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Counter Histories

Magnum FoundationUnited StatesUnited States

Fellows: Alexis Gines, Andina Marie Osorio, Ángela Sophia Milá +5 more.

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Fellows

Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Alexis Gines

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Uses three generations of family archive to reimagine life after paternal loss in East Harlem in the early 1990s.

Work
Through The Grapevine — Alexis Gines
Through The GrapevineAlexis Gines, Through The GrapevineSource: magnumfoundation.org
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Andina Marie Osorio

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Activates recovered VHS tapes of her late aunt Esther Ramos documenting diasporic Puerto Rican cable programming from the 1980s-2000s.

Work
Untitled — Andina Marie Osorio
UntitledAndina Marie Osorio, Untitled (Celia Cruz #1)Source: magnumfoundation.org
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Ángela Sophia Milá

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Works with the photographic archive of her late grandfather Ismael Pérez Colón to centre the forgotten histories of Utuado.

Work
Utuado: entre el monte y el olvido — Ángela Sophia Milá
Utuado: entre el monte y el olvidoÁngela Sophia Milá, Utuado: entre el monte y el olvido, project documentationSource: magnumfoundation.org
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Erika P. Rodríguez

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Works with photojournalist Ricardo Alcaraz Díaz's 50-year archive of plena, reconstructing oral memory held in the images.

Work
Fotopleneros: Ricardo Alcaraz Díaz — Erika P. Rodríguez
Fotopleneros: Ricardo Alcaraz DíazErika P. Rodríguez, Fotopleneros: Ricardo Alcaraz Díaz, press imageSource: magnumfoundation.org
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

George Malave

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Digitizes and shares over five decades of photographic documentation of Puerto Rican life and culture in the diaspora.

Work
Family Relations — George Malave
Family Relations, 1969George Malave, Summer fun, 1969Source: magnumfoundation.org
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Worked with archival documentation of the 1999 civil disobedience camps against the US Navy bombing ranges in Vieques.

Work
Futuros terrenales: Retornos posibles a los campamentos de desobediencia civil de ViequesSource: vieques.iac.gatech.edu
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Rubén Rolando

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Activates his stepmother's vernacular photographs from the 1980s-90s as historical evidence of women's histories and queer childhoods in Puerto Rico.

Work
After Forgetting — Rubén Rolando
After ForgettingRubén Rolando, After Forgetting, archive materialsSource: magnumfoundation.org
Counter Histories: Puerto Rico Fellow 2026

Tamara Cedré

Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico

Builds a counter-archive on how colonialism, tourism and resource management shape Puerto Rico's relationship with water and environmental photography.

Work
No Puedo Ver El Fondo | I Can't See The Bottom — Tamara Cedré
No Puedo Ver El Fondo | I Can't See The BottomTamara Cedré, No Puedo Ver El Fondo | I Can't See The Bottom, press imageSource: magnumfoundation.org
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