Our December Newsletter is out now, so make sure to check out the latest work at NOOR, as well as education opportunities, and all the upcoming exhibitions!
Leonard Pongo | Featured in Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) 2018 year in pictures.
Léonard Pongo is featured in Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) 2018 year in pictures.
Make sure to see the feature here: https://bit.ly/2VWO9Vz
Project Launch | Reconstruction of Identities
NOOR is excited to share the recently launched Reconstruction of Identities #RIO Project, a project aiming to promote and protect the richness of both national and European cultural heritage. The RIO Project will breathe life into small communities by stimulating cultural activities as an alternative communication method between locals and newcomers.
This project has been set up through close collaboration between Creative Europe, The Municipality of Savignano Sul Rubicone, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Ad Hoc, and NOOR.
To enhance communication between foreigners and locals within such communities, RIO project aims to organise a wide-ranging programme of talks, conferences, guided tours, and book-signings; it promotes the opening of artists’ residencies, the organisation and circulation of exhibitions, and the lending of artworks to other museums or institutions; it aims at providing young and amateur photographers with educational resources, activities and workshops.
Keep an eye on the RIO website or Instagram page for the latest news and updates!
Tanya Habjouqa | SEVENTY YEARS OF SUFFOCATION with Amnesty International
Photo by Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR
2018 marks 70 years since the expulsion and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, villages and cities during the one-year conflict that created Israel in 1948. Since then, the Nakba (catastrophe), as it is known in Arabic to Palestinians, has been engraved in Palestinian collective consciousness as a story of relentless dispossession.
We are proud to share this new digital plateform where NOOR's Tanya Habjouqa collaborated together Amnesty International in producing this immersive photo-story on 70 years of Palestinian displacement.
TIME's top 100 photos of 2018
Photo by Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for Carmignac Fondation
Yuri Kozyrev's & Kadir van Lohuizen's latest project, Arctic: New Frontier, is in TIME's top 100 photos of 2018. Their Arctic project is laureate of the 9th Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme.
Kadir van Lohuizen | #BlackFriday The impact of waste to our planet
On America's most wasteful weekend, #BlackFriday, we look back at the impact of waste to our planet with Kadir van Lohuizen's project Wasteland in the Washington Post. The world generates at least 3.5 million tons of solid waste a day, 10 times the amount a century ago, according to World Bank researchers. On average, Americans throw away their own body weight in trash every month.
Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Pep Bonet | Breaking the Spanish Windsurf record at Lüderitz Speed Challenge
For the past 5 weeks, Nikon European Ambassador Pep Bonet was in Namibia at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge and broke the Spanish Windsurf record, 50,48 knots on 500 meters, and 8th place at the Lüderitz Challenge. He was sponsored by Nikon Europe to film his winning race with the latest Nikon Keymission 170, check out the video now!
Nina Berman | An Autobiography of Miss Wish shortlisted for the 2018 Aperture Paris Photo photobook award
We're proud to share that Nina Berman and Kimberly Stevens' book "An Autobiography of Miss Wish" has been shortlisted to the 2018 Aperture Paris Photo photobook award.
Nina Berman | To Trump supporters, CNN’s Jim Acosta is an enemy and a selfie trophy
In Columbia Journalism Review, Nina Berman wrote about how the Trump administration has been targeting journalists, such as CNN’s Jim Acosta, as the enemy of the people.
Photo by Nina Berman / NOOR
Andrea Bruce | Our Democracy
Photo by Andrea Bruce / NOOR
In the scope of the US Midterms elections, NPR talked with Andrea Bruce about her latest project "Our Democracy". For the past 15 years, Andrea Bruce worked as a photojournalist in foreign countries that were at war or were in conflict. Places like Iraq and Afghanistan, where elections were often accompanied with corruption, sacrifice, protests and, often, death. Now, Andrea Bruce has been traveling throughout the United States to document why some voters won't cast their ballot this year.
