The Spring 2026 Magnum Square Print Sale is here and are so many iconic shots that it’s going to be hard to control myself! The theme of this sale is “Odyssey” and each image represents a personal journey for the photographer. Hit the jump to see my faves!
Magnum Square Print Sale – Odyssey
It’s time for another Magnum Square Print Sale and this time they have teamed up with The Photographer’s Gallery to offer some gorgeous prints by some of the world’s top photographers. Archival signed or estate stamped prints can be yours for only $110 USD (plus shipping).
The theme for this sale is “Odyssey” and features over 100 images that explore everything from epic migrations to quiet moments of personal reckoning and emotional journeys. The photographs span decades and continents, and reveal how individual stories can mirror larger cultural, social, and political shifts.
Each photographer is offering an image that illustrates the theme and there are some iconic images this time around. Including the first Martin Parr image to appear in a Square Print Sale since his passing.
It’s always difficult to pick my favorite but here are a few that caught my eye!
Peter van Agtmael
Sergeant Jackson rested in the living room while his platoon searched the rest of the house for a suspected insurgent. They found nothing suspicious, and the commander assumed he had received bad intelligence. Most of the raids I witnessed were dry holes.
— Peter van Agtmael
Magnum Square Print By Peter van Agtmael – $110
Raúl Cañibano
This picture was taken during the Parrandas festival in Camajuaní, Cuba. It shows the height of the celebrations for this tradition, which is recognised as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
A thick column of smoke fills the scene, with the shapes of people moving through the glow from handmade fireworks. You can see their figures and bits of debris hanging in the air, all caught in the thick of the action. The photo really shows how the whole event is built around a rivalry between different neighborhoods.
This moment stands as proof of the sheer determination of the Cuban people. Every single year, despite everything, they find the creativity and the means to carry on this joyful tradition. It’s their way of holding on to who they are and making sure this part of their culture isn’t forgotten, even through very tough times.
— Raúl Cañibano
Magnum Square Print By Raúl Cañibano – $110
Chien-Chi Chang
Each year the rain returns, the children march, the saint awaits — the odyssey without end.
— Chien-Chi Chang
Magnum Square Print By Chien-Chi Chang – $110
Ernest Cole
Train surfing’ seems to have originated in colonial India and was primarily caused by poverty — beating the fare — and overloaded trains. In apartheid South Africa, it came from the same source but was slow to surface, perhaps because of the rigidity of the railway police. In the 1980s and 1990s, train surfing took the form of an ‘extreme sport’, reaching a peak of familiarity as policing retreated into neglect. Like Odysseus strapped to the mainmast in order to resist the lure of the Sirens, or Knut Hamsun riding on the roof of a train carriage between Minnesota and New York in order to expunge the tuberculosis from his lungs, train surfing merges a journey into the unknown with a physical trial of extraordinary risk and absolute danger.
Ernest Cole’s images of train surfers are perhaps the first example of this visual trope in the canon of South African photography. To see how train surfing developed from a necessity in the overpacked trains of the 1960s to a gladiatorial contest of masculinity, see Sara Blecher and Dimi Raphoto’s short film, Surfing Soweto (2007), available on YouTube. Cole, as usual, had captured the origins of a genuine cultural collision.
— James Sanders, the Ernest Cole Family Trust
Magnum Square Print By Ernest Cole – $110
Elliott Erwitt
Magnum Square Print By Elliott Erwitt – $110
Chris Killip
Magnum Square Print By Chris Killip – $110
Daidō Moriyama
Magnum Square Print By Daidō Moriyama – $110
Trent Parke
Magnum Square Print By Trent Parke – $110
Larry Towell
A man picks up and begins to read a piece of paper blown out of the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the attacks.
— Larry Towell
Magnum Square Print By Larry Towell – $110
Alex Webb
Magnum Square Print By Alex Webb – $110
So those are my favorite shots from the Sprint 2026 Magnum Square Print Sale. Take a minute to check out all the images in the sale over on Magnum’s website. There are some amazing photos over there!!
Magnum Square Print Sale – Odyssey
The Magnum Square Print Sale runs until Sunday, March 29, 11:59 PST (02:59 EST).
During the sale, archival-quality prints, signed by the photographers or estate-stamped by the estates, are available for just $110.
Magnum Square Prints are printed on 6×6” (15.24×15.24 cm) archival paper; image size is 5.5” (14 cm) on the longest side. Images will not be cropped but will instead have white borders. They are not editioned by quantity, but editioned by time, as these items will not be made available outside the sale window. The images in each sale are always different, and will never be available in this format again.
The Last Word
I really try to control myself with these sales. But there are so many iconic images this time around it’s going to be hard to not get them all. I really love the Larry Towell 9/11 shot and Trent Parke’s image from Minutes to Midnight is just gorgeous. And don’t even get me started on the Martin Parr or the Elliott Erwitt. Ugh!
If I had to be critical… I really wonder why they chose to offer a cropped version of Daido’s stray dog shot. I mean, that’s just not how the shot is presented anywhere else. Why would anyone want a cropped version of such an iconic shot?
Oh well!
What’s your take on the Spring 2026 Magnum Square Print Sale? Are you going to order one? Or Three?! Post your ideas in the comments below and keep the conversation going!