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08 May 12 By  NOOR Agency

the e-waste trail by stanley greene | work in progress

Did you ever ask yourself where your well-worn electronic devices end up as they become obsolete, out of order or simply break down? Computers, cell phones, digital...more


30 Mar 12 By  NOOR Foundation

our last day of masterclass

South African photographer and friend Guy Tillim welcomes us this morning at the Michael Stevenson gallery (click), an art space in Cape Town’s Woodstock suburb.He will...more


29 Mar 12 By  NOOR Foundation

andrea bruce's work, multimedia and ethics

Here we all are, as portrayed by Wikus de Wet. We start the day with Andrea’s presentation; she tells us how she got into photography at the end of her university...more


28 Mar 12 By  NOOR Foundation

a day full of presentations

After some final tweaks, the day starts with the different groups showing their Daily Life assignments in slideshow presentations. It’s great to see how all participants...more


27 Mar 12 By  NOOR Foundation

portfolios and editing; day two

The day started with rounding up the portfolio reviews where we left it yesterday. After 15 one-on-one reviews, what can be said in more general terms?more


26 Mar 12 By  NOOR Foundation

cape town masterclass takes off

This morning we gathered at the Cape Town School of Photography, downtown Cape Town, ready to start the NOOR-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography 2012.more


12 Mar 12 By  NOOR Foundation

meet the participants of the cape town masterclass

We are pleased to announce the participants of the annual NOOR-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary Photography that will take place from 26 to 30 March 2012 in Cape Town,...more


09 Mar 12 By  NOOR Agency

the end: on day 359 of his travels kadir reached north alaska

Kadir van Lohuizen and his Via PanAm project have reached their final destination: the town of Deadhorse in Alaska. more


16 Feb 12 By  NOOR Agency

photographer of the year

Yuri Kozyrev has been named the "2011 Agency/Freelance Photographer of the Year" at the 69th annual Pictures of the Year International competition.more


15 Feb 12 By  NOOR Foundation

kadir van lohuizen presents via panam

On his travels from Chile to Alaska, Kadir van Lohuizen has now reached Canada.more


14 Feb 12 By  NOOR Foundation

south africa workshop: NOOR tutor team announced 

We are pleased to announce that Andrea Bruce, Kadir van Lohuizen and Francesco Zizola will provide the training at the upcoming NOOR-Nikon Masterclass in Documentary...more


02 Feb 12 By  NOOR Agency

giancarlo ceraudo shortlisted for the sony world photography award

Giancarlo Ceraudo has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards in the Travel section for his series in Patagonia called "Cruz del Sur". more


01 Feb 12 By  NOOR Foundation

masterclass in documentary photography

Our 2012 program takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, from 26 March through to 30 March.more


30 Jan 12 By  NOOR Agency

the flowers of afghanistan: stories of afghan children seeking refuge in europe

A photographic investigation by Alixandra Fazzina into the causes and effects of an increasing number of Afghan minors making the hazardous overland journey to apply for...more


25 Jan 12 By  NOOR Agency

afghanistan: surviving the choices of war

What do we know about contemporary Afghanistan and its people?more


13 Jan 12 By  NOOR Agency

book launch: the 99% and occupy wall street

NOOR photographer Nina Berman is curating a slideshow with work from the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement to be screened at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New...more


12 Jan 12 By  NOOR Foundation

visual storytelling in an open society

A six-month training opportunity for documentary photographers and photojournalists in Egypt.more


27 Dec 11 By  NOOR Agency

unicef photo of the year

Jan Grarup received an honorable mention at the UNICEF photo of the year award for his "The Situation Seems Hopeless" image.more


19 Dec 11 By  NOOR Agency

eight years of war in iraq

In March 2003, the United States led a controversial attack on Iraq with the aim of toppling the dictator in power at that time, Saddam Hussein.NOOR's Yuri Kozyrev,...more


18 Dec 11 By  NOOR Agency

via panam last stage

With Kadir van Lohuizen arriving in California on "International Migrants Day" the last stage of Via Panam begins.more


12 Dec 11 By  NOOR Agency

tyranny has a witness

American street artist Shepard Fairey seems to have the flair to detect important political shifts. In 2008, with his HOPE poster of then presidential candidate Barack...more


02 Dec 11 By  NOOR Foundation

black passport at foam museum amsterdam

Foam - Photography Museum Amsterdam - presents Black Passport, an exhibition by and about the American photographer Stanley Greene (New York, 1949). The exhibition...more


25 Nov 11 By  NOOR Foundation

climate change: consequences and solutions

Two years ago, NOOR started reporting on the devastating effects of climate change around the globe. As one, the group of photographers produced a first series of...more


15 Nov 11 By  NOOR Agency

"entre chien et loup", a gallery show by stanley greene

Images from Lebanon, Iraq, United States and much more.more


01 Nov 11 By  NOOR Foundation

solutions by noor in rome

The second part of our climate change project will open coming Friday 4 November at 19h. in Rome.more


27 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency

andrea bruce's fixer receives grant

The Aftermath Project: War is Only Half the Story announced the winners of the grant dedicated to a conflict photographer and a fixer/translator.The special $5,000...more


18 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency

complete edition of l'europeo magazine dedicated to consequences by noor

L’Europeo's entire October issue is dedicated to the first chapter of NOOR’s multi-year climate change project: Consequences by NOOR:...more


11 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency

the language of photography: workshop by pep bonet

Pep Bonet will host a workshop at 10b gallery in Rome, Italy, entitled "The Language of Photography".Saturday 5 November 2011, 10.30 am – 6.30 pmSunday 6...more


10 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency

yuri kozyrev's awards accepted by stanley greene

When Aurélie Viel, in charge of the organization of the "Prix Bayeux-Calvados des correspondants de guerre" called Yuri Kozyrev last Saturday to tell him he...more


08 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency

yuri kozyrev wins photo trophy and public prize at prix bayeux-calvados

Yuri Kozyrev wins both the "Photo Trophy" and the "Public Prize" for his "Dépęches de Libye", a report from Libya photographed in February...more


05 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency and Foundation

giancarlo ceraudo joins noor

NOOR is delighted to announce the arrival of new member photographer Giancarlo Ceraudo. Giancarlo joined NOOR foundation and photo agency per 1 October 2011. Giancarlo...more


05 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency and Foundation

andrea bruce joins noor

NOOR is delighted to announce the arrival of new member photographer Andrea Bruce. Andrea joined NOOR foundation and photo agency per 1 October 2011.Through documentary...more


03 Oct 11 By  NOOR Agency

occupy wall street by nina berman

Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing demonstration in lower Manhattan against corporate influence and income inequality. Inspired by the Arab Spring Movement, in mid...more


15 Sep 11 By  NOOR Agency

alixandra fazzina: reporting from conflict zones

Alixandra Fazzina and Mort Rosenblum were the keynote speakers at the Internationales Literaturfestivales in Berlin, Germany on 11 September. Observations,...more


06 Sep 11 By  NOOR Foundation

noor turns four

Today, NOOR celebrates it's 4th anniversary.This recent group portrait was made on the outskirts of the village of Midden-Beemster, the Netherlands, where NOOR held its...more


05 Sep 11 By  NOOR Foundation

nina berman exhibiting at nine venues this month

Nina Berman is exhibiting at nine venues in September in group and solo exhibitions with her still and video work from Homeland and Marine Wedding.OPENING IN THE NEXT...more


03 Sep 11 By  NOOR agency

yuri kozyrev wins the visa d'or news

Yuri Kozyrev wins the Visa d'or News for his recent body of work: ‘The Arab Spring - On Revolution Road’.Since February, Kozyrev traveled to Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and...more


31 Aug 11 By  NOOR Agency

stanley greene at the syrian border for polka magazine

This month, Polka Magazine publishes Stanley Greene's reportage from the Turkish Syrian border, where he traveled in July and met with Syrian refugees and Turkish...more


19 Aug 11 By  NOOR Agency

"lemmy's box"

Pep Bonet, three years on the road with Lemmy Kilmister. Since 2008 when he first started to photograph the mythical rock 'n roll band "Motörhead", Pep Bonet...more


12 Aug 11 By  NOOR Agency

deportation: the flip side of immigration | a video by jon lowenstein

Thousands of Mexican and Central American migrants are returned to their home countries each year by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. The...more


12 Aug 11 By  NOOR Agency

stanley greene talks about robert capa

During this year Rencontres d'Arles festival, Stanley Greene was interviewed at the exhibition called "The Mexican Suitcase", in which for the first time was...more


12 Aug 11 By  NOOR Agency

crimea soviet nostalgia by yuri kozyrev

In 2009, Yuri Kozyrev travelled to Crimea to portray this atypic land, a part of Ukraine and strongly related to Russia. Two years later, Yuri opens his archive and...more


02 Aug 11 By  NOOR Agency

horn of africa drought

Text by Francesco Zizola. "In 2009, when reporting from Southern Ethiopia, I promised myself never to cover another famine. Bearing witness to the death of...more


27 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

climate refugees | jan grarup

The current crisis in East Africa was already visible in 2009, when NOOR photographer Jan Grarup visited the Dadaab camp in Kenya, where severe drought had forced...more


27 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

via panam: migration in the americas

Kadir van Lohuizen has now left the South American continent to continue along the Pan American highway towards the North American part.He is now on his 133rd day of...more


26 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

black passport: stanley greene's biography

“I think you can only keep positive for eight years. If you stay at it longer than that, you turn. And not into a beautiful butterfly." The basis of Black Passport...more


26 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

work in progress: "a few more breaths" by jon lowenstein

A project by Jon Lowenstein about the usage of Nitric Oxide to treat cerebral malaria in children.Medecins Sans Frontieres' Epicentre, Ikaria and the Mbarara University...more


19 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

pakistan's climate refugees by alixandra fazzina

A year on from Pakistan's worst ever deluge, hundreds of thousands of people remain stranded with no means to return home or rebuild their lives.Long after the emergency...more


18 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

dispatch from yemen by yuri kozyrev

In May Yuri Kozyrev travelled once again to Yemen after his previous visit in December 2010. Since December, demonstrations and protests against the current president...more


18 Jul 11 By  NOOR Agency

september 11: the afterglow

There was an afterglow, a lingering light, a feeling before the crush when the world tightened and the future we now suffer was sealed. I reach back to those days in...more



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