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Magnum 75 #34 by Emin Özmen. Edirne, Turkey. 2019

Collection

Magnum Photos 75

Creator

Emin Özmen

Description

Magnum 75 #34 by Emin Özmen. Edirne, Turkey. 2019 Wrestlers compete during a match at Kirkpinar Turkish oil-wrestling tournament. Wrestlers, named "pehlivan" for the past 658 years, come into the arena to compete in Kirkpinar at Edirne, a city at the Turkish-Greek border—once the capital of the Ottoman Empire. The festival attracts an audience from a wide range of cultures and ages. It is known to be the oldest sport festival in the world. The Magnum 75 collection is the inaugural NFT collection by Magnum Photos. Created in 2022, the collection brings together works by 76 photographers taken across seven decades. Each drop will be curated in dialogue with three leading picture editors from across the globe and selected to embody the agency’s past, present, and future. This collection release coincides with the agency’s 75th celebrations and its Annual General Meeting in New York. The first collection has been curated by Alejandro Cartagena, co-founder of Obscura. Alejandro Cartagena said: "To look into Magnum’s vast archive is to look into the evolving history of photography as a language. For this selection, which marks the first steps of the agency into yet another horizon for photography with the emergence of blockchain technology, I decided to focus on the ingredients that make certain images stand out from the rest – the elements that all photographers should be aiming for. These 76 images celebrate not only the endurance of Magnum Photos but the quality that has made this longevity possible." Edition: 1 of 1 © Emin Özmen/Magnum Photos 2022 All Rights Reserved www.magnumphotos.com/terms-conditions/

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Artist

Emin Özmen