Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world. Over the year, we'll retrace some of uprising covered by NOOR Authors Andrea Bruce, Yuri Kozyrev, Stanley Greene among others.
We are delighted to announce the participants selected for the 2021 Nikon-NOOR Academy Masterclasses, which will take place in February and March.
The tutors of this year’s academy are Andrea Bruce, Heba Khamis, Pep Bonet, Sanne De Wilde, Jon Lowenstein, Francesco Zizola, Olga Kravets, Yuri Kozyrev and Kadir van Lohuizen.
We would sincerely like to thank all the people who sent forward their applications and congratulate the photographers who will participate in the masterclasses.
Masterclass A taking place between February 18th to 26th:
Larkat Issam
Sebastian Steveniers
Mano Svanidze
Cletus Nelson Nwadike
Dina Oganova
Cansu Yildiran
Nadja Ellinger
Emily Garthwaite
Stefanie Kulisch
Oleksandr Rupeta
Felix Adler
Thomas Victor
Zoya Shu
Danil Usmanov
Aino Väänänen
Fedor Oshchepkov
Masterclass B taking place between March 4th to 12th:
Irina Shkoda
Ivan Tomasevic
Chloe Alexandra Davies
Mattia Marzorati
Svetlana Bulatova
Kseniia Apresian
Sofia Melikova
Olga Kuzmenkova
Alexis Pazoumian
Ilyas Hajji
Arun Nangla
Maxime Riche
Mikhail Lebedev
Sina Niemeyer
Mayya Kelova
Masterclass C taking place between March 18th to 26th:
Sinawi Medine
Ira Lupu
Matjaz Tancic
Monika Orpik
Marcin Kruk
Michaela Nagyidaiová
Ludwig Nikulski
Kseniia Ivanova
Davit Nersisyan
Robin Alysha Clemens
Ingmar Björn Nolting
Sofia Gavrilova
Amirtharaj Stephen
Maria Grigorieva
Zanda Puče
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.
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
Yuri Kozyrev's work was featured in De Volkskrant on the 4th of February. He captured the vaccination campaign in Russia.
Yuri Kozyrev featured in the German newspaper, Stern, covering the way Russia handles the second wave of corona infections. Kozyrev captured doctors and hospital workers battling the virus in Tver, Russia.
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
Yuri Kozyrev featured in the Dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, covering the hundreds of billions of rubles the Kremlin is spending to beautify Moscow. One of the most remarkable projects is the renovation of the immense sculpture garden of Jozef Stalin.
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
For DeVolkskrant, Yuri Kozyrev photographed the polar town of Pevek, home to the Akademik Lomonosov, the first floating nuclear power plant in the world. Russian President Putin has ordered a whole series of floating power stations to support Russia's expansion into the Arctic.
As of 2018, it was estimated that the Chinese authorities may have detained hundreds of thousands of Muslim Chinese Uyghurs in so-called "reeducation camps". Most people in the camps have never been charged with crimes and have no legal avenues to challenge their detentions. Often, their only crime is being Muslim, human rights groups say, adding that many Uighurs have been labeled as extremists simply for practicing their religion.
Yuri Kozyrev portrayed the Chinese Uyghurs that managed to flee to countries bordering the Xinjiang province.
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
NOOR supports the Global Climate Strike that will take place on September the 20th and encourages everyone to join the movement.
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.
The photographic project "Arctic: New Frontier" by NOOR visual-storytellers Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev was featured in Geo Germany and Le Figaro magazine.
© Kadir van Lohuizen
