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

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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.

An interview with Jon Lowenstein

Jon Lowenstein was interviewed by N-Photo and digitalcameraworld.com about his upcoming book South Side and his film The Advocate.

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.

Behind the screen with Jon Lowenstein

John Lowenstein discussed his documentary 'The Advocate' during a KnownOrigin livestream.

Watch the full video here!

The Advocate Film Crowdfunding Campaign

© Jon Lowenstein / NOOR

Support Jon Lowenstein's crowdfunding campaign for his upcoming feature-length documentary film, THE ADVOCATE, examining the journey of Jedidiah Brown and several other African-American community activists searching for ways to create a sustainable life while relentlessly fighting for justice in their community on Chicago's South Side. 

The Advocate follows activist Jedidiah Brown’s struggle over a 4 year period to construct a healthy identity and personal meaning from the ashes of an utterly dispossessed, segregated and neglected post-industrial community on Chicago’s South Side. The film will help people understand the extraordinary levels of hard work, sacrifice and trauma experienced by individual young  advocates in the United States in order to make our country a better place to live for everyone. This is an unmistakably Chicago story, but it echoes a timeless narrative in world literature, native cultures, even religious scriptures: this story is about fighting for one’s home.

At its core, The Advocate is about community, loss, resilience, and the highly personal struggle to construct viable identities and lives in a place offering few functional models for young people. Jedidiah’s story provides a personal account of what it means to fight for something larger than yourself, almost lose everything, survive, and rebuild. Through it all we see these young people challenging and changing the rigid and highly segregated social landscape that is the Second City.

Fundraiser For Racial and Social Justice

Print Sale Supporting local Black run community organisations in Chicago and Oakland, USA.

In an effort to support poor and working class black communities in the United States who have been devastated by generations of disinvestment, social segregation and institutional racism, NOOR will offer a series of 3 images for sale that will benefit the rebuilding and reimagining of our country.

By offering these prints, we encourage our larger global community to become politically active in struggles for racial and gender equality and the rights of indigenous people.

All profits from the sales will go to the following groups: Nina Berman’s print to Assata’s Daughters, an organization of young radical African-American women and girls fighting police violence in Chicago; Jon Lowenstein’s print to the Black women led South Merrill Community Garden on Chicago’s South Side, and Stanley Greene’s print to The People’s Breakfast Oakland.

These are open editioned, unsigned inkjet prints 10x8 inch (25 x 20 cm) print priced at $225 Euros each. If you donate to a local social justice group, send us an email with the screenshot of your donation to shop@noorimages.com and we will send you a 50% discount code. This fundraiser will last until June 30th, all prints will be shipped after the end of the sale.

Jedidiah Brown - Short film on Channel 4

Jon Lowenstein's short film on Chicago activist Jedidiah Brown is shown on Channel 4 with commentary after by Angela Davis. #JedidiahBrown #GeorgeFloyd

Screenshot from the documentary - @jonlowenstein / NOOR FILMS

NOOR Film at the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

As part of NOOR's year long collaboration with the Musée de la Photographie, Nina Berman and Jon Lowenstein will be showing their respective films The Triumph of the Shill and Lincoln's Promise in the museum's "Boite Noir", from January 25th to May 5th

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.

© Tanya Habjouqa