Pandora’s Box, Client Lounge, New York City, US, 1995

For their latest print sale, Magnum has teamed up with Granta magazine to champion storytelling. The symbiosis between visual and written narratives is explored through a collaboration with three writers, Sara Baume, Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Derek Owusu, who have created stories and poetry inspired by the images featured in the sale. In this image, Susan Meiselas offers a peek at an upscale S&M club’s client lounge. Buy this print The Magnum Square Print Sale: Fable starts on 29 April

Krakow, Poland, December 2006

As a child, Mark Power discovered his father’s homemade enlarger in the family attic, a contraption consisting of an upturned flowerpot, a domestic light bulb and a simple camera lens. His interest in photography probably began at this moment, though he later went to art college to study life-drawing and painting instead. Buy this print

Asya plays with pet birds in her friend Hodja’s room at a Qur’an school, Rize, Turkey, 2018

Sabiha Çimen: ‘In Turkey l attended Qur’an school with my twin sister. When l became a photographer I immediately wanted to run back to the Qur’an schools because this experience always stayed with me. This story is a rarely seen glimpse into this world, normally hidden and forbidden to most others. l wanted to portray the lives of these young girls during their intensive years of Qur’an education.’ Buy this print

Wall Running, Shaolin Academy, China, Hunan Province, 2004

Wall running is part of the training regimen of young practitioners learning martial arts at a training institute in China. Buy this print

Dalmations, Yokohama, Japan 2003

Dalmatians, with their intelligence and storied role in pop culture, reflect man’s relationship with dogs as both guide and companion. Buy this print

Comitán, Chiapas, 2007

Alex Webb is best known for his complex and vibrant colour photographs of serendipitous or enigmatic moments, often in places with socio-political tensions. Over the past 45 years, Webb has worked in places as varied as the US/Mexico border, Haiti and Istanbul. Buy this print

French actor Martine Carol with her poodle, Torremolinos, Spain, 1951

This was taken on a break during the shooting of Love and Desire. Herbert List was a classically educated artist who combined a love of photography with a fascination for surrealism and classicism. In 1951, List met Robert Capa, who convinced him to work for Magnum, but he rarely accepted assignments. He turned his interest towards Italy until 1961, photographing subjects including street scenes and international artists living in Italy. Buy this print

Hotel in Akasaka area, Tokyo, Japan, 1996

Pinkhassov was elected to the Magnum agency in 1988, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. He put his philosophy of concentrating on ‘coloured spaces’ into practice in his 1998 book Sightwalk, a collection of photographs from the streets of Tokyo. This image from that book, taken in a hotel in the city, reflected all of his thinking about framing and light. Buy this print

A woman in a dust storm, a walking tree, Village of San Augustin de Oapan, State of Guerrero, Mexico, 4 May 1985

This text is taken from Return to Mexico, Journeys Beyond the Mask: ‘The village is mad with heat. Men, beasts, trees, shacks, cacti – they’re all motionless, suspended in a diaphanous haze. Everything seems to be floating, hallucinated. The dry season is ending, and every afternoon, we are engulfed in a dust storm. I’ll never be as hot as this tenth return … I know that this is the last time.’ Buy this print

Man in the Moskva Hotel lavatory, Moscow, Russia 1989

Born in Belgium in 1941, Harry Gruyaert studied photography and film-making. He made a few films as director of photography for Flemish television before turning to colour photographs in his adopted Paris in the early 1960s. Buy this print

US, 2012

Bieke Depoorter: ‘This image is part of my project entitled: I Am About To Call It a Day. As a follow-up from the book Ou Menya that I made in Russia, I traveled across the US and tried to find a place to sleep each night. People shared their food, their bed and their nights with me. This way, I entered into the intimacy of the family and shared time with people until the next morning when I would leave and we might not see each other ever again.’ Buy this print

Ants eating a lollipop, Tunisia, 2022

This visual metaphor reveals how consumer society traps individuals in a cycle of desire and illusion. While Ben Romdhane started his career as a commercial photographer, the changes he witnessed in both Tunisia and in the media at large during the Arab Spring saw him increase his focus on making documentary work. Here the photographer discusses the advantages of a slow approach to documenting both communities and individuals, creating visual unity in diverse work, and redressing the imbalance of media coverage in his homeland. Buy this print