'she who tells the story' with work from tanya habjouqa on view

 

The work of NOOR photographer Tanya Habjouqa is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington D.C. through July 31, 2016.  Her series of images "Woman of Gaza" (2009) is selected for the exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World. Tanya challenges existing gender stereotypes and explores how Palestinian women's lives are influenced by their day-to-day activities.

 

The exhibition is thoroughly curated by Kathryn Wat and Kristen Gresh and features 12 female artists from Iran and Arab world: Jananne Al-Ani, Boushra Almurawakel, Gohar Dashti, Rana El Nemr, Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian, Tanya Habjouqa, Rula Halawani, Nermine Hammam, Rania Matar, Shirin Neshat, and Newsha Tavakolian. She who Tells a Story provides visitors with a fresh perspective on women from this region and invites to in-depth discussion on themes like feminine identity, protest, war and piece.

 

To learn more about the exhibited works, including those by Tanya, you can listen the audio guide or read the transcripts.

 

Photo ©Tanya Habjouqa

 

alixandra fazzina lecture & workshop: visualizing migration

Lecture: Visualizing Migration

On June 10th 2016, NOOR Photographer Alixandra Fazzina was invited by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles to teach a daylong workshop on documentary storytelling & the ethics of getting close to your subjects. The workshop was followed by a public lecture on “Visualizing Migration". During her talk Alixandra shared her experiences chronicling the journeys of refugees and migrants from Somalia to Arabian peninsula, which culminated in the book “A Million Shillings’ Escape from Somalia”.  The lecture was live-streamed and recorded, you can watch it online here.

 

Photo by Unique Nicole

dwi prasetya visual story | erasmus huis fellowship winner

 

NOOR is happy to share with you Dwi Prasetya's visual story, a winner of the 2016 Erasmus Huis Fellowship to Amsterdam and Indonesian photojournalist at Bisnis Indonesia Daily. During his residency training in the Netherlands (from 21 April to 3 May) Dwi worked on the photo project 'Soft Drug Policy' mentored by Kadir van Lohuizen. To see the photo story visit NOOR educational project page.

 

Every year Erasmus Huis Fellowship selects only the best Permata Photojournalists Grant (PGG) alumni as winner. Through this fellowship, Erasmus Huis and PermataBank offer one-week residency in Amsterdam as well as an opportunity to work on a photo story mentored by Kadir van Lohuizen.

 

Photo © Dwi Prasetya

sebastian liste wins the stern grant

We are excited to announce that Sebastian Liste has been awarded the STERN Grant,

the newly-established scholarship award for young photojournalists, at this year's

LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism.

 

 

'I’m very pleased to win the stern Grant and feel honored by the confidence the team at stern Magazine is putting in my work. Over the past seven years, I have been conducting an in-depth research on crime, punishment and security in Latin America. Violence in Mexico, in particular, has become naturalized in everyday life and is reproduced across diverse spheres of society. The grant will provide me with the necessary time and funds to further investigate the roots of this endemic violence and its impact on the entire nation.' Sebastian Liste

 

Check out Sebastian Liste's work on Latin America: ow.ly/dice301oi0O

lesson plan for stanley greene's "hidden scars" | aftermath project work

Minutka Circle, Grozny. January 1995. Chechen rebels retrieve their dead commander in silence.

Hidden Scars

“My photographs are not about technique or “art”; they’re about pure gut feel and an attempt to discover hidden scars. At first, war photography seemed like a way to test myself, to exist on a knife-edge where there’s constant proof of being alive. Today covering conflicts is a very personal form of protest.”

Stanley Greene

 

A new lesson plan for educators featuring Stanley Greene’s work “Hidden Scars” from Chechnya in conversation with his collection of photographs “Open Wound” is now available for free use. The lesson plan and image guide can be downloaded from the Aftermath Project website.

 

 The suite of lessons is developed for photography educators who want to help their students to:

 

  • explore the idea of visual echoes in photographs from war and its aftermath;
  • develop and practice visual analysis and interpretive skills with visual echoes;
  • explore how context and perspective of the conflict photographer inform our understanding of  their image 

The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization that awards grants to documentary photographers covering the aftermath of conflict. Every year the Aftermath Project also publishes book of works by its grant finalists. 

 

Stanley Greene covered the Caucasus region for two decades.  His perspective on war in Chechnya culminated in the work “Open Wound” (2003). The series of images “Hidden Scars” (2013) explored the aftermath of war and was produced through the support of the Aftermath Project grant.

 

Photos ©Stanley Greene