Candidates of the first Wacken Rock 'n Roll Photography Workshop announced!

Announcing the 2022 Wacken Rock ‘n Roll Photography workshop candidates. From August 4-6, six German-based photographers will take part in the intensive workshop led by NOOR author Pep Bonet.

© Charlotte Anna Rathmann

© Fabian Ritter / DOCKS Collective

© Patrick Junker

© Ronja Falkenbach

© Paula Hornickel

© Jonathan Mahlendorf

The selected candidates are:

Ronja Falkenbach

Paula Hornickel

Patrick Junker

Jonathan Mahlendorf

Charlotte Anna Rathmann

Fabian Ritter

ABOUT

The Wacken Rock ‘n Roll Photography Workshop is a new educational initiative launched as a collaboration between the Wacken Foundation and the NOOR Foundation. Led by NOOR author Pep Bonet, it will empower selected young photographers by facilitating the development of their visual mastery in music, event and festival photography.

The 2021 Nikon-NOOR masterclasses

The 2021 Nikon-NOOR masterclasses are finished. Participants from around the world worked together with NOOR authors Andrea Bruce, Pep Bonet, Heba Khamis, Jon Lowenstein, Sanne De Wilde, Kadir van Lohuizen, Olga Kravets and Tanya Habjouqa to share experiences, work on portfolios, improve editing skills, and learn how to create visual stories.

Discover the names of the Nikon-NOOR Academy participants!

Andrea Bruce on assignment for Ipondr

Andrea Bruce / NOOR

Andrea Bruce went on assignment for iPondr. She captured Brant Ireland, who broke his leg severely in 2013 while on an operation in Afghanistan. His leg got amputated in 2015 and since then he is using a high-tech prosthetic limb. Ireland saw adaptive sports as a chance to get out of his comfort zone and try new things.

Read the article here!

Watch Olga Kravets' films for the Martin Ennals Awards

© Julie de Halleux / Olga Kravets

NOOR Filmmaker Olga Kravets, in collaboration with Pierre-Julien Fieux, Julie de Halleux, Anaïs Chic and Irene Servillo, directed three short animation films to present the three nominees of 2021 Martin Ennals Awards Ceremony that took place on February 11th. The three nominees of this year were Yu Wensheng - Laureate (China), Soltan Achilova (Turkmenistan) and Loujain AlHathloul (Saudi Arabia).

We are also proud to announce that Soltan Achilova's short film will be featured at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), which will take place in Geneva from 5-14 March, 2021.

Watch all the animations here!

The first Nikon-NOOR Masterclasses have started!

The first round of the Nikon-NOOR Academy mastercalsses have started on the 18th of February!

Andrea Bruce, Pep Bonet and Heba Khamis will be teaching the first 15 participants of the Nikon-NOOR masterclasses until the 26th of February.

Stanley Greene Legacy Fellowship & Prize Winner Announced

©️ Sasha Phyars-Burgess

Today, on Stanley’s birthday, the NOOR Documentary Foundation USA, and NOOR are excited to announce that Sasha Phyars-Burgess is the inaugural Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship winner.

Additionally, launching today, we’re excited to share that our long-term partner Nikon Europe will sponsor the second edition Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship.

This second fellowship will be open to early-career photographers, in the first ten years of their professional career, who show great promise and an unquenchable desire to practice photojournalism with a purpose.

Read all about it in our latest newsletter!

Nina Berman and Andrea Bruce featured in National Geographic

Nina Berman / NOOR

For National Geographic, Nina Berman and Andrea Bruce documented the inauguration of President Biden in Washington D.C.

Read the full article here!

Francesco Zizola's work exhibited at Xposure

Francesco Zizola will be present in Dubai at Xposure with an exhibition, a movie and a seminar about his work 'As If We We're Tuna'.

Get your tickets here!

Rising Tide exhibition extended until April 5th

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

The exhibition Rising Tide in the Scheepsvaartmuseum, by Kadir van Lohuizen, is extended until April 5th. Rising Tide serves as a wake-up call that shows that climate change is an unstoppable force that can only be slowed down.

More information & tickets here!

Book presentation by Kadir van Lohuizen: After Us the Deluge

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

Kadir van Lohuizen will give a book presentation on February 18th at Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam.

The presentation of the new book ‘After us the deluge’ by Kadir van Lohuizen is followed by a debate about the climate crisis and the rising sea level. In this debate, it will be discussed what the worst-case scenario could be and how we can prepare ourselves for this. What will be the consequences for island states like Kiribati and do we have enough time to fortify our coastal defences, or is adaptation the way to go? How predictable is the melting of the ice sheets and why are we still not able to bring the temperature down as a agreed at the climate summit in Paris?

Make a reservation here!