Announcing the 2018 Nikon-Noor academy masterclasses

Nikon Europe and the NOOR Foundation are excited to announce the program of the 2018 Nikon-NOOR Academy. The Academy will launch a new series of free-of-charge masterclasses for young, aspiring and talented documentary photographers in Poland, Sweden and Belgium.

During each of the four-day trainings, 15 participants, together with three NOOR photographers will share experiences, work on portfolios, improve editing skills and learn how to develop visual stories. The Nikon-NOOR Academy 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. 

Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the masterclass 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. Below you will find more information on each masterclass.

• Teaching in Warsaw, Poland: Nina Berman, Tanya Habjouqa & Sebastian Liste 
• Teaching in Stockholm, Sweden: Yuri Kozyrev, Jon Lowenstein & Kadir van Lohuizen
• Teaching in Brussels, Belgium: Sanne De Wilde, Benedicte Kurzen & Pep Bonet

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 NOOR-Nikon Academy 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.

Each masterclass is led by a diverse and unique combination of three NOOR photographers. All experienced teachers and lecturers, NOOR photographers are actively engaged in their own documentary practices, current debates in the field and in the development of the next generation of photographic talent.

Since 2009 NOOR and Nikon have partnered on education programs encouraging and supporting young photographic talent around the world. We have built strong collaborations with an international network of young photographers, photography professionals, cultural organizations, journalism and educational institutions. NOOR-Nikon educational programs have successfully trained more than 175 students from more than 64 different countries and counting.

Below please find the Calls for Applications for the 2018 NOOR-Nikon Academy. Calls are now open for the masterclasses in Poland, Sweden & Belgium.

Call for Applications for NOOR-Nikon Poland Masterclass:

Deadline to apply is 29th January 2018.

Apply here

Call for Applications for NOOR-Nikon Sweden Masterclass:

Deadline to apply is 29th January 2018.

Apply here

Call for Applications for NOOR-Nikon Belgium Masterclass.

Deadline to apply is 29th January 2018.

Apply here

For any questions please contact education@noorimages.com.

Reactions from previous NOOR-Nikon educational programs:

“Photography is part education and part evolution of one’s talent. This was my first workshop and it was an enriching experience. I learned more in these days than probably I could have learned in a year working in the field.”

   – Bogdan Chesaru, Romania (NOOR-Nikon Masterclass, Bucharest, Romania)

“The workshop was fantastic! Meeting with NOOR photographers and very talented people from our region is a great opportunity. You should continue organizing programs for regional cooperation among young photographers. I got great tips about storytelling, editing, grants and bookmaking!”

   – Ozge Sebzeci, Turkey (NOOR-Nikon Masterclass, Istanbul, Turkey)

“The masterclass helped to draw an overall picture of my career. The experiences shared by NOOR helps to make a long-term plan.”

   – Elyor Nematov, Kyrgyzstan (NOOR-Nikon Masterclass, Almaty, Kazakhstan)

If you would like to be added to our education mailing list please email education@noorimages.comwith the subject line “Subscribe NOOR Education” with the following information:

• Your full name
• Email address
• City of residence
• Country of residence

Announcing NOOR Film

NOOR and UPFRONT are proud to announce their partnership and the creation of NOOR Film, a new innovative platform that will produce short & long feature films, series and documentaries.

Upfront founder Lucas Menget states about the new collaboration:

“NOOR photojournalists, filmmakers and authors are our new sentinels. For years, they have been working on issues like climate change, refugee crisis, identity and gender, before they became breaking news. Together, we want to tell compelling and human stories of women and men confronted by fierce social changes. Our storytelling for a wide digital distribution will be strong and innovative.”

“NOOR started 10 years ago because together NOOR authors were able to “make changes” through photography, filmmaking, creating stories that impact humanity,” says NOOR’s Managing Director Clement Saccomani. “Today, we believe that video, moving images and documentary pieces will allow us to reach a new and larger audience. UPFRONT will help us confront the dominant narrative using visual storytelling with integrity and passion. NOOR exists to inspire empathy and action”

About Upfront – Digital Stories

Upfront – digital stories is a news agency producing short and powerful films for digital platforms, as well as documentaries for broadcast TV, based in Paris, France and New York, USA.

About NOOR

NOOR is a collective uniting a select group of highly accomplished authors, filmmakers, and photojournalists documenting, investigating and witnessing our world. 

Announcing new members & nominees

NOOR is proud to announce important outcomes of the NOOR Annual General Meeting that took place in Amsterdam, in September 20-24th, 2017.

NEW NOMINEES

NOOR welcomes three new nominees: Arko Datto (India), Leonard Pongo (Belgium / Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Sanne De Wilde (Belgium).

About the three nominees, NOOR’s Managing Director Clement Saccomani shares: ”Having Sanne, Arko and Leonard join NOOR helps us to continue to confront dominant narratives using visual storytelling with integrity and passion. We exist to inspire empathy and action. These storytellers share with us this mission and will play an important role in helping us to achieve it.” 

Sanne de Wilde states: “Call me naive, but I believe in the power of the photo-family. Connecting people who share ideals, differ in opinion, reach for the same goals, exchange ideas; eager to learn, teach, share. I see NOOR as a colorful bunch of people where I could add another touch of color to.”

NEW MEMBERS

NOOR photographers Tanya Habjouqa and Robin Hammond were voted in unanimously as full members joining the agency as shareholders. 

Tanya Habjouqa says: ”I have found my transnational tribal storytelling family. The character, eccentricity, passion, intellect, curiosity, and integrity of this group inspires one to push further and further. To aspire to more. We find ourselves stronger together.”

Robin Hammond states: “A year ago I had the honor of being accepted as a NOOR nominee. Since then, by working with the NOOR office, I’ve seen my work reach more people, and have a greater impact. The members of the agency have been a constant source of inspiration and support. I’m really grateful now, at the Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam, to have been accepted as a full member into the NOOR family.”

NOOR & Nikon at Prix Bayeux Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre

NOOR & Nikon will be present this year for the 24th edition of the Prix Bayeux Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre festival. Nikon has graciously funded an exhibition and a workshop. 

Graciously supported by NIKON and Prix Bayeux Calvados for War Correspondants

For the 2017 edition of the Prix Bayeux-Calvados for War Correspondants, which also marks the 100th anniversary of Nikon and the 10th anniversary of NOOR, Nikon wished to give NOOR the means to produce an exhibition on the forgotten conflicts and conflicts of tomorrow which will be presented at the Hotel du Doyen, in Bayeux.

Beyond the fruitful collaboration between Nikon France and NOOR Agency and Foudantion, these initiatives underscore our mutual commitment to the professional photography world as a whole.

NOOR – NIKON Visual Journalism Workshop

October 3rd to 7th, 2017

Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project with Pep Bonet & Kadir van Lohuizen

During the five-day program, NOOR photographers and agency co-founders Pep Bonet (ES) and Kadir van Lohuizen (NL) will share key insights, experiences and tools to help workshop participants develop their own long term transmedia projects.

The program includes one on one portfolio reviews with each tutor, group editing sessions, along with presentations and discussions covering everything from transmedia project conception, budget development and production, to collaboration and dissemination. Tuition and meals during the workshop are free through the generous support of Nikon France.

NOOR in Paraty em Foco, Brazil | September 13-17, 2017

During this year's edition of Paraty em Foco, NOOR will be present to a series of events. Find below all the activities NOOR will be present to.

#Resist by NOOR

Graciously supported by Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

September 13-17, 2017

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.

#Resist by NOOR is an exhibition of 13 images from across the globe, chosen by each photographer as an inspiration and reminder that resistance takes many forms, each essential and life affirming.

More info here.

Workshop with Sebastián Liste

Developing your long-term photographic project

September 15th, 2017

NOOR Photographer Sebastian Liste will be leading a workshop around long term projects. Photographers who are dedicated to long-term projects or interested in documentary photography will be able to bring up their questions to Sebastian Liste.

Find the full program and all relevant information about this workshop on the festivals website.

More info here.

NOOR Talk: Sebastian Liste

September 16th, 2017, 3pm-5pm

An Intimate Pandemic

NOOR Photographer Sebastian Liste will be presenting and talking about his long-term project An Intimate Pandemic exploring urban violence in Latin America. He will share his experience of photographing in dangerous and violent areas of the world.

The talk will be livestremed on Paraty em Foco’s and NOOR’s social media channels.

More info here.

Announcing participants of Nikon-NOOR France visual journalism workshop in Bayeux

NOOR Images and the Nikon France Pro Department are pleased to announce the 12 participants selected for the 2017 NOOR-Nikon visual journalism workshop – Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project with Pep Bonet and Kadir van Lohuizen.

The participants, six male photographers and six female photographers from 10 different countries, were selected from over 60 applicants. We thank all the candidates for sending us their applications and portfolios. The selected twelve are:

Svetlana Bulatova

Rebecca Conway

Farbod Firoozi

Julie Franchet

Nick Jaussi

Marjan Kochak Yazdi

Daniela Koenig

Seif Kousmate

Emilienne Malfatto

Milutin Markovic

Vilhelm Stockstad

Nicola Zolin

The workshop will take place in Bayeux, France, from 3 to 7 October, coinciding with the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados prize meeting and festival for war correspondents. Organized since 1994, this an annual event that pays tribute to and brings together journalists working in precarious conditions whom enable the public free access to information.

During the five-day program, NOOR photographers and agency co-founders Pep Bonet (ES) and Kadir van Lohuizen (NL) will share key insights, experiences and tools to help workshop participants develop their own long term transmedia projects. The program includes one on one portfolio reviews with each tutor, group editing sessions, along with presentations and discussions covering everything from transmedia project conception, budget development and production, to collaboration and dissemination. Tuition and meals during the workshop are free through the generous support of Nikon France.

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NOOR in Amsterdam | September 2017

NOOR Annual General Meeting will take place this year in Amsterdam between September 21-24th. It will bring together the agency’s international photographers & staff to discuss photography, visual storytelling, ideas, company business and vote on potential new members. In the frame of the agency’s 10th anniversary and Unseen Photo Fair, NOOR will be organising a series of events around the city.

Maria Turchenkova and Stanley Greene’s project Roads to Revolution in Le Monde

In Le Monde, Maria Turchenkova and Stanley Greene's project on the Roads to Revolutions.

Open call for applications: tuition-free workshop with Pep Bonet & Kadir van Lohuizen

Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project: a Workshop with Pep Bonet & Kadir van Lohuizen (NOOR)

With 2017 marking the 10th anniversary of NOOR Images and the 100th anniversary of Nikon, together we celebrate our continued collaboration. On this occasion NOOR Images and the Nikon France Pro Department invite visual journalists and documentary photographers to apply for the 2017 NOOR-Nikon visual journalism workshop – Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project with Pep Bonet and Kadir van Lohuizen.

The workshop will take place in Bayeux, France, from 3 to 7 October, coinciding with the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados prize meeting and festival for war correspondents. Organized since 1994, this is an annual event that pays tribute to and brings together journalists working in precarious conditions whom enable the public free access to information. The workshop program will make this most of this context, integrating special events from the program and connecting workshop participants to the inspirational and important network of attendees.

The workshop is open to young and aspiring visual journalists, including those intending to work in conflict zones and potentially dangerous environments, as well as those interested in developing a transmedia practice.

During the five-day program (see below), NOOR photographers and agency co-founders Pep Bonet (ES) and Kadir van Lohuizen (NL) will share key insights, experiences and tools to help workshop participants develop their own long term transmedia projects. The program includes one on one portfolio reviews with each tutor, group editing sessions, along with presentations and discussions covering everything from transmedia project conception, budget development and production, to collaboration and dissemination.

Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the workshop with a body of work they are currently editing, working on and/or thinking about how to share with audiences. The workshop will be an intense, intimate, creative, productive and inspiring experience. Participants will come away from it not only with new knowledge, ideas, tools and motivation, but also with a new network of colleagues – all of which will push their projects and practice further.

Where: Place Gauquelin-Despallieres, Bayeux, France during the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados prize meeting and festival for war correspondents.

Who: 7-12 participants

KEY DATES

Workshop: 3-7 October 2017

Deadline to Apply: 20 August 2017, 11:59pm (CET)

Notification of Selection: 5 September 2017

THE TUTORS

Pep Bonet (Spain, 1974) 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 known 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, the Horbach Award in 2015, and has won three World Press Photo Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2013. Pep frequently lectures on photography, multimedia and film, and lives in Mallorca, Spain.

Kadir van Lohuizen (The Netherlands, 1963) 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.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM OUTLINE

3 October, Tuesday: Day One

Afternoon

• Welcome from Nikon France & NOOR

• Outline workshop program

• Participant introductions

• Visit festival exhibitions together

• Pep Bonet presentation & discussion: going from stills to film & mixing medias

Evening

• Welcome dinner

4 October, Wednesday: Day Two

Morning

• Kadir van Lohuizen presentation & discussion: pre-production and planning a transmedia project

• One on one portfolio reviews – each participant will have reviews from both Kadir & Pep

Afternoon

• Continue one on one portfolio reviews

• Pep presentation & discussion: production & technique on a budget

5 October, Thursday: Day Three

Morning

• Pep & Kadir presentation & discussion on their collaborative transmedia project on human trafficking, gaining access and interviews.

• Editing participants’ work in small groups

Afternoon

• Continue small groups editing session

• Kadir presentation on project proposals & pitching

• Participants work on final presentations with tutors available for feedback

6 October, Friday: Day Four

Morning

• Guest speaker journalist Lucas Menget (RadioFrance, Canal+, FRANCE 24 & more) will present & discuss his experience, projects and work with NOOR and Upfront

• Participants final projected presentations

Afternoon

• Recap on final presentations

• Kadir and Pep presentation & discussion: covering conflict and ethics.

• Kadir and Pep final presentation & discussion: dissemination and reaching your audience: editorial, film, exhibition, digital platforms

Evening

• Nikon party

7 October, Saturday: Day Five

Morning

• Visit to observe Prix Bayeux-Calvados jury in action

Afternoon

• Book signing with Pep

Evening

• Prix Bayeux-Calvados Awards ceremony at Chapitteau, followed by the Awards Dinner

PRACTICALITIES

Tuition and meals during the workshop are free through the generous support of Nikon France. There cost of the accommodation package is EUR 350. Nikon France and Prix Bayeux-Calvados offer workshop participants access to all professional events happening around the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados, including the Nikon party on Friday 6 October and the awards ceremony on 7 October.

Please note – all participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and expenses to and from Bayeux. Possession of a passport and travel insurance is required to apply.

Please do bring a laptop and hard drive to show, share and store your work. It’s not necessary to bring your recording equipment, but you are welcome to do so. Nikon will provide some equipment during the workshop for demonstration and testing.

REQUIREMENTS

• Basic experience (two to three years) in documentary photography or photojournalism in professional or educational setting

• English fluency (the workshop will be conducted in English)

• Good technical understanding of your camera equipment

TO APPLY

Complete the Application Form, including your motivation (200 words maximum), relevant work experience (200 words maximum), relevant education & trainings experience (200 words maximum) & a description of the project you are currently working on (200 words maximum).

The form will also prompt you to submit an image portfolio which must be submitted as a PDF and include the following:

> No more than 40 images in total including:

   > At least one photo story (minimum 8 images, maximum 20 images)

   > No more than 8 single images (images which are not part of a photo story)

> All images should be accompanied by a short caption including the date the photo was made

> For any photo story, please include a title and short introduction

There are also fields for applicants to include up to three Vimeo links for video

The application deadline is 11:59pm CET, Sunday, 20 August 2017

Organized with the generous support of Nikon France.

Announcing participants of kazakhstan documentary photography training program

Together with Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, NOOR Education is happy to announce the ten participants selected for the 2017 Kazakhstan NOOR-SFK Documentary Photography Training Program.

The program has been developed to encourage and support photojournalists, documentary photographers and visual storytellers from Kazakhstan. Over the course of the program, participants will develop a social-interest photo story under the guidance of Tanya Habjouqa, Sebastian Liste and NOOR Alumni – Timur Karpov, Elyor Nematov and Daria Tuminas. The training will include online sessions and field work during August and September to prepare participants for the intensive four-day workshop taking place in Almaty from 12 to 15 October 2017.

The participants, six male photographers and four female photographers, were selected from over 50 applicants from Kazakhstan. We thank all candidates for sending over their applications and all the time you have spent on your portfolio. The selected ten are: 

Oleg Bitner

Timur Epov

Maria Grinkevich

Bahtiyar Kelis

Viktoriya Li

Bek Maratov

Sanat Ongarbaev

Vladimir Tretyakov

Lyailya Turlybekova

The training program is free-of-cost for participants and it is made possible through the generous support of Soros Foundation Kazakhstan and Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project, with additional support from Nikon Kazakhstan and through partnership with MediaNet.