The creation of Magnum Photos.

Magnum Photos was founded two years after the apocalypse of the Second World War ended. This world’s most prestigious photographic agency was formed by four photographers – Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour, who were very much scarred for life by the conflict and were motivated by a sense of relief that the world was still curious about what was happening during the World War II.

These four formed Magnum to allow them and the fine photographers who would follow the ability to work outside the formulas of magazine journalism. The agency, initially based in Paris and New York and more recently adding offices in London and Tokyo, departed from conventional practice in two fairly radical ways. It was founded as a co-operative in which the staff, including co-founders Maria Eisner and Rita Vandivert, would support rather than direct the photographers.

The authors of the imagery would hold copyright, not by the magazines that published the work. This meant that a photographer could decide to cover a famine somewhere, publish the pictures in "Life" magazine, and the agency could then sell the photographs to magazines in other countries, such as Paris Match and Picture Post, giving the photographers the means to work on projects that particularly inspired them even without an assignment.

Abbas, joined the prestigious photo agency Magnum back in 1981 and roamed the world for 45 years, covering major political and social events and publishing his works widely in world magazines and newspapers. Born in Iran in 1944 and later moved to Paris, Abbas shares his thoughts and perspectives in his actual photo exhibition in the National Museum of Singapore in Singapore. Photography is an art and being a recognized photographer for a prestigious institution is an accomplishment in the life of the latter. So Abbas made his way from being a simple man to a well-known photographer. "My photography is a reflection, which comes to life in action and leads to meditation. Spontaneity - the suspended moment - intervenes during action, in the viewfinder."