Inspired by Benedicte Kurzen’s powerful photos of the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Jonathan Littell realizes "Wrong Elements”, a documentary on the massacres committed by the group in the 80s in Uganda. Photos by Benedicte Kurzen in Polka Magazine.
ROBIN HAMMOND - WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2017
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© Robin Hammond / NOOR
We are pleased to announce that NOOR photographer Robin Hammond has been awarded 2nd prize in the People category of World Press Photo 2017 for his portrait of 41 year old Hellen Alfred from Juba in South Sudan. "I am delighted to receive this award. For six years I’ve been working to highlight the challenges faced by people living with mental health problems. People like the South Sudanese woman in this picture, Hellen. No other health issue impacts more people, yet is so neglected. Stigma eliminates conversation, and the very existence of people living with mental health problems. It is my hope that the thousands around the world who will now see her face will ask - who is this woman? What is her story? That is the moment mental health stops being about an abstract and ignored issue and starts being about individuals who deserve to be seen, and need to be heard."
Hellen's portrait is part of Robin Hammond's In my world, a project which seeks to humanize a neglected and abstract issue by allowing people living with mental health problems to be seen and heard and, as a result, have mental health become the global health priority it deserves to be.
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NOOR's Managing Director Clement Saccomani on the WPP award:
"Congratulations to Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici for the World Press Photo of the Year and also to all winners of 2017 World Press Photo Contest!
NOOR Photographer Robin Hammond won second prize on People - Singles category for his beautiful portrait of 41 year old Hellen Alfred from Juba in South Sudan. Robin Hammond and his NOOR’s colleagues are confronting the dominant narrative using visual storytelling with integrity and passion. As a group, they exist to inspire empathy and action. Congratulations Robin!" |
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ABOUT IN MY WORLD
To document the mental health impact of conflicts and disasters in sub-Saharan Africa, photographer and human rights campaigner Robin Hammond travelled to eleven countries. He spent time with the displaced in refugee camps, former child soldiers in slums and saw the impact of corruption on facilities for the mentally ill. The resulting work went on to become the book: ‘Condemned: mental health in African countries in crisis,’ and was published in magazines globally. The work has been exhibited on every continent, and went on to win some of photojournalism’s most prestigious awards.
Robin spent five years working on his mental health project. In the course of that work he came to recognize that a lack of space for the voices of people living with mental health problems is a major impediment to a world where mental health is recognized as a global health priority. In addition, stigma and silence form twin barriers in the path towards a society where people living with mental health problems can be seen, and valued, as equal members of the communities in which they live.
With In my world, Hammond and his not for profit organization, Witness Change, are working to contribute towards breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health and to the amplification of these marginalized voices.
Robin is working with a group of partners including Handicap International, other not for profit organizations, and a major educational institution to share stories of people living with mental health problems and document the situations in which they must live.
In my world, will be live from June 2017.
©Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR
We are excited to announce the 15 participants selected for the Nikon-NOOR Academy Workshop, which will take place in Manchester between 30 March and 2 April 2017. We would like sincerely thank all the people who sent forward their applications and congratulate the photographers who will participate in the workshop with Tanya Habjouqa, Robin Hammond & Sebastian Liste
Carlotta Cardana David Shaw Ekaterina Anchevskaya Giorgia Tobiolo Jacob King José Luis Fajardo Mathieu Willcocks Matteo Congregalli Maurizio Martorana Sandra Franco Shaista Chishty Tory Ho
Valeria Luongo
We are excited to meet & work together in Manchester!
©Pep Bonet / NOOR
We are pleased to announce the 15 participants selected for the Nikon-NOOR Academy Workshop, which will take place in Paris between 20 to 23 March 2017. We would like sincerely thank all the people who sent forward their applications and congratulate the photographers who will participate in the workshop with Pep Bonet, Robin Hammond & Benedicte Kurzen.
Camilo Leon-Quijano Charlotte Gonzalez Chloe Sharrock Estelle Car Etienne Maury
Lucie Mach
Mathias Benguigui Maude Girard Yulia Grigoryants
We are excited to meet & work together in Paris!
Moving Visual Stories Forward
On the occasion of NOOR's 10th Anniversary year, we are proud to announce that NOOR and Docking Station are joining forces. Docking Station is an exciting new Amsterdam visual storytellers’ residency - where residents, or Dockers, benefit from a one-month residency and collaboration in the middle of photography hotspot Amsterdam.
NOOR will exchange knowledge and expertise with the Dockers staying in the Docking Station Hub. For the Dockers, but also for other photographers, NOOR offers an inspiring educational program with workshops, trainings, masterclasses and lectures.
NOOR’s Education Director, Asmara Pelupessy, is now a Docking Ambassador. Through NOOR Education programs, with collaboration from NOOR photographers and team, Asmara scouts new talented international photographers for Docking Station. She focuses, just like all of our Docking Ambassadors, on socially relevant stories made by involved photographers.
Our aim with this collaboration is to create new possibilities for national and international photographers to broaden their network, expand their audience and help visual stories to grow.
More about Docking Station:
http://www.dockingstation.today/
© Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
We are delighted to announce the 15 participants selected for the Nikon-NOOR Academy Workshop, which will take place in Berlin between 7 to 10 March 2017. We would like sincerely thank all the people who sent forward their applications and congratulate the photographers who will participate in the workshop with Yuri Kozyrev, Bénédicte Kurzen and Kadir van Lohuizen
Agata Szymanska-Medina 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
We are excited to meet & work together in Berlin!
As we celebrate our 10th anniversary and reaffirm our principles as independent journalists, photographers, filmmakers and artists, NOOR stands with resisters around the world fighting authoritarianism and racism in all forms.
We have dedicated our careers to witnessing and contextualizing the most obscene manifestations of state and corporate power from settler colonialism in Palestine to US imperialism in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the forced migration of millions of Syrians, to the decimation of the black community in Chicago. In all parts of the world, we see the plunder of land and resources to serve a privileged few at the expense of us all.
We have also witnessed profound and spectacular acts of community organizing, righteous opposition and personal bravery. Our images have been our form of resistance. We create them with a shared respect for the courage and humanity of those fighting to live free and fair lives everywhere.
NOOR was started ten years ago so we could take control over our work and become a more radical voice, free of market constraints. We believe that by leveraging the power of the group we can better amplify crucial issues such as our Consequences project, one of the first comprehensive photojournalistic documentations of climate change and its ramifications.
As the turn toward authoritarianism in the United States and in Europe poses a threat to human rights everywhere, and journalists in particular, NOOR will also resist.
We do this as journalists with an aim to hold power accountable and as individuals with histories and perspectives; our families were refugees, our loved ones, and some of our members, have been imprisoned for their political beliefs. We value dissent.
And so on Monday February 6 at 1 pm CET we will share #Resist, a selection of images from across the globe, chosen by each photographer as an inspiration and reminder that resistance takes many forms, each essential and life affirming.
We will offer this series, our very first group print sale, to those who want to support our continued efforts.
We will donate a share of profits from this sale to the Center for Constitutional Rights, a USA based organization whose mission statement is found on their website.
Photograph of the daily life in Cuba
© Sebastian Liste / NOOR
We are pleased to announce the 15 participants selected for the Nikon-NOOR Academy Workshop, which will take place in Amsterdam between 28 February and 3 March 2017. We would like sincerely thank all the people who sent forward their applications and congratulate the photographers who will participate in the workshop with Pep Bonet, Sebastian Liste & Yuri Kozyrev:
We are excited to meet & work together in Amsterdam!
