The Family of Migrants

The Family of Migrants is inspired by the legendary exhibition Family of Man, an ode to humanity created by photographer and curator Edward Steichen, that opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. This book features around 200 photographs and will show the most striking photography that tells universal, timeless stories of human existence, such as departure, journey and arrival, and themes like family, loss and love.

Among the hundreds of images are iconic as well as unknown photos by, among many others, Eva Besnyö, Lewis Hine, Chien-Chi Chang, Abbas Attar, Robert de Hartogh, Wang Fuchun, Dorothea Lange, Stephan Vanfleteren, Fouad Elkoury, Ara Gu¨ler, Leonard Freed, Ata Kandó, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Emin Özmen, Sergey Ponomarev, Alfred Stieglitz, and Ishiuchi Miyako.

Cover images credits: on the left is West Indian Arrivals, by Haywood Magee, taken in 1956 as West Indian immigrants arrived at Victoria Station, London, UK, after their journey from Southampton Docks. The right image is Migrant Mother by Dorothea Lange, taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, USA, depicting Florence Owens Thompson, a migrant worker and mother, during the Great Depression.