Magnum Print Room, London
18 February – 11 April 2014

North African Stories: Then and Now juxtaposes two groups of Magnum photographs taken in North Africa over 50 years apart. In so doing we highlight two key activities for the contemporary agency: the recovery and reappraisal of its physical print archive and the development of a more open and experimental means of creative production, while exploring the shift in documentary practice, through looking at work made in a region new to the majority of these photographers.

Two groups of predominantly period, silver gelatin, press prints, made...