to house data, failed aid case studies and community reports
Project Needs:
  • Interaction & Interface Designer
  • Front-End Designer for Case Studies
  • Back-End Designer for coding map, sms submission platform
  • Data Designer / Scientist for consultation on inclusion of data
Zun Lee
Fade Resistance
Fade Resistance is a project that seeks to restore the narrative impact of thousands of found African American vernacular Polaroid photographs. Through the development of an interactive archive and storytelling platform, Fade Resistance will invite viewers to participate in the collection, organization and narrative arrangement of African American vernacular imagery. This project is a direct extension of Zun’s earlier work on Black Fatherhood, which derived from his experiences with fatherlessness and his own struggles to find a place within his interracial family life.
During the fellowship, the Fade Resistance team would generate a robust digital archive with basic display, search query, commenting and sharing capabilities, utilizing the archive of over 2,500 collected images. The Fade Resistance team would work with developers to create an interactive archive that,
  1. Highlights the physicality of the polaroids as objects
  2. Is searchable based on varied criteria (color, content, culturally relevant terms, etc)
  3. Can be rearranged and organized to encourage viewers to edit their own sequences and tell their own stories
  4. Serves as a platform for user submissions of imagery & text
Additionally, Zun has created an advisory board of to co-curate and organize the archive and to solicit and curate submissions from photographers, writers, filmmakers, theorists and activists surrounding these images of African American family life.
Project Needs:
 
  • Interface and Interaction Designer
  • Database / Archive Developer
  • Image Copyright Lawyer / Specialist for Consultation
  • Front-End Designer for polaroid display, interactive response elements (video feature, audio feature, image upload, commenting)

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