Yuri Kozyrev featured in the Dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant, covering the hundreds of billions of rubles the Kremlin is spending to beautify Moscow. One of the most remarkable projects is the renovation of the immense sculpture garden of Jozef Stalin.
Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
We're pleased to announce our next online workshop with NOOR authors Olga Kravets and Sebastian Liste on Friday, December 18th, 2020, at 6:30 pm CET.
This workshop will discuss how to produce meaningful work under pressure, whether that's during challenging times or conflict zones. Olga and Sebastian will also talk about their experiences documenting social justice in conflict territories.
Sebastian Liste / NOOR
Shuang bao tai 双胞胎 is the Chinese word for twin. Following on from Land of Ibeji, Sanne de Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen travel to Mojiang in Yunnan for the second chapter of their project about the mythology of twinhood. The area has an exceptionally high percentage of twins, celebrated in its annual tropic of cancer twin festival.
Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde / NOOR
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.
Sanne De WIlde / NOOR
Sanne De Wilde collaborated on a project with Jana Antonissen to find out how life in jail is comparable to life during quarantine. Their work was published in the Belgian newspapers De Standaard and DeMorgen.
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.
Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR
Tanya Habjouqa photographs Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, one of Palestine's most influential philosophers for an interview published in 5 Media.
We're pleased to announce a special free online workshop with NOOR Author Andrea Bruce and Sebastian Liste on Friday, November 27th 2020.
Link for registering: https://bit.ly/35XW2RN
Do you have questions about applying for the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship? Are you having trouble applying for grants in general? Do you need funds to support or continue your personal projects?
There is a way. There is a set of skills and techniques you can learn and apply to elevate your grant proposals in order to focus on the stories you want to tell and the change you seek to make.
We believe that any independent photographer, who is willing to develop their own vision and ideas, should know how to reach the organizations that can provide the necessary funding to accomplish their projects.
NOOR´s photographers Andrea Bruce and Sebastian Liste have consistently received generous support from some of the most important organizations in our industry: the Harvard Nieman Foundation fellowship, World Press Photo Foundation, the Magnum Foundation Emergency Found, the Alexia Foundation Grant, the CatchLight Fellowship, National Geographic Explorer grant, Getty Editorial Grant, the Nikon Special project Grant and the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship.
That support has allowed them to commit to their practice as visual storytellers and develop their personal in-depth projects.
In this workshop, Andrea and Sebastian will share their expertise on successfully applying for grants.
We will take into special consideration the structure of writing a proposal and how to edit a portfolio that properly supports your project idea. We will also give you very practical tips to elevate your bio and CV and how to make a realistic budget—details that are crucial but sometimes underestimated when applying for a grant.
We also want to give you a chance to discuss specific questions and challenges you might have. We´ve set up time for a Q&A session.
Let’s be ready for the next session together.
Let us help you take your career to the next level.
Let’s produce work that matters.
© Andrea Bruce / NOOR
Alixandra Fazzina (@alixandrafazzinanoor) tells us about her series A Million Shillings – Escape from Somalia for a new series on @vice & @vicevideo. In it she recalls the harrowing details of the stories behind her photographs; from meeting the smugglers, witnessing executions, and capturing the many lives lost. She titled her work A Million Shillings because a million Somali shillings, about the equivalent of $50, is the price paid by emigrants, or tahrib, risking their lives to embark with smugglers on a perilous voyage across the Gulf of Aden in the search of a better life.
