Sebastian Liste

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

© Andrea Bruce / NOOR

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Nikon-NOOR Academy | Talk at El Observatorio in Barcelona

During the Nikon-NOOR Academy in Barcelona, visual-storytellers Tanya Habjouqa, Sebastian Liste, and Jon Lowenstein will talk at El Observatorio on November 13, 2019, at 7:30 P.M.

The discussion will focus on the distinct approaches and styles used by each photographer when addressing subjects with global effects, in very different parts of the world: Moderated by Jessica Murray, this event is free and open to the public. The talk will be in Spanish and English with translation.

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© Tanya Habjouqa

Sanne De Wilde, Sebastian Liste and Kadir van Lohuizen talk at the f2 Dortmund Festival

NOOR visual-storytellers Sanne De Wilde, Sebastián Liste and Kadir van Lohuizen will present a lecture on which form can be creatively helped to create justice at f2 Fotofestival Dortmund on November 8 and 9.

Date: Friday, November 8, 2019

10am: Sanne De Wilde

11am: Sebastian Liste

Location: FH Dortmund

Entrance fee: free entrance

Date: Saturday, November 9, 2019

6pm: Kadir van Lohuizen

Location: FH Dortmund

Entrance fee: free entrance

Sebastian Liste | Featured in TIME with the coverage of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

The Amazon is 10 million years old. Home to 390 billion trees, the vast river basin reigns over South America and is an unrivaled nest of biodiversity. At current rates of deforestation, 27% of the Amazon will be without trees by 2030. Sebastián Liste went to the Amazon for TIME to see the consequences climate change has on the Amazon.

© Sebastian Liste / NOOR for TIME

© Sebastian Liste / NOOR for TIME

Nikon-NOOR Academy | Announcing the Participants for the 2019 Masterclass in Spain

We are delighted to announce the participants selected for the 2019 Nikon-NOOR Academy Spain, which will take place in Barcelona from November the 11th until the 14th, 2019

The tutors for this masterclass are Tanya Habjouqa, Sebastian Liste and Jon Lowenstein.

We would sincerely like to thank all the people who sent forward their applications and congratulate the photographers who will participate to the masterclasses.

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To power the Nikon-NOOR Academy Masterclass applications, we teamed up with our partner Picter, an online platform hosting contests, call for applications as well as tools for professional image-makers simply their workflow.



NOOR Urges Action on Climate Emergency

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NOOR supports the Global Climate Strike that will take place on September the 20th and encourages everyone to join the movement.

 

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.