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call for applications: free paris nikon-noor workshop
NOOR and Nikon Europe invite young photographers living and/or working in France to submit their applications for selection for the free NOOR-Nikon Academy workshop taking place in Paris, France from 20 to 23 March 2017.
NOOR photographers Pep Bonet, Robin Hammond & Benedicte Kurzen will lead the workshop, sharing their expertise and working together with participants to develop their visual stories and projects.
DETAILS
Workshop: 20 – 23 March 2017
Deadline to Apply: 22 January 2017, 11:59pm (CET)
Notification of Selection: 8 February 2017
Fee: Free of charge
THE WORKSHOP
During the four-day workshop, 15 participants, together with Pep Bonet, Robin Hammond & Benedicte Kurzen will share experiences, work on portfolios, improve editing skills and learn how to develop visual stories. Participants can look forward to intensive communication with NOOR photographers and their peers on subjects ranging from how to develop and edit a photographic story or project, to the nuances of the international photo market. The workshop is a unique opportunity to learn impactful visual storytelling, further develop personal vision, strengthen ongoing projects and gain new knowledge and contacts in an intimate and interactive environment.
The workshop is free of charge and includes lunch. Please note that travel, accommodation and additional meals are not covered and should be arranged by individual participants. The workshop will take place at the Loft Roquette: 42 Rue de la Roquette, 75011 Paris, France.
The workshop will be focused around developing, editing, refining and presenting/disseminating a visual documentary series, story and/or project. Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the workshop with a body of work they are currently developing, editing, working on and/or thinking about how to share with audiences. Thus, applicants are encouraged to include this work and indicate what they want to explore in relation to the work in their application portfolio and motivation statement.
TUTORS
Pep Bonet is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has travelled extensively capturing profound moments that represent the unbalanced world in which we live. His longer-term projects focus on African issues, with his most well known project being “Faith in Chaos”, a photo essay on the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone. He is also know for a long-term reportage on the rock ‘n roll band Motörhead. Pep was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant in Photography in 2005 and of the Horbach Award in 2015, and won three different World Press Photo Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2013. Pep frequently lectures on photography, multimedia and film, and lives in Mallorca, Spain.
Bénédicte Kurzen began her photographic career when she moved to Israel in 2003, covering hard news as a freelancer in the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon. For the past ten years, Bénédicte has been covering conflicts and socio-economical changes in Africa. Her body of work “Amaqabane”, on the life of former anti-apartheid combatants was produced for prestigious World Press Joop Swart Masterclass 2008. In 2011, she received a grant from the Pulitzer Center, which allowed her to produce a body of work on Nigeria, “A Nation Lost to Gods”. Her work has been screened and exhibited at Visa pour l’Image and was nominated for the Visa d’Or in 2012. After becoming a NOOR full member in 2012, she decided to move to Lagos, from where she could pursue her coverage of Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. Alongside, she became an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Nigeria in journalism.
Robin Hammond is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in human rights and development issues around the world through long-term photographic projects.
He was the recipient of the W.Eugene Smith Fund for Humanistic Photography, a World Press Photo prize, the Pictures of the Year International World Understanding Award and four Amnesty International awards for Human Rights journalism. In 2013 he won the FotoEvidence Book Award for Documenting Social Injustice and the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. Robin is the founder of Witness Change, a non-profit organization dedicated to advance humans rights through highly visual storytelling. His work appears in magazines, newspapers, television and social media. He is currently based in Manchester, UK.
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Charlotte Gonzalez Chloe Sharrock Estelle Car Etienne Maury
Maude Girard Yulia Grigoryants
For more information contact NOOR Education via education@noorimages.com or give us a call at +31.20.6060.780
Photo from NOOR-Nikon 2014 Istanbul Masterclass © Frank Zuidweg
Pop-Up Exhibition 'The Leathermen of Pakistan' by Asim Rafiqui
© Asim Rafiqui / NOOR
NOOR, Oxfam Novib and SOMO are pleased to invite you to the Pop-Up Exhibition The Leathermen of Pakistan by NOOR photographer Asim Rafiqui at Humanity House.
For Oxfam and SOMO, Asim Rafiqui travelled to Karachi to document the deplorable working conditions of Pakistan’s leather industry workers.
Asim Rafiqui will present his work and share his experience in Pakistan.
When: Tuesday, December 20th, 16: 00- 18:00
Where: Humanity House, Prinsegracht 8, The Hague, The Netherlands
Program:
16.00: Welcome by the moderator
16.05: Multimedia presentation
16.15: Intro to Pakistan's leather industry by SOMO researcher Martje Theuws
16.30: Presentation by Asim Rafiqui (NOOR)
17.00: Drinks
BOOK YOUR TICKET
© Asim Rafiqui / NOOR
The leather tanning industry in Pakistan employs about 500,000 Pakistanis who do precarious work under deplorable labour conditions. Chemicals and heavy machinery are used without protective equipment whilst labourers work long hours and still do not earn enough to make a decent living. Leather workers are hired through contractors and have no job security. The leather they produce accounts for 5.4% of Pakistan’s total exports and often ends up in clothing and accessories sold by brands in Europe and the United States.
call for applications: free nikon-noor workshop in berlin
NOOR and Nikon Europe invite young photographers living and/or working in Germany to submit their applications for selection for the 2017 free NOOR-Nikon Academy workshop taking place at C/O Berlin, Germany from 7 to 10 March 2017.
NOOR photographers Yuri Kozyrev, Bénédicte Kurzen and Kadir van Lohuizen will lead the workshop, sharing their expertise and working together with participants to develop their visual stories and projects.
KEY DATES
Workshop: 7 – 10 March 2017
Deadline to Apply: 15 January 2017, 11:59pm (CET)
Notification of Selection: 1 February 2017
Fee: Free of charge
THE WORKSHOP
During the four-day workshop, 15 participants, together with Yuri Kozyrev, Bénédicte Kurzen and Kadir van Lohuizen will share experiences, work on portfolios, improve editing skills and learn how to develop visual stories. Participants can look forward to intensive communication with NOOR photographers and their peers on subjects ranging from how to develop and edit a photographic story or project, to the nuances of the international photo market. The workshop is a unique opportunity to learn impactful visual storytelling, further develop personal vision, strengthen ongoing projects and gain new knowledge and contacts in an intimate and interactive environment.
The workshop is free of charge and includes lunch. Please note that travel, accommodation and additional meals are not covered and should be arranged by individual participants. The workshop will take place at C/O Berlin: Hardenbergstraße 19, 10623 Berlin
The workshop will be focused around developing, editing, refining and presenting/disseminating a visual documentary series, story and/or project. Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the workshop with a body of work they are currently developing, editing, working on and/or thinking about how to share with audiences. Thus, applicants are encouraged to include this work and indicate what they want to explore in relation to the work in their application portfolio and motivation statement.
THE TUTORS
Yuri Kozyrev has worked as a photojournalist for the past 25 years. He started his career documenting the collapse of the Soviet Union, capturing the rapid changes in the former USSR for the LA Times during the 90’s. In 2001, Yuri started to cover international news, working before from Afghanistan and then from Iraq as contract photographer for Time Magazine. Since the beginning of 2011, Yuri has been documenting the “Arab Revolutions” and their aftermaths in Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia and specially Egypt and Libya. Yuri has received numerous honors for his photography, including several World Press Photo Awards, the OPC’s Oliver Rebbot Award, and the ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism, the Frontline Club Award, the Visa d’or News and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados, and he was named 2011 Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition. In 2015, Yuri covered the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the migrant crisis in Europe.
Bénédicte Kurzen began her photographic career when she moved to Israel in 2003, covering hard news as a freelancer in the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon. For the past ten years, Bénédicte has been covering conflicts and socio-economical changes in Africa. Her body of work “Amaqabane”, on the life of former anti-apartheid combatants was produced for prestigious World Press Joop Swart Masterclass 2008. In 2011, she received a grant from the Pulitzer Center, which allowed her to produce a body of work on Nigeria, “A Nation Lost to Gods”. Her work has been screened and exhibited at Visa pour l’Image and was nominated for the Visa d’Or in 2012. After becoming a NOOR full member in 2012, she decided to move to Lagos, from where she could pursue her coverage of Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. Alongside, she became an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Nigeria in journalism.
Kadir van Lohuizen 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. Kadir has received numerous prizes and awards in photojournalism. In 2000 and 2002 Kadir was a jury member of the World Press Photo contest and is currently on the supervisory board of the World Press Photo foundation. Kadir is a frequent lecturer and photography teacher and is based in Amsterdam.
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Arne Piepke Astrid Dill Daniela Koenig Emile Ducke Emine Akbaba Ingmar Björn Nolting Jonas Kako Ksenia Les Lena Mucha Lisa Hermes
Natalya Reznik Paul Lovis Wagner Sebastian Wells Sebi Berens
For more information contact NOOR Education via education@noorimages.com or give us a call at +31.20.6060.780
Photo from NOOR-Nikon 2016 Almaty Masterclass © Nikon Europe
call for applications: free noor-nikon academy workshop amsterdam
NOOR and Nikon Europe invite young photographers living and/or working in The Netherlands to submit their applications for selection for the 2017 free NOOR-Nikon Academy workshop taking place in the Netherlands, Amsterdam from 28 February through 3 March 2017.
NOOR photographers - Pep Bonet, Sebastian Liste & Yuri Kozyrev - will lead the workshop, sharing their expertise and working together with participants to develop their visual stories and projects.
KEY DATES
Workshop: 28 February – 3 March 2017
Deadline to Apply: 8 January 2017, 11:59pm (CET)
Notification of Selection: 26 January 2017
Fee: Free of charge
THE WORKSHOP
During the four-day workshop, 15 participants, together with three NOOR member photographers will share experiences, work on portfolios, improve editing skills and learn how to develop visual stories. Participants can look forward to intensive communication with NOOR photographers and their peers on subjects ranging from how to develop and edit a photographic story or project, to the nuances of the international photo market. The workshop is a unique opportunity to learn impactful visual storytelling, further develop personal vision, strengthen ongoing projects and gain new knowledge and contacts in an intimate and interactive environment.
The workshop is free of charge and includes lunch. Please note that travel, accommodation and additional meals are not covered and should be arranged by individual participants. The workshop will take place at the headquarters of Nikon Europe: Burgerweeshuispad 101, 1076 ER Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The workshop will be focused around developing, editing, refining and presenting/disseminating a visual documentary series, story and/or project. Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the workshop with a body of work they are currently developing, editing, working on and/or thinking about how to share with audiences. Thus, applicants are encouraged to include this work and indicate what they want to explore in relation to the work in their application portfolio and motivation statement.
TUTORS
Pep Bonet is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has travelled extensively capturing profound moments that represent the unbalanced world in which we live. His longer-term projects focus on African issues, with his most well known project being “Faith in Chaos”, a photo essay on the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone. He is also know for a long-term reportage on the rock ‘n roll band Motörhead. Pep was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant in Photography in 2005 and of the Horbach Award in 2015, and won three different World Press Photo Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2013. Pep frequently lectures on photography, multimedia and film, and lives in Mallorca, Spain.
Yuri Kozyrev, as a photojournalist, has witnessed many world-changing events for the past 25 years. He started his career documenting the collapse of the Soviet Union, capturing the rapid changes in the former USSR for the LA Times during the 90’s. In 2001, Yuri started to cover international news, working before from Afghanistan and then from Iraq as contract photographer for Time Magazine. Since the beginning of 2011, Yuri has been documenting the “Arab Revolutions” and their aftermaths in Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia and specially Egypt and Libya. Yuri has received numerous honors for his photography, including several World Press Photo Awards, the OPC’s Oliver Rebbot Award, and the ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism, the Frontline Club Award, the Visa d’or News and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados, and he was named 2011 Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition. In 2015, Yuri covered the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the migrant crisis in Europe.
Sebastian Liste is a documentary photographer and sociologist devoted to document the profound cultural changes and contemporary issues in Latin America and the Mediterranean area. In 2010, while getting his Masters degree in Documentary Photography in Barcelona, he won the Ian Parry Scholarship for his project “Urban Quilombo” and was named young editorial photographer of the year at the Lucie Awards. In 2011 Sebastián was selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. In 2012 was announced as the Young Reporter of the Year at Visa pour l’Image festival. He was the recipient of the Magnum EF Grant, the Getty Editorial Grant and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He also received the Fotopres grant in Spain to develop a project in Venezuela, and a World Press Photo prize in 2016 for his story ‘Citizen Journalism in Brazil’s Favelas‘. Sebastián Liste is a frequent lecturer and he is currently based between Spain and Brazil.
SELECTED PARTICIPANTS
Bart Brouwer Bram Schilling Claudia Dijkkamp Claudia Willmitzer Claudio Montesano Casillas Hester den Boer Jaasir Linger Jecan Chiu Joris van Gennip Maarten de Kok Maartje de Brockbernd Madeleine Bolle Misha Pook Sabine van Wechem
For more information contact NOOR Education via education@noorimages.com or give us a call at +31.20.6060.780
Photo from NOOR-Nikon 2015 Amsterdam Masterclass © Frank Zuidweg
nina berman in courrier international
Nina Berman's photos of protests against Trump in NYC were recently published in Courrier International
robin hammond's 'where love is illegal' in marie claire france
kadir van lohuizen in le monde
