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Prints for sale by more than 100 Magnum photographers – including Eve Arnold, Alec Soth and Chris Killip – trace the paths we take through memory, across borders and into the unknown
On the edges of Jenin, in Silat al-Harithiya, Palestine, 5 June 2023, by Sakir Khader. Photograph: Sakir Khader/Magnum PhotosTue 24 Mar 2026 08.00 CETLast modified on Tue 24 Mar 2026 10.29 CET
Fairway Motor Inn, from the series Niagara, 2005: Alec Soth
Magnum Photos co-operative is partnering with the Photographers’ Gallery for another square print sale – until Sunday 29 March – with the title Odyssey. From epic migrations to quiet moments of personal reckoning, these photographs chart both physical and emotional journeys. The images span decades and continents, revealing how individual stories can mirror larger shifts. This image by Alec Soth is from one of his projects chronicling offbeat moments and scenes of American life. Buy this print Photograph: Alex Soth/Magnum Photos
Lowell Observatory, Arizona, USA, 2023: Bieke Depoorter
Depoorter says: ‘Looking at the sky is similar to looking into the past. The stars we see are from a long time ago, maybe even millions of years ago. I started to see the sky and the stars as memories. Maybe the sky is this shared memory we all have that everyone is looking at.’ Buy this print Photograph: Bieke Depoorter/Magnum Photos
The Arrival, Argentina, 2001: Alessandra Sanguinetti
Sanguinetti followed the lives of animals on one small farm – chickens, goats, pigs horses and cows – from their first days to their last. Buy this printPhotograph: Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum Photos
San Salvador, El Salvador, 1993: Antoine d’Agata
D’Agata says: ‘The body as the object of touch. A timeless gesture, yet one that carries meanings that are never universal. The physical act and its metaphorical implications: excessive gestures, signs of madness, or omens and wonders. No gesture exists in isolation; the body in action always responds to the action of another. Gesture is active, creating movement and dialogue.’ Buy this print Photograph: Antoine d’Agata/Magnum Photos
Pilgrims bathe in the holy lake, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, 1975: Bruno Barbey
Barbey says: ‘Pushkar is a major pilgrimage site in Hinduism. A religious festival held in honour of Brahma, the city’s god, inaugurates the Pushkar camel fair. At the time of Kartik Purnima (the full moon), a religious procession attracts – according to the Imperial Gazetteer of India – 100,000 pilgrims who come to invoke and venerate the god Brahma on the banks of the sacred lake, descending through one of the 52 ghats to bathe.’ Buy this print Photograph: Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos
Boo on a horse, Lynemouth, Northumberland, UK, 1984: Chris Killip
One of postwar Britain’s most influential photographers, Killip immersed himself in communities – especially in north-east England in the 1970s and 80s – undergoing economic shifts. He moved to the US, becoming professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard from 1991 to 2017. Buy this print Photograph: Chris Killip/Magnum Photos
Untitled outtake from the series Journey to the Center, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2018: Cristina de Middel
De Middel’s series documenting the movement of migrants through Central America towards California was shortlisted for the 2025 Deutsche Börse prize. Buy this print Photograph: Cristina de Middel/Magnum Photos
Betty Elliot on the couch at home with Eugenia, Shandia, Ecuador, May 1957: Cornell Capa
Capa said: ‘One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family [Robert Capa was his older brother]; I was to be a photographer of peace.’ Buy this print Photograph: Cornell Capa/Magnum Photos
Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce’s Ulysses, Long Island, New York, 1955: Eve Arnold
Arnold was the first woman to join the Magnum agency. Amid her varied work, she was celebrated for her portraits of many celebrities which appeared in publications including Harper’s Bazaar, Picture Post and Paris Match. Buy this print Photograph: Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos
A bride watches the sunset under the Galata Bridge in Eminönü, Istanbul, Turkey, 2025: Emin Özmen
Özmen says: ‘In 2022, I decided to embark on a long-term project about Istanbul. It is the city of all colours, with contradictions and ironies. Carefree, cheeky and mysterious; Istanbul is a place where everything is possible, while the city is impossible to comprehend. It can take you to a different atmosphere, another realm, in the blink of an eye.’ Buy this printPhotograph: Emin Özmen/Magnum Photos
South Africa, 1960s: Ernest Cole
James Sanders, of the Ernest Cole Family Trust, says: ‘Train surfing seems to have originated in colonial India and was primarily caused by poverty, beating the fare and overloaded trains. In apartheid South Africa, it came from the same source but was slow to surface, perhaps because of the rigidity of the railway police. In the 1980s and 90s, train surfing took the form of an extreme sport, reaching a peak of familiarity as policing retreated into neglect.’ Buy this print Photograph: Ernest Cole/Magnum Photos
A Native American walks through the yellow landscape of a Nevada dust storm, 1970: Ernst Haas
The Austrian-American photojournalist was an innovator in colour photography, often producing blurry images to capture the feeling of dynamic motion. His early work documented postwar conditions in his native Vienna. He moved to the US in the 1950s, and became Magnum’s president in 1959. Buy this print Photograph: Ernst Haas/Magnum Photos
Kitten, Liguria, Italy, 1936: Herbert List
List’s archivist, Peer-Olaf Richter, says: ‘With eyes wide open, the kitten looks directly at the viewer – its gaze a mix of surprise and unease, as if puzzled by this unfamiliar vantage point from above. Beneath the innocence of that look lies a trace of fear about what might come next. To me, this expression mirrors Herbert List’s own emotional state at the time: he had just fled Germany as a homosexual man of Jewish heritage.’ Buy this print Photograph: Herbert List Estate/Magnum Photos
Riaan at sea, Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, 2005: Mikhael Subotzky
Riaan told Subotzky: ‘Sometimes I sit on the hill above the sea. She is a big thing, that sea. Sometimes I can hear things, you know. Things like voices. She has many different voices. This once I asked the magistrate, “Who put the kreef in the water?” He said, “God put it there.” I said, “And are you God to put me in jail?” He laughed and sent me home for correctional supervision, and for 40 days I must clean the police station.’ Buy this print Photograph: Mikhael Subotzky/Magnum Photos
New York City, 11 September 2001: Larry Towell
On a dust-strewn street, a man picks up and begins to read a piece of paper blown out of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the deadly 9/11 terror attacks. Buy this print Photograph: Larry Towell/Magnum Photos
St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, UK, 2017: Martin Parr
Parr said: ‘I always enjoy shooting queues – the British are very good at doing this. I was very excited when I saw this queue for St Michael’s Mount. It took me a while to find the right viewpoint and then wait for the line of people to be clear to ensure there were no people pushing in.’ Buy this print Photograph: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos
On the edges of Jenin, in Silat al-Harithiya, Palestine, 5 June 2023: Sakir Khader
After Israeli occupation forces killed his 11-year-old cousin Kosay, Palestinian-Dutch photographer Sakir Khader committed to documenting injustices faced by people living in Jenin and Nablus – alongside their ‘life-loving defiance’. Khader asks: ‘What is it like to grow up in Palestine? How can you live amid violence, fear and oppression? What does the future look like when the past has been violently stripped of possibility?’ Buy this print Photograph: Sakir Khader/Magnum Photos
Ballet school at Lviv State Choreographic School, Ukraine, 2023: Sabiha Çimen
In 2023, Çimen traveled to Ukraine to explore how cultural institutions in the cities of Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv and Odessa are coping during wartime. Buy this printPhotograph: Sabiha Çimen/Magnum Photos
On the way to Huancayo, Peru, 1980: Jim Goldberg
Goldberg says: ‘I made this photograph on a train trip from Lima to Huancayo, Peru, in 1980. It was at the beginning of a somewhat short adventure through South America. I had just finished graduate school and was in the middle of what would become my first book, Rich and Poor. It was a time that I fully embraced my lifelong journey to become a photographer.’ Buy this print Photograph: Jim Goldberg/Magnum Photos
The hand and the time, Malinaltepec, Guerrero, Mexico, 2021: Yael Martínez
A hand holds a chapulin, a knife used to grate opium gum, handcrafted by poppy farmers. Buy this print Photograph: Yael Martínez/Magnum PhotosExplore more on these topics
