The Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship
About the Fellowship & Prize | Applications Process
Stanley Greene went where he wasn’t supposed to go. As a Black American man, he defied these expectations and photographed places, people, and stories he was not expected to; the early days of the West Coast punk scene, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 1993 October Coup in Russia, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Ukraine, and the conflict that defined his career, the first Chechen war.
It was a path he never would have taken, because he never could have imagined it.
Stanley’s career began in earnest when he left the United States, and for many years, his work was published mostly by European outlets.
If there was anything that Stanley hoped to see, it was a diversification of the perspectives. But realizing that vision would require not only a diversification of who gets to tell the story; but a diversification of who gets jobs to tell the story.
Russia, 2017, Selfportrait, from his unfinished project, “Roads of Revolution”
About The Fellowship & Prize
Iran, 1994, A woman and child playfully wade through the water of the running waves along the shores of the Caspian Sea in Bandar-Anzali, 1994. The Caspian coastline is one of the most popular destinations for Iran's domestic tourists.
As part of the second edition, the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize and Fellowship continues to follow the steps of Stanley’s life. It was the fall of the Berlin wall that inspired him to become a photojournalist, and by consequence to wonder behind what used to be the Iron Curtain.
This chapter of the fellowship prize will focus on supporting the work and professional aspirations of visual storytellers who are from and based in the following countries:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
We highly encourage photographers and visual storytellers working on projects following the steps of Stanley Greene in their work to apply. We are looking for candidates documenting forgotten topics, and for authors who are not afraid, just like Stanley, to be vocal about human rights, and transcend the rules of traditional storytelling, mindful of the ethics of their storytelling.
Stanley’s perspective was informed by his travels - he left home and went outside his comfort-zone in order to highlight the injustices of the world. But we will equally consider people who work in their own communities and engage with their surroundings to fight political oppression and strive for social impact.
The one-year fellowship under the stewardship of Stanley’s colleagues at NOOR includes training, grant- writing support, and networking with media industry leaders to open pathways for the fellow’s work to reach wider international audiences.
NOOR will promote and distribute the fellow’s body of work around the world during that year.
The fellow will receive a €10,000 prize fellowship plus travel expenses for field reporting or research up to €2500 and a Nikon mirrorless camera and one lens. The application portal will open on June 5th and close on August 6th.
Applicants should be early-career visual storytellers, in the first ten years of their professional career, who show great promise and an unquenchable desire to practice photojournalism with a purpose.
The fellow will be assigned a mentor from NOOR and will be expected to check in regularly with their mentor, as well as engage with industry leaders in meetings arranged by NOOR.
Application process
Early-career photographers (within the first 10 years of their career) who fit the above criteria in terms of their geographical location and their work are welcome to submit applications.
Access to the application portal will open on June 5th, 2021.
Candidates are asked to provide a current website, Instagram feed or 20 images to show their work and style. They are also asked for a description of 2000 characters followed by an Artist’s Statement of 1500 characters, describing why they are interested in being a photographer, what topics they are drawn to, and what their dream assignment would be.
The shortlist and laureate of the Stanley Greene Fellowship will be announced in September 2021.
For more information or questions regarding the Stanley Greene Legacy Prize & Fellowship, please contact us at fellowship@noorimages.com.
USA, California, San Francisco, Coffee and cigarettes with my friend, the photographer, Colette Valli, in 1979 in North Beach.
Jury announcement
Tanya Lokshina
Tanya Lokshina, associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division, is based in Moscow. Having joined Human Rights Watch in January 2008, Lokshina authored several major reports on egregious abuses in Russia’s North Caucasus region and co-authored a report on violations of international humanitarian law during the 2008 armed conflict in Georgia. Her recent publications include a range of reports, news releases and dispatches on Russia’s vicious crackdown on critics of the government, escalation of public protests and abuses against peaceful protesters in Belarus, and violations of international humanitarian law during the armed conflicts in eastern Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh. Lokshina is a recipient of the 2006 Andrei Sakharov Award, “Journalism as an Act of Conscience.” Her articles have been featured in prominent Russian and foreign media outlets, including CNN, the Guardian, Le Monde, the Moscow Times, Novaya Gazeta, and the Washington Post. Lokshina’s books include Chechnya Inside Out and Imposition of a Fake Political Settlement in the Northern Caucasus. In 2014, her article on the abusive virtue campaign against women in Chechnya was published in Chechnya at War and Beyond (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series).
Thomas Dworzak
Born in 1972 in Germany, Dworzak is a photographer and member of the photo agency The New Yorker. Since the early 1990s, he started photographing mainly in the Caucasus and has since been documenting conflicts in the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa. He has regularly been contributing to The New Yorker, Time Magazine, National Geographic and many others and has published several books. Besides his personal stories, Thomas Dworzak continues to cover international stories, such as the DMZ in Korea, Cuba, Colombia, China, Liberia, the Arab Spring in Egypt, the war in Libya and most recently the November 2015 Paris terror attacks, Pokemon Go! and the 2016 US and run-up to the 2017 French Presidential elections.
Marie Sumalla
Marie Sumalla is deputy head of Le Monde photo department where she has been working since 2011. She has previously worked for Magnum Photos and 2e Bureau press office in Paris.She works on the daily coverage of world news in collaboration with a network of independent photographers and Le Monde’s reporters. From October 2016 to July 2017 she coordinated coverage of the battle of Mosul with the photographer Laurent Van Der Stock. The work was awarded at World Press Photo and won a Visa d’Or news at Visa pour l’Image.In 2017, Marie created her own artist management company Tipping Expected to support long-term projects by photographers, film directors, artists and writers. Tipping Expected produced the exhibition Fifty Fifty by Samuel Gratacap, presented at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2017 and Alep Machine, an adaptation of the book “Le fil brisé de nos vies” by Cécile Hennion that put Syrian artists in artistic dialogue with the novel.
Andrei Polikanov
Visual Director of Takie Dela online media, Russia Andrei Polikanov was born in 1961 in Moscow. He graduated from the Military Institute of Foreign Languages in 1987 and over the next six years served on several missions in Angola as a commissioned officer. In the early 1990s, Polikanov worked as a fixer and stringer with Anthony Suau, Christopher Morris, Alexandra Boulat, Stanley Greene and other prominent international photojournalists, producing stories for such major world publications as Time, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Focus, Spiegel and Paris Match on the events in the former USSR territories (including conflicts in Nagorno Karabakh, Chechnya, Transnistria, Abkhazia and Tajikistan). Polikanov is a member of various international and national photo contest juries: World Press Photo, Visa d’Or in Perpignan, Istanbul Photo, Encontros da Imagem, Press Photo Finland, Estação Imagem, Interfoto Russia, Photolux Contest among many others. He is a member of the Joop Swart Masterclass independent selection committee, nominator for World Press Photo’s educational programme for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), nominator for Prince Claus Grant, Leica Oscar Barnack Grant and many others. Since 2003 he has taught numerous workshops on photojournalism, both in Russia and worldwide. These include: mentor at the Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project Grantee Workshop, mentor at the World Press Photo educational project in the Caucasus and in Angola, consultant at The International Center for Journalists. Exhibition curator at Moving Walls, Encontros da Imagem, Cortona on the Move, Estação Imagem, Center of documentary photography FOTODOC, ЦЭХ Art Gallery among others. Winner and laureate of more than 80 International Awards in photo editing
Nestan Nijaradze
Born in 1971 in Tbilisi, Georgia. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism at the Tbilisi State University (Georgia) and obtaining the Masters degree of Cinema and Audio-Visual Studies at Paris University (Paris VII) in 2003, Nestan Nijaradze returns to Tbilisi and starts working as a photo curator contributing to the promotion of the rich traditions of Georgian visual culture on local, regional and international levels. Nestan Nijaradze is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum - first Georgian institution dedicated to the contemporary image in its different forms – photography, video, new media that has been founded in 2017 and inaugurated in September 2019. She is also co- founder and Artistic Director of Tbilisi Photo Festival – the first international photography festival in Georgia created in partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2010. In 2006-2021 Nestan Nijaradze has curated numerous exhibitions promoting the traditions of Georgian visual culture in Georgia and internationally (including the collections of 19th century photography). In 2007 – 2009 Nestan Nijaradze has worked as an Editor in Chief of Photo Magazine – the first photo magazine published in Georgia, in Georgian that she co-founded in 2006.
Jean-François Camp
Born in Perpignan, France in 1946, J.-F. Camp studied from 1969 to 1971 at the School of Visual Arts in New York City USA. In1972, he created and directed until 1975 the Photographic Service of the Ministry of Environment in Tehran, Iran. In 1975, he founded DIATEC the first professional photo laboratory in Tehran. As a photographer, he also covered the Islamic Revolution in the country. Founder and manager of the professional photo laboratory Central Dupon before selling it in 2018 to the RC Concept group, he expanded the company to different cities (Bordeaux, paris, Toulouse,...). Early 2000, he created the communication agency DIVA and the photogravure company MANDARINE with Karine Boduin. In 2009, he initiated the prize "A photographer for Eurazeo" and chaired its jury. A few years later, he founded and directed the International Center of Photojournalism (CIP) in Perpignan. In 2015, he took the Vice Presidency of the association Visa Pour l'Image. In 2016, he originated the company DUREV Events, a consulting and exhibition production company which he still heads. Since early 2021, he is the artistic director of the exhibition "Lumières de Temps" at the Sauve Majeure Abbey of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux.
Raisa Borshchigova
Raisa Borshchigova, a Chechen born and raised human rights activist, is hugely passionate, dedicated, and committed to working towards women’s safety, security, empowerment, and liberation from violence, persecution, and harm. She is currently based in New York and works as Senior Program Officer at Urgent Action Fund. Prior to joining UAF, Raisa worked for the North Caucasus’s largest civil society project, the Young Women’s Development Group, providing education to teenage girls. In 2016, she was awarded the Galina Starovoitova Fellowship at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Washington, DC, where she took residence. There, she began to synthesize years of work on women’s and girl’s rights as she embarked on transforming her first-hand experiences into academic research.Raisa's teenage years coincided with two devastating wars that hit the Chechen region in 1994 and 1999. She studied French language and literature at the Chechen State University. As a student, she helped coordinate foreign journalists’ news coverage throughout Chechnya. In 2009, Raisa obtained her Master’s degree in Journalism from the Centre de Formation des Journalistes ( Center for Journalism Studies) in Paris, France. In 2010 Raisa campaigned to stop attacks on women who were shot with rubber bullets and paintball guns by local armed men in Grozny, Chechnya’s capital, for not wearing headscarves, falling victim to such attacks herself. During this time, she also wrote articles about women’s rights in the North Caucasus for the publication Open Democracy, a UK-based online media outlet.
Frank Zuidweg
Frank Zuidweg spent most of his professional life serving and supporting imaging professionals all over the world.
Responsible for Nikon Professional Services at Nikon Europe (Amsterdam). Dedicated to enabling photographers and videographers to do their jobs the best way possible. Honored to work as long-time partner with the NOOR members.