Announcing the 2022 Nikon-NOOR Advanced Storytelling Workshop participants. 12 visual storytellers will take part in the intensive workshops led by NOOR authors held in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The 2022 Nikon-NOOR Advanced Storytelling Workshop consists of four all-day sessions directed by three NOOR authors and a facilitator from the NOOR team. The authors will work closely with the 12 participants, sharing experiences, working on portfolios, guiding editing skills, and offering advice on creating impactful visual stories.
During the four days participants will work on one-on-one sessions with the tutors as well as develop their projects within a group. The workshop is centred around proactive and constructive feedback sessions and aims at providing the participants with new perspectives for the development of their projects and a deeper understanding of the state of visual storytelling for their professional development.
The tutors of the NOOR Advanced Storytelling Workshop are: Andrea Bruce, Tanya Habjouqa and Olga Kravets.
Participants
Carlotta Steinkamp
My name is Carlotta Steinkamp, I am 24 years old and currently studying photography and media in Bielefeld, Germany. After I finished my matura in Düsseldorf in 2016, I did a voluntary year in a local media centre where I mostly worked with documentary film. I began studying photography and media in 2018 and plan to finish my Bachelor of Arts in Hanover, Germany in 2023 or 2024. Over the past two years, I have turned mainly towards photojournalism after taking classes from documentary and war photographer Christoph Bangert at my university.
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Daniel Chatard
Daniel Chatard (*1996 in Heidelberg) is a Franco-German photographer. In his projects, Chatard investigates themes revolving around our environment, identity, and trauma. He is particularly interested in how these manifest themselves in the landscape. He describes his approach as involved documentary, making his own relations to his subjects part of the work and using collaboration to create new knowledge. Daniel holds a bachelor's degree in photojournalism and documentary photography from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover. In 2018, he studied for an exchange semester at Tomsk State University in Russia. He is currently studying in the MA Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Daniel has worked with various international media, such as The Washington Post, National Geographic, The British Journal of Photography, L‘OBS and Die ZEIT. He has been awarded the German Youth Photo Prize and shortlisted at the German Photobook Prize, was a finalist of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2018 and got nominated for the Prix Pictet 2019.
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Eyad Abou Kasem
A documentary photographer interested in telling the stories of the region by observing my surroundings, visually documenting my own life for extended periods of time to be produced as subjects of social significance. Graduated from the Faculty of Literature Arts in Damascus, Syria in 2013 and is currently studying Photojournalism and Documentary photography at the Hochschule Hannover.
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Gerd Waliszewski
Gerd Waliszewski, born in 1996 in the USA, grew up in Poland and Germany. He has been studying at the Ostkreuzschule fuer Fotografie in Berlin since spring 2021. In his photography he works with a documentary approach and is interested in its vague border to fiction.
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Katharina Kemme
Katharina Kemme (1991) is a documentary and portrait photographer from Essen, Germany. After her youth in a small Bavarian village, she first studied journalism with and worked for a news agency. Her freelance work is characterized by a sociological interest and is concerned with finding identity, as well as self-presentation and -staging of persons. With her photo essays, she wants to give an insight into how multi-faceted people's lives and passions can be, in order to enable greater acceptance and understanding of social coexistence. She is currently studying for a master's degree in photography in Dortmund.
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Katja Feldmeier
Katja Feldmeier was born in Odessa (Ukraine) and grew up in Berlin, Germany. She is currently completing a photography degree at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in the class of Tobias Kruse. Katja graduated with a BA in Law from the University of Oxford in 2012 and an MA in Communications from Universität der Künste Berlin in 2018, but has since turned to more artistic projects in visual media. She is particularly interested in topics of gender, socio-economic inequality and structural discrimination.
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Leonard Mann
Leonard Mann studies and lives in Düsseldorf. He focuses his interest on social and political discourses. The translation into a visual language happens in images as well as in moving images.
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Magnus Terhorst
Magnus Terhorst was born in 1994 in Germany and graduated with a bachelor's degree from Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2022 and is currently enrolled in the master's program Photographic Studies there. He is the winner of the Otto Steinert Award 2021/22 and a member of Fotobus e.V. and DGPh. Since his early semesters, he is focusing on documentary long term projects about society and social problems.
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Marysia Myanovska
Ukrainian photographer born Feb 15 1990 in Kyiv. Currently based in Hamburg, Germany. Graduate Victor Marushchenko School of Contemporary Photography. Works on projects about Ukrainian youths.
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Tanya Sharapova
Tanya Sharapova is a Berlin-based artist working with documentary, archive, and art photography. Born in Moscow in 1984, Tanya began her career as a travel photographer and writer for travel magazines, such as National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, GQ Travel, Asian Geographic. Over time she expanded her interests from travel stories to stories, with a focus on the relation between individual and society, collective memory, and issues of territorial isolation. She works in Russia, Germany, and the Himalayas.
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Tatsiana Tkachova
Tatsiana Tkachova is an independent documentary photographer. Originally hailing from Mogilev region (Belarus), she is currently based in Hamburg. Tatsiana graduated from Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts with a Degree in Cultural Studies in 2014, and from the Academy of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism, Fotografika, in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2016. In 2022 Tatsiana took part in the International Class for Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of applied sciences and arts in Hannover. She teaches photojournalism at the Johannes Rau International Education Centre (Minsk, Belarus), The Belarusian Association of Journalists (Minsk, Belarus). The most important part of her professional activities is devoted to personal, long-term projects that are focused on the women’s rights, particularly the topics of gender violence, conflict and resistance. Also, Tatsiana Tkachova works with subjects of borders, identity and isolation. She has been a winner of various competitions. She is a recipient of World Press Photo 2020, and others awards. Tatsiana Tkachova works with Belarusian and foreign media, including Takie Dela, The Guardian, 6 MOIS, Der Spiegel, De Volkskrant, Meduza.io, Esquire.ru, Republic.
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Victoria Jung
Victoria Jung, 1991, is a german freelance documentary and portrait photographer. She completed two bachelor‘s degrees in communication design at the HTWG Konstanz and in photography at the FH Dortmund. She is currently studying for a Master‘s degree in photography in Dortmund parallel to her freelance work and independent projects. Since 2019, she has been photographing in the journalistic field for numerous magazines and newspapers. In the printed DIE ZEIT she photographed the weekly portrait column „Who are you?“ from October 2019 to January 2022. In her personal projects, she mainly focuses on social phenomena in sub- and youth cultures in relation to their local environment. She is interested in the political in everyday life, the struggle for one‘s own (free) spaces and the effects of systemic upheavals on a small scale.
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Header photo: © Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR