The Collective by Sebastian Liste

We are pleased to announce The Collective by Sebastian Liste, a membership, monthly training, mentorship, and community for Photographers & Visual Storytellers.

Get into inspirational learning, practical advice, and valuable insights to elevate your skills, mindset & projects, and to empower your journey.

Sebastian has been seeking the right life/work balance during his career, producing independent documentary projects and working on large magazine assignments while developing his personal projects. This experience has given him the methods to build a practice that balances his creative work, his clients, and the promotion of his projects, as well as his personal life.

On his new platform, The Collective, Sebastian Liste will get honest and transparent about how you can bring clarity to your projects, grow your creative practice, and build a sustainable career as a visual storyteller. Every week, you will receive new content such:

• Educational tutorials
• Behind The Scenes
• Guest Expert
• Creative Challenges
• Live Q&As with Sebastian Liste

Inside The Collective, you will get into inspirational learning, practical advice, and valuable insights to help you elevate your skills, mindset & projects.

All sessions will be recorded and available on the platform so you can work and learn at your own pace. You can stay for as long as you like, no strings attached.

To keep the experience intimate and to build a strong community, The Collective will be open to join several times a year. The first door will close Sunday, January 24th at 11:59pm CET.

Free Online Workshop "The Creative Practice for Visual Storytellers" with Sebastian Liste & Heba Khamis

We're pleased to announce yet another online workshop with NOOR authors Heba Khamis and Sebastian Liste on Friday, December 11th, 2020 at 5 pm CET. 

This workshop will discuss how to boost one's creativity in pandemic times, and beyond! Heba and Sebastian will talk about how they've engaged with their creative practice in these isolated times — teaching themselves to transform self-doubt into new opportunities. 

Click here to register for the online workshop now.

Note, limited online seats.

In this workshop, they will...

• Share their process for nurturing your creativity even when things get tough.

• Give you insights on how to solve problems and keep motivated when working on long-form visual projects from home.

• Guide you through a collaborative approach with your subjects, one that will elevate your visual stories.

• Demonstrate how they transform self-doubts into new opportunities and in preparation for your upcoming projects.

• Offer you a safe space to be heard, share your personal challenges, and get collective feedback during the Q&A section.

Free Online Masterclass with Sebastian Liste & Jon Lowenstein

We're pleased to announce our second free online workshop with NOOR Author Jon Lowenstein and Sebastian Liste on Friday, December 4th 2020 at 5pm Amsterdam time.

The masterclass will focus on working on stories in our own backyards, nurturing the bonds with our neighborhoods, communities, and relatives close to oneself. Make sure to register to the online workshop now with the link here: https://bit.ly/37wsVVi

In this masterclass, we will:
- Share our creative and unique approaches at all times, especially during a pandemic.
- Give you all our insights on how to keep producing meaningful work from your own backyard.
- Guide you through the different narratives and styles that we use and that you can put in practice too.
- Show you our own ways to find inspiration near you and how to capture it with your cameras.
- Unique approaches to fundraising
- Offer you a safe space to listen and to be heard in our Q&A Session.

Free Online Workshop - Grant Writing for Visual Storytellers with Andrea Bruce & Sebastian Liste

Free Online Workshop - Grant Writing for Visual Storytellers
with Andrea Bruce & Sebastian Liste

We're pleased to announce a special free online workshop with NOOR Author Andrea Bruce and Sebastian Liste on Friday, November 27th 2020.

Link for registering: https://bit.ly/35XW2RN

Do you have questions about applying for the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship? Are you having trouble applying for grants in general? Do you need funds to support or continue your personal projects?

There is a way. There is a set of skills and techniques you can learn and apply to elevate your grant proposals in order to focus on the stories you want to tell and the change you seek to make.

We believe that any independent photographer, who is willing to develop their own vision and ideas, should know how to reach the organizations that can provide the necessary funding to accomplish their projects.

NOOR´s photographers Andrea Bruce and Sebastian Liste have consistently received generous support from some of the most important organizations in our industry: the Harvard Nieman Foundation fellowship, World Press Photo Foundation, the Magnum Foundation Emergency Found, the Alexia Foundation Grant, the CatchLight Fellowship, National Geographic Explorer grant, Getty Editorial Grant, the Nikon Special project Grant and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship.

That support has allowed them to commit to their practice as visual storytellers and develop their personal in-depth projects.

In this workshop, Andrea and Sebastian will share their expertise on successfully applying for grants.

We will take into special consideration the structure of writing a proposal and how to edit a portfolio that properly supports your project idea. We will also give you very practical tips to elevate your bio and CV and how to make a realistic budget—details that are crucial but sometimes underestimated when applying for a grant.

We also want to give you a chance to discuss specific questions and challenges you might have. We´ve set up time for a Q&A session.

Let’s be ready for the next session together.

Let us help you take your career to the next level.

Let’s produce work that matters.

© Andrea Bruce / NOOR

Photo London & NIKON/NOOR Live Instagram Panels

Make sure to check out the Nikon-NOOR Photo London Panel with Kadir van Lohuizen, Olga Kravets and Pep Bonet on Wednesday, 14 October, 1 pm BS!

Register here!

Olga Kravets/NOOR

Fundraiser For Racial and Social Justice

Print Sale Supporting local Black run community organisations in Chicago and Oakland, USA.

In an effort to support poor and working class black communities in the United States who have been devastated by generations of disinvestment, social segregation and institutional racism, NOOR will offer a series of 3 images for sale that will benefit the rebuilding and reimagining of our country.

By offering these prints, we encourage our larger global community to become politically active in struggles for racial and gender equality and the rights of indigenous people.

All profits from the sales will go to the following groups: Nina Berman’s print to Assata’s Daughters, an organization of young radical African-American women and girls fighting police violence in Chicago; Jon Lowenstein’s print to the Black women led South Merrill Community Garden on Chicago’s South Side, and Stanley Greene’s print to The People’s Breakfast Oakland.

These are open editioned, unsigned inkjet prints 10x8 inch (25 x 20 cm) print priced at $225 Euros each. If you donate to a local social justice group, send us an email with the screenshot of your donation to shop@noorimages.com and we will send you a 50% discount code. This fundraiser will last until June 30th, all prints will be shipped after the end of the sale.

Tanya Habjouqa's Livestream on Grant Writing with Blind Magazine

Tanya Habjouqa will be live with with Maxime Riché from MEERO, on Blind Magazine's instagram, Thursday 7th of May at 6pm Amsterdam Time, make sure to tune in to get the best tips on grant applications and writing!

She will be discussing the following grants:

-Arab Culture Fund: https://arabculturefund.org

-Everyday Projects: https://www.everydayprojects.org/webinars, moderated by Daniella Villasana, Community Team member of the Everyday Projects

-W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund: https://www.smithfund.org

-Catchlight: https://www.catchlight.io/the-catchlight-fellowship

-TED: https://www.ted.com/participate/ted-fellows-program/apply-to-be-a-ted-fellow

-Magnum Foundation: https://www.magnumfoundation.org/programs

-Pulitzer Center: https://pulitzercenter.org/international-reporting-grants

-International Women's Media Foundation: https://www.iwmf.org/our-programs/

-National Geographic Grants: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/funding-opportunities/grants/

-Neimen Harvard Fellowship: https://nieman.harvard.edu/fellowships/

-Yale Fellowship: https://funding.yale.edu

-Brown Fellowship: https://brown.columbia.edu/propose/2020-magic-grant-call-for-proposals/

-SAIF: https://saif.fr/

Heba Khamis joins NOOR

We are proud to announce that Heba Khamis joins NOOR

From her series “Banned Beauty”

Egyptian visual researcher Heba Khamis' work concentrates on the sensitive, tabooed, social issues related to the body. In 2018 and 2019, her projects were awarded at the World Press Photo prize. Her work has been recognised as well with other international awards including the PHMuseum grant and the Ian Parry Scholarship award.

After graduating with a bachelor in painting, Heba Khamis had a career shift and worked as a photojournalist, covering the two revolutions in Egypt and it's aftermath. Currently, she is working on the topics of breast ironing in Cameroon, and transgenders in Egypt. Her latest series "Black Bird" uncovers stories of gay prostitution among straight refugees in Germany.

Through developing her storytelling visual language, she considers herself as a visual researcher after having working as a photojournalist, documentary photographer, and now as a storyteller. She carries the ethics of traditional documentary form with her, but believes the need to care further about the subjects while telling their stories. Beyond her usual photographic approach, she adds different elements and mediums belonging to the subjects to her stories.

Recently, she has been interested in art therapy, where she would like to involve the protagonists more, giving them the chance to express themselves and interact in telling their own story, by adding their drawings alongside her photographs. 

Heba Khamis is based between Alexandria, Egypt and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

From her series “Black Birds”

On joining the collective, Heba Khamis shares: "After many years of walking in this world and industry independently, today I am glad to part of a team of 18 individuals from all over the globe (14 photographers and 4 office staff) with different perspectives on life, to walk in hand with. We follow the same passion for storytelling and ethics . By joining the NOOR family, I believe we will inspire and feed from each other, deepening our understanding in telling meaningful stories. We will help each other to reach out and tell people’s stories that need to be told, and to share them with all those waiting to hear."

"It is a great pride that Heba joins NOOR. Her work, in addition to being visually fascinating, fills us with deep compassion for others. Her respectful approach is important and necessary. With Heba joining our collective supports further our mission and our will to tell, witness, and document issues of our time," shares NOOR Managing Director Clement Saccomani.

NOOR Author Tanya Habjouqa shares: "I had been following the work of Heba Khamis for years, with a curiosity for who this photographer was who seamlessly blended poetics and some of the more darker aspects of socio-politics and humanity. The work was brilliant, no doubt, but what took me even more aback was listening to her speech when she received her first World Press Photo award for Banned Beauty. 

"She, of course, referenced to girls and women who let her into their lives so intimately, but mentioned  her recently deceased father, reflecting how to make quality work , it can come at a personal cost. She had not made it back in time from on assignment to say a proper good by  to her father before he passed. There was not a dry eye in the place, and Heba has that affect. In person, and in her work. A kindness and soulful quiet. That rare breed of humble. And then she did it again, a consecutive World Press Photo…from diverse locations that are not close to her home or reality, but again…so intimately and respectfully she captures it. 

"She is not a one trick pony—but will continue to surprise and evolve and question our medium. And elevate the bar for all of us. An honor to have Heba in our NOOR Family."

NOOR dedicates September to our Environment

For more than a decade, NOOR Authors have documented our growing climate crisis caused by fossil fuel production and material consumption along with the political forces enabling this planetary catastrophe. Through our work we have also pointed to solutions to help ensure sustainable human presence on this planet. The need for action is urgent.

As world leaders meet in New York City next month and climate actions are planned world wide, we will dedicate the month of September to sharing stories on the environment from our archive and works in progress. Please follow these stories on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

We encourage our media partners, researchers, and our community to do the same.

Arctic: New Frontier at the Festival L'Homme et la Mer

We are pleased to invite you to the Festival L'Homme et la Mer in Guilvinec, France, where the project "Arctic: New Frontier" by Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev will be exhibitied. The photographers documented the irreversible impact climate change has had on the entire Arctic territory.

This project has been awarded the 9th Prix Carmignac for Photojournalism, supported by the Carmignac Foundation.