Bien que né à Singapour en 1970, Simon Wheatley a passé son adolescence au Royaume Uni, il est diplômé de l'Université de Manchester en 1993. Ces dernières années, Wheatley s'est interessé aux airs urbaines marginalisées, avec un intérêt particulier sur le devenir des jeunes et la régénération urbaine. Il devient memebre de Magnum en 2005, il vit et travaille aujourd'hui encore au Royaume Uni.
Throughout that period MAGNUM never ceased to supply photographs that have become part of the world’s collective memory – pictures of landmark events like the Russian army’s invasion of Prague in 1968 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed.
MAGNUM was established in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. They were convinced that photography was the best medium with which to document world events and raise public awareness. And they succeeded – the way MAGNUM photographer...