Creating the next generation of photography critics: Magnum Writers in Residence

  • Jade Chao

Jade Chao and Bayryam Bayryamali commissioned six articles exploring the ways that photographs tell stories, exercise power, and offer resistance.

With Magnum Photos, Jade Chao and Bayryam Bayryamli recruited six emerging photography writers. Building a curriculum for photography writing to share skills on editorial pitching, art criticism, oral history, fiction writing, and more, the course's educational components culminated with the ideation and publication of editing six arts essays by the cohort. Read them here. Photograph: Hannah Price