Magnum Photos announced that it would be conducting a thorough internal review of its entire archive. The decision comes one week after a series of photos from 1989 depicting teenage sex workers were unearthed in the archive, raising concerns about how they were captured and the legality of licensing such imagery.
Andy Day, who discovered a series of potentially problematic images by Magnum photojournalist David Alan Harvey that were being sold on the Magnum website. These images showed young women—possibly teenagers—who were working as prostitutes in Bangkok.
Magnum immediately took down the whole series and released a short statement promising a “comprehensive” review and claiming that “we are re-examining our past archives as we are aware there is material that may be inappropriate.”
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