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American-born Magnum photographer Alex Webb is a master photographer whose layered and beautifully-lit images have been a huge influence on a generation of stre

Magnum photographer Alex Webb has travelled the world catching cinematic moments that make time stand still, allowing an orderly chaos to fills the frame.

“It’s like a tornado passed and now everything is calm and clean,” says urban planner and restaurateur Pablo Aboumrad of Mexico City’s Centro neighborhood and its $382 million face-lift. That assessment also applies to other swaths of the city [...]

Outside of the Blue Mosque during Ramadan. Istanbul, Turkey. 2001.

Acclaimed French journalist Éric Fottorino delves into the history of human rights for Magnum and the European Parliament

An exemplary study of light, community and culture in Alex Webb's monograph, weaving together the most iconic photographs from his five decades-long career

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Alex Webb was born in San Francisco in 1952. He has been interested in photography ever since his youth. He studied literature and history at Harvard as well as photography at the Apeiron Photo Workshop in Millerton, New York. Since 1979 he has been a member of the famous international photographic cooperative – Magnum. Originally he worked in black and white, portraying the social landscape of America. His perspective was witty and ironic, but it lacked the emotional load. Nevertheless…