About Spanish-american Magnum photographer Moises SAMAN (b. 1974)

Moises SAMAN is a Lima-born full member Magnum Photos. He worked as a photojournalist in the Middle East from 2011 to 2014, best known for his photographs from the wars in Iraq: the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the Iraqi Civil War. has also worked in Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, and Syria including in rebel-held areas there. He covered the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War for The New Yorker and has worked for Human Rights Watch. It was during this period in the Middle East that he made 'Discordia', a book of personal work about the revolution in Egypt and the broader Arab Spring. Moises SAMAN has won multiple awards from World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2010 he was invited to join Magnum Photos as a nominee and became a full member in 2014. He has published three photo volumes to date. Moises SAMAN is based in Tokyo.

Photo books by and with contributions by Moises SAMAN

  • 'This is War' (2004)
    'Afghanistan: Broken Promise' (2007)
    'Unknown Quantities - Young Magnum Photographers' (2012, together with works by Peter Van AGTMAEL, Olivia ARTHUR as well as by Dominic NAHR'
    'Discordia' (2016)
    'Home. Tokyo' (2018)

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In out-of-print volume 'This is War' Moises SAMAN shows what war really means: pain, destruction, darkness. The images are far from that reality that today's media present in the form of hypertechnical video games, as shiny and manipulated TV productions.
58,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
The self-published photo volume 'Discordia' by Moises SAMAN is a personal examination of the Arab Spring. The images from Syria, Libya and Egypt gain additional dynamics through the collages by Daria Birang. Folding pages create further cross-references.
398,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
In his 'The Americans List II' Jason ESKENAZI collected answers by photographers visiting the 'Looking In' exhibition about 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK, choosing their favorite image and why. The book could to become a classic in photography education
98,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
Boxed set of 24 pp. newsprint publications, 24 x 16 x 3 cm., 96 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies
0,00 € *
Awards
  • 2014: W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund fellowship for 'Discordia'
    2015: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
    2016: The Anamorphosis Prize for 'Discordia'