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.
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.
Nikon-NOOR Academy | Announcing the Participants for the 2021 Masterclass
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.
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.
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 with Sebastian Liste & Olga Kravets Working in Challenging Environments
We're pleased to announce our next online workshop with NOOR authors Olga Kravets and Sebastian Liste on Friday, December 18th, 2020, at 6:30 pm CET.
This workshop will discuss how to produce meaningful work under pressure, whether that's during challenging times or conflict zones. Olga and Sebastian will also talk about their experiences documenting social justice in conflict territories.
Sebastian Liste / NOOR
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.
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.
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.
Tanya Habjouqa | Applications open for the Youth Photography Workshop in Doha
Tanya Habjouqa will be teaching Doha Film Institute's inaugural Youth Photography Workshop. Each student will create a narrative story about something in their personal lives, home, school, friends, or the world around them.
© Jon Lowenstein / NOOR
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.
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.
Kadir van Lohuizen | Applications Open for the Photography Workshop in Tanzania
NOOR partnered-up with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tanzania to organise a free 2-day Photography Workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from October the 24th until October the 25th.
About the Tutor
Kadir van Lohuizen (NL) has covered conflicts in Africa and elsewhere, but is probably best known for his long-term projects on the seven rivers of the world, the rising of sea levels, the diamond industry and migration in the Americas. His most recent project ‘Arctic: New Frontier’ done together with Yuri Kozyrev for the Fondation Carmignac was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London.
Content
In this workshop participants will discuss, share & learn about the development of a long-term photographic project. NOOR photographer Kadir van Lohuizen is a master of visual narrative and storytelling, allowing him to engage participants into crafting their stories. Together with the participants, he will work on the (re)conceptualizing, sequencing, and narrowing down the series and projects.
Date: Thursday & Friday 24-25 October 2019
Time: 9:00-18:00
Location: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Application deadline: October 6, 2019, at 11:59 P.M. (EAT)