Freedom – Magnum photos

Bruce Davidson, Magnum Photos

Alabama, USA, 1965.

Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photos

'From 1961 to 1965, I bore witness to various demonstrations in the civil rights movement. In this photograph, a group of civil rights demonstrators march from Selma to Montgomery to fight for the right to vote. Freedom was then, as it remains today, something that had to be fought for' © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos

David Hurn, Magnum Photos

Students hurling objects at the police. Boulevard Saint-Germain, 6th arrondissement, Paris, France. May 6, 1968.

Dennis Stock, Magnum Photos

'There was an urgency to communicate, to speak with one another, to question everything; it was the rebellion of a generation against that which society had prepared for it, against all that came from above' © Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos

Diana Markosian, Magnum Photos

Arizona, USA, 1980.

Emin Ozmen, Magnum Photos

'Total freedom seems to me to be tubing on the salt river. Floating down a river in a lorry wheel inner-tube, embellished with a floating picnic. Soaking in the sun and showing off one's, probably, burnt body' © David Hurn/Magnum Photos

Enri Canaj, Magnum Photos

Ernest Cole, Magnum Photos

Ferdinando Scianna, Magnum Photos

Venice Beach Rock Festival. California, USA. 1968 © Dennis Stock/Magnum Photos

George Rodger, Magnum Photos

Ian Berry, Magnum Photos

Doud, age 11. Wolfsburg, Germany. 2017. 'It was night when Doud boarded a small rubber boat. It was his first time seeing the ocean, and now he was amongst a group of refugees, escaping their homes in search of freedom elsewhere. Doud didn't know how to swim and feared the boat would sink. A year later, now in Germany, he is with a handful of other refugees learning to swim as a way of overcoming their fear of water associated with the journey they made to Europe. When I look at this image, I see the trauma that accompanied Doud's sacrifice. It's a constant duality for me: there's no freedom without that risk' © Diana Markosian/Magnum Photos

Leonard Freed, Magnum Photos

Children run in the wheat field and enjoy nice weather during the local traditional spring festival. Kirklareli, Turkey. 2017. 'The cold winter leaves the Thrace region of Turkey and welcomes spring with its shining sun and warm winds. People connect again to nature by celebrating it every year during the first week of May in Kirklareli. When I shot this photo, I was running in the wheat field and enjoying the nice weather, remembering my childhood memories with these kids. For them, as for me, it was a moment of pure freedom' © Emin Özmen/Magnum Photos

Micha Bar Am, Magnum Photos

Boy on a swing. Tirana, Albania. 2005.

Paolo Pellegrin, Magnum Photos

'During the 90s, when the communist regime collapsed, and for the years that followed, many families from northern villages and small towns migrated to the suburbs for a better life. When you are an immigrant you feel that nothing belongs to you. Your freedom to dream and to imagine is the only thing you have. Photography is the only freedom I have' © Enri Canaj/Magnum Photos

Philip Jones Griffiths, Magnum Photos

Handcuffed black people arrested for being in a white Area illegally. South Africa. Circa 1965.

Raymond Depardon, Magnum Photos

'When I say that people can be fired or arrested or abused or whipped or banished for trifles, I am not describing the exceptional case for the sake of being inflammatory. The essential cruelty of the situation is not that all blacks are virtuous and all whites villainous, but that the whites are conditioned not to see anything wrong in the injustices they impose on their black neighbors' © Ernest Cole/Magnum Photos

Robert Capa, Magnum Photos

Child with a flag in the field. Bagheria, Sicily, Italy, 2002.

Sohrab Hura, Magnum Photos

Stuart Franklin, Magnum Photos

Susan Meiselas, Magnum Photos

Freedom in the Africa bushlands. Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. 1958. 'Seventy years ago, George and I had the wonderful opportunity to travel Africa's vast and empty bushlands in our loaded Land Rover, which was more like a home than a vehicle. After having signed countless forms in different languages, restrictions that unfortunately, still exist today, we were free. Africa seemed happy to receive us. Elephants, rhino, buffalo and other native wildlife were still free to wander. Today, these animals rarely roam free; they are, instead, increasingly hunted, and increasingly in need of defence for their freedom'. Jinx Rodger, widow of George Rodger © George Rodger/Magnum Photos