Applications Open for the 2022 Nikon-NOOR Academy

The 2022 Nikon-NOOR Academy includes three intensive workshops that will be held in France, Hungary and Poland. Apply now for the tuition-free initiative.

© Andrea Bruce/ NOOR

Applications are now open for the tuition-free Nikon-NOOR Academy which will be held in France, Hungary and Poland.

For this edition, three workshops will take place independently in three different countries in Europe. Each workshop has 15 participants and consists of four all-day sessions directed by three NOOR authors.These authors will work closely with participants, sharing experiences, working on portfolios, guiding editing skills, and offering advice on creating impactful visual stories. Additionally, key industry figures will join the sessions to give inspiring lectures on new approaches and innovative practices relating to visual storytelling.

Due to COVID19 restrictions, all Nikon NOOR Academy workshops are postponed and will take place in March 2022 at the earliest. These workshops aim to be in-person and will abide by each country’s COVID19 regulations.

The application process

Applicants are encouraged to include in their portfolio a personal project they would like to engage with during the workshop and indicate in their motivation statement what they want to explore concerning that work. Jurors are looking for compelling visuals and stories. It should be noted that each workshop has specific criteria.

All three workshops are tuition-free for participants and open to emerging visual storytellers from the following countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

Applicants can only apply to one workshop location. Multiple applications to different workshops will not be considered. We strongly encourage photographers to apply to workshop locations in their surrounding regions.

Participants will be chosen by a panel of industry professionals. The deadline to apply is Sunday, January 30, 2022.

NOOR Authors

NOOR authors involved in the 2022 Nikon-NOOR Academy include Andrea Bruce, Tanya Habjouqa, Yuri Kozyrev, Olga Kravets, Bénédicte Kurzen, Kadir van Lohuizen, Sanne De Wilde, and Francesco Zizola. Please note that this may be subject to change.

Note: The 2022 Nikon-NOOR Academy in Poland is dedicated to female and non-binary identifying talent. Please refer to the application portal for more details.

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The 2021 Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship Recipient Announced

Introducing the 2021 Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipient, Tako Robakidze.

From the project Creeping Borders. Photo © Tako Robakidze.

NOOR Images is a foundation and creative production platform dedicated to pressing environmental, social, and humanitarian issues through compelling visual narratives. We are dedicated to driving social change through documentary practice and supporting the craft and professional aspirations of underrepresented photojournalists, whose creative work embodies the commitment and passion Stanley brought to photography. The 2021 Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship recipient is Tako Robakidze for her long-term project 'Creeping Borders', which shows how the Russian occupation in Georgia affects people's daily lives in the villages along the alleged "border" and shares the stories of Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) who have suffered along the way.

"It is an absolute honour to receive the prize and fellowship associated with Stanley Greene", says Tako Robakidze. "He knew my country intimately and worked on projects that conveyed the depth of the Caucasus region".

In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian-backed separatists in the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region started a war to claim independence from Georgia. Up to 300,000 Georgians were displaced. These figures have only increased since the so-called "Five Day War" between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and up to 20% of Georgian territory is now under Russian occupation. Since 2011 Russian armed forces have pursued the policy of so-called "borderization", the installation of artificial barriers along the occupation line.

"I was born one year before the collapse of the Soviet Union", recalls Tako Robakidze. "A series of wars followed in my country. My parents were doctors and worked in hospitals where IDPs from Abkhazia settled. After school, I'd go to the hospital where my mother worked–– I played with children from the IDP families. These are some of my fondest memories, yet I had no accurate understanding of what was happening".

From the project Creeping Borders. Photo © Tako Robakidze.

"Learning about these people, who I had spent my childhood with, and seeing the realities of today, motivated me to pursue this underreported topic, which focuses on displacement. I initially researched borderization in 2015 and visited every village bordering the Tskhinvali region to investigate the consequences of this process", says Robakidze. "It seemed unimaginably absurd to live in this reality, with these changing places without moving from places".  

As the Russian occupation and the shifting of de-facto borders moves deeper, more territories gather behind the barbed-wire fences, leaving the local community without land, harvest, and even residents' own houses. It divides families and communities, preventing people-to-people contact; moreover, kidnapping residents for "illegal border crossing" by the Russian FSB has become almost a common practice. Since the start of the "borderization", more than 1000 people have been detained. Families across the occupation line have to deal with violations of human rights daily. 

"The installation of barbed wire fences and artificial obstacles changed the local population's everyday life, and for odd reasons, this reality has become "normal". With this project, I want to demonstrate the numerous ways mass media can change normalized discourse through awareness. Hopefully, this will lead us all to think about result-based actions".

"With the support of the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship, I am going to create a separate platform on my website dedicated to continuing the stories of people affected by war and those who no longer have a home in their homeland. The platform will focus on Georgia initially; however, it is equally important for me to cover other regional experiences of war. My aim in the next iteration of 'Creeping Borders' is to support opportunities of care, discussion, and empathy within the communities". 

"There are many stories, such as the human toll of borderization, that illustrate 'grey areas' in international relations, and they are not common knowledge to the majority of the world. I hope that my stories somehow can elevate the stories of small countries like Georgia. I want to remind locals and foreigners that the occupation is still ongoing, and somewhere people just like us are suffering from circumstances like this".

‘Creeping Borders’ was produced with the support of the Magnum Foundation as part of the Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. This body of work was exhibited at the 2018 Tbilisi Photo Festival.

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TAKO ROBAKIDZE

Biography: Tako Robakidze is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2008 she received a Bachelor's degree in Law at Tbilisi State University. In conjunction with her university studies, she was enrolled in the documentary photography 'Sepia' and continued her studies for 5 years. In 2015, she received her master's degree from Caucasus University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since 2010 she has worked as a freelance photographer, cooperating with Georgian and international NGOs, covering diverse social topics. 

Since 2015, she has been a member and co-founder of the documentary photo collective ERROR IMAGES. In 2017 she received the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum Multimedia Lab Production Grant. In 2020 for her work about Georgian IDPs, she got a production grant from Goethe Institute. Her work is focused on documenting socio-political and economic conditions in Georgia and aspects of daily life, especially in regions of the country and minority groups of society.

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2021 PRIZE AND FELLOWSHIP JURY

NOOR acknowledges this year’s Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship judges, which included a panel of experts in the visual storytelling field.

• Tanya Lokshina, associate director for Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division.

• Thomas Dworzak, photographer and Magnum Photos Member.

• Marie Sumalla, deputy head of Le Monde photo department.

• Andrei Polikanov, visual director of Takie Dela online media.

• Nestan Nijaradze, co-founder and Artistic Director of Tbilisi Photo Festival.

• Raisa Borshchigova, senior program officer at Urgent Action Fund.

• Frank Zuidweg, Nikon Professional Services at Nikon Europe (Amsterdam).

• Jean-François Camp, president of DUREV Events.

Learn more about the 2021 Fellowship jury.

NOOR additionally extends a special thanks to Nikon. The Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship is made possible by Nikon’s sustained support.

Announcing the 2021 Tanzanian and Kenyan Climate Photojournalism Program Participants

In collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tanzania and Kenya, the participants of the ‘Capturing Climate Change’ program with Kadir van Lohuizen are Calvin Kulaya, Rahabu Manyasani, Imani Nsamila and Michael Mbwambo (Tanzania) and Anthony Ochieng, Cynthia Maiwa, Billy Miaron and Gordwin Odhiambo (Kenya).

Photo © Calvin Kulaya

Dar es Salaam, TZ – NOOR, a cultural institution based in the Netherlands, announces the attendees of the four-day photojournalism program, ‘Capturing Climate Change’, with renowned photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen. From the 8th to the 11th of November, these eight photojournalists will develop their climate-related visual stories under the guidance of Kadir, encouraging them to strengthen their documentary practice and examine their construction of climate change narratives.

Photo © Anthony Ochieng, from ‘Powering the 'Ghost Town' of Rusinga Island’.

Initiated by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tanzania and Kenya and supported by PAWA254, the British Council Tanzania and the Alliance Française, ‘Capturing Climate Change’ hopes to engage visual journalists, Calvin Kulaya, Rahabu Manyasani, Imani Nsamila and Michael Mbwambo (Tanzania) and Anthony Ochieng, Cynthia Maiwa, Billy Miaron and Gordwin Odhiambo (Kenya), in the global conversation of climate change by elevating the significance of human stories.

“The program will provide these photojournalists with the skills needed to tell stories about how climate change is affecting their communities,” says Kadir van Lohuizen, “[as well as] how to work on long-term projects and create powerful work that will bring awareness and engage with adaptation strategies to confront the climate crisis”.

Photo © Cynthia MaiWa

Undeniably, climate change is impacting the world, and the adverse effects will only increase in the future. Kadir has devoted his career to this critical issue. With his direction, program attendees will produce eight unique and impactful visual stories that highlight the ongoing climate dynamics Tanzanian and Kenyan urban youth face. Afterwards, these productions will be showcased in an exhibition on the climate crisis at a later date in both Tanzania and Kenya.

“This is part of the Netherlands commitment to co-create solutions to global challenges,” says the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tanzania, H.E. Wiebe de Boer. “Climate change might be the biggest challenge we face at this moment. By empowering the local photojournalists, we hope to contribute to give youth a voice and raise awareness on how the climate crisis affects their communities”.

For more information, contact:

Samira Damato - Project Manager & Curator

samira@noorimages.com

The 2021 Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship Shortlist

Introducing the 2021 Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship Shortlist: Biayna Mahari, Tako Robakidze and Mouneb Taim.

From left to right: Biayna Mahari, Tako Robakidze and Mouneb Taim.

NOOR, a lens-based cultural institution, and the NOOR Foundation, a non-profit committed to social change through documentary practice, supports the craft and professional aspirations of underrepresented photojournalists whose creative work echoes the commitment and passion with which Stanley approached photography. The 2021 shortlisted candidates for the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship are Biayna Mahari, Tako Robakidze and Mouneb Taim.

“In my opinion, the three shortlisted photographers each represent the courageous dedication that the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship embodies,” says jury member Thomas Dworzak. “Biayna Mahari, an emerging photographer, presented a very intimate, and at times quirky, poetic expression of a well-covered conflict in her own country. Tako Robakidze, on the other hand, concentrated relentlessly on documenting an easily forgotten conflict with an unending commitment. And, Mouneb Taim, a very young photographer, recorded his country's disintegration.”

This iteration of the fellowship focused on applicants based in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Biayna Mahari, positioned between her native country of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, draws on traditional photojournalism and metaphorical photography to investigate the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh and how it intersects with personal identity both in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh; Tako Robakidze, based in Tbilisi, Georgia, explores the impact of Russia’s borderization process on Georgians; and Mouneb Taim, born in Syria and established in Turkey, focused on the Syrian conflict and the humanitarian crisis that ensued.

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The 2021 Shortlisted Photographers

Biayna Mahari

Broken TV in a house where refugees from Hadrut currently live. From the project Diary of a non-war photographer. Photo © Biayna Mahari.

Project: Diary of a non-war photographer investigates the 2020 war in Nagorno-Karabakh and how it intersects with personal identity both in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. “On September 27, 2020,” Biayna Mahari writes, “I woke up to a war. I was living my life––planning to meet my friends or maybe read a book, I no longer remember––when all of a sudden, with a single news announcement, I appeared in a conflict zone.”

Since that day, there has been little semblance of the life that existed before. In an effort to understand this new reality, Biayna looked away from the frontline of the conflict, and focused on the intimate details that were shared by others, civilians, who were experiencing the same seismic upheaval. Biayna says: “It’s me standing in the yard watching Arthur burn his own house down in the village’s last hour, and me saying goodbye to the Dadivank monastery before it will be given away, and me drinking beer in the only pub in Stepanakert, talking about the war with the owner, while he cleans his gun.” 

“It's me, but it is not about me. It’s about Armenians trying to survive through grief and loss, about those who took their weapons and went to protect their land, those who didn’t, those who came back home and who didn’t, about life and death, love and hate and, finally, it’s about all of us — humans, who create the wars, suffer from them, and then create them again.”

Biography: Biayna Mahari was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1989. She began freelancing as a photographer and journalist in 2009, while still a student at the Russian-Armenian University, covering cultural events and festivals, and photographing and interviewing artists like Serj Tankyan and Joe Cocker for local magazines. She has since produced projects on the country's 2018 Velvet Revolution, "La vita è bella," about being trapped in Italy during the Covid19 lockdown, and "Rethinking Quarantine," a set of portraits and interviews made through skype calls with those trapped with her in the same building for a mandatory quarantine. She has produced work for many local NGOs, as well as international organizations such as Unicef, FAO, and the UNDP. Her work has appeared in many local magazines, and in Nouvelle d'Armenie and Liberation in France and La Republica in Italy. In 2020 she was awarded a director fellowship to attend the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Tako Robakidze

Marina was a school teacher in the village Kemerti, which is now an occupied territory. After the war in 2008, she and her family settled in an IDP settlement in the village Shavshvebi. Even though people who lived in the Tskhinvali region were in constant war for 20 years, and shootings were part of their everyday life, they still never imagined leaving their houses. Shavshvebi IDP Settlement, Georgia. 2017. From the project Creeping Borders. Photo © Tako Robakidze.

Project: "For some people in my country, it is not difficult anymore to imagine going to sleep in their own country and waking up in an occupied territory." –– Tako Robakidze.

Creeping Borders shows how the Russian occupation affects peoples' daily lives in the villages along the so-called "border" and IDPs who have suffered along the way. 

In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian-backed separatists in the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region started a war to claim independence from Georgia. Up to 300,000 Georgians were displaced. These figures have only increased since the so-called "Five Day War" between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and up to 20% of Georgian territory is now under Russian occupation. Since 2011 Russian armed forces have pursued the policy of so-called "borderization," the installation of artificial barriers along the occupation line. 

As the topic of Russian occupation and the shifting of de-facto borders moves deeper, more territories gather behind the barbed-wire fences, leaving the local community without land, harvest, and even residents' own houses. It divides families and communities, preventing people-to-people contact; moreover, kidnapping residents for "illegal border crossing" by Russian FSB has become almost a common practice. Since the start of the "borderization," more than 1000 people have been detained. Families across the occupation line have to deal with violations of human rights on a daily basis. 

"Creeping Borders" was produced with the support of the Magnum Foundation as part of the Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. This body of work was exhibited at the 2018 Tbilisi Photo Festival.

Biography: Tako Robakidze is a documentary photographer based in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2008 she got a Bachelor's degree in Law at Tbilisi State University. In conjunction with her university studies, she was enrolled in the documentary photography 'Sepia' and continued her studies for 5 years. In 2015, she received her master's degree from Caucasus University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since 2010 she has worked as a freelance photographer, cooperating with Georgian and international NGOs, covering diverse social topics. 

Since 2015, she has been a member and co-founder of the documentary photo collective ERROR IMAGES. In 2017 she received the Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellowship. In 2020 she was the recipient of the Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum Multimedia Lab Production Grant. In 2020 for her work about Georgian IDPs, she got a production grant from Goethe Institute. Her work is focused on documenting socio-political and economic conditions in Georgia and aspects of daily life, especially in regions of the country and minority groups of society.

Mouneb Taim

An aerial view of a drone showing the terrible destruction in the city of Jobar, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. From the project Idlib - the last rebel stronghold. Photo © Mouneb Taim.

Project: After more than ten years of conflict, the Syrian regime's forces regained more than ninety percent of areas out of their control. The city of Idlib, in northern Syria, was the opposition forces' last remaining outpost, a place now embedded in the conflict and the promise of defeating the rebel forces for the final time. 

Idlib - the last rebel stronghold, illustrates the struggle of civilians to bypass the war in the besieged region in northern Syria. The lives of residents are markedly different from others: there are airstrikes and bombings between government forces and the rebellion every day. There is an unnaturalness to each day, even though the conflict has taken on some semblance of normalcy to those living there: it is common to see bombs fall, watch people die, and hear the destruction of buildings.

While the truth of this war cannot be denied–– there are no winners or losers––some people are trying to resist the bitterness of this terrible war with their determination, hope, and desire to live. With the support of the Russian forces, the people in Idlib were forced to leave the area after months of violent bombing operations that caused the deaths of thousands. 

Today, more than four million Syrians live in a minimal area. They are effectively human shields, threatened with death from both sides by the militant forces that control the site, the so-called Al-Nusra Front, and the Syrian government, who plan to regain that area. 

Biography: Mouneb Taim, born in 2001, is a photojournalist who covers news stories focusing on social issues. Currently working as a freelance photographer for international agencies, he began his career in photojournalism in 2014 following the murder of his brother, a journalist in Syria. While in his native country, he covered life under siege in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Idlib, and the countryside of Aleppo until early 2020 when Islamic organizations arrested him in his city for being gay. Mouneb has received several international awards for his work.

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2021 Prize and Fellowship Jury

NOOR acknowledges this year’s Fellowship judges, which included a panel of experts in the visual storytelling field.

• Tanya Lokshina, associate director for Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division.

• Thomas Dworzak, photographer and Magnum Photos Member.

• Marie Sumalla, deputy head of Le Monde photo department.

• Andrei Polikanov, visual director of Takie Dela online media.

• Nestan Nijaradze, co-founder and Artistic Director of Tbilisi Photo Festival.

• Raisa Borshchigova, senior program officer at Urgent Action Fund.

• Frank Zuidweg, Nikon Professional Services at Nikon Europe (Amsterdam).

• Jean-François Camp, president of DUREV Events.

Learn more about the 2021 Fellowship jury.

NOOR additionally extends a special thanks to Nikon. The Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship is made possible by Nikon’s sustained support.

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Photographers Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen publish their book: Land of Ibeji

Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen / NOOR

Discover all about the Land of Ibeji

Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen investigate the mythology of twins in Nigeria where the rate of natural twin births is higher than anywhere else in the world. As sacred beings, twins’ magical and spiritual powers are celebrated with mythical fervour, but also condemned as unnatural.It was a path he never would have taken, because he never could have imagined it. 

‘Land of Ibeji’ is a collaborative photographic project about the mythology of twinhood in Nigeria“Ibeji” meaning 'double birth' and ‘the inseparable two’ in Yoruba stands for the ultimate harmony between two people. The centre of this twin zone is Igbo-Ora, a sleepy southwest town in Nigeria. Through a visual narrative and an aesthetic language that is meant to reflect and empower the Yoruba culture that celebrates twins, the two photographers extend their gaze beyond appearance - with symmetry and resemblance as tools- to open the eyes to the twin as a mythological figure and a powerful metaphor: for the duality within a human being and the duality we experience in the world that surrounds us.

They played with the concept of doubling to create an imaginative photographic story, using double exposures, mirror reflections and colour filters. Through these pictorial processes, the two artists produced inventive double portraits, while also working together as twin-like co-authors. Land of Ibeji is the magical, colourful result.

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About the book

Now for sale in the NOOR Shop!

Next to the regular signed book there is also a limited edition that includes a signed print. There are only 44 of them available!

Order now and receive your book in August 2021

Signed book for €59  excl. VAT and shipping costs

Signed book + signed Fine Art Baryta print (only 44 units available) for €248 excl. VAT and shipping costs

Photographer Pep Bonet publishes his photobook: Hellbangers

Discover all about Botswana’s underground metal culture

Photographer Pep Bonet has been following Overthrust, a heavy metal band from Botswana, Africa, and shows us a growing, exciting and thoroughly organic heavy metal community. Ten years ago, one group existed. Today there are more than ten – and their fans are growing every year.

“Hellbangers is an affirmation that at its core shows the strength and power of the metal community in Africa, and how it connects around the world. The love and devotion to the music that these wonderful maniacs show scream out to us with absolute conviction – we are all united by the essence of the metal heart and spirit of the Hellbangers!”

— Rob Halford (Judas Priest)

The inhabitants of Botswana portrayed in this book are tattood, wear loudly and proudly leather jackets, leather trousers and play heavy death metal music. Imagine the DIY ingenuity of their ‘costume creation’ involving harvested animal skulls and other natural elements.

With names like Demon and Gunsmoke, it would be easy though to think they are thugs, but “We try to be exemples. Rock is a wild thing, but also something for the heart”, says Gunsmoke, the heavy metal head. Here too, the lyrics of the songs are very critical towards societies, just like their western peers. Metal in Botswana is rebellious movement against authorities. This is the story of what looks at first to be an unlikely union, yet one which powerfully illustrates how music, how heavy metal music, has become a positively unifying force in an unlikely part of the world.

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About the book

Now for sale in the NOOR Shop!

PRE-SALE OFFER WHEN YOU ORDER BEFORE JULY 31ST 2021:

Signed book + original photograph (numbered, signed and stamped) for €199 + VAT and shipping costs

Only 50 units available

The second Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship now accepting submissions

Stanley Greene / NOOR

NOOR & the NOOR Foundation are extremely proud to announce the second Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship. The Fellowship will support the work and professional aspirations of underrepresented photojournalists who create work that echoes the passion with which Stanley approached photography.

This chapter of the fellowship prize will focus on applicants based in the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Find more information about the Fellowship and Submission deadlines here

'Arctic: New frontier' exhibited at Gallery Vriend van Bavink

Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

Kadir van Lohuizen's and Yuri Kozyrev's work about the arctic is exhibited at Gallery Vriend van Bavink from April 23rd until July 10th. The double expedition project focuses on the consequences of the melting sea ice for the planet, and the medium-term prospect of its total disappearance.

Register to visit here!

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!