new member

Noor is excited to announce that Jon Lowenstein will become a member of Noor as of the first of May. Jon specializes in long-term, in-depth documentary photographic projects. We are truly happy that Jon joins our group. In the next Noor newsletter we will make you acquainted with his work on the Noor website and in the online archive, until then you can view his photographic projects on his personal website (click image) and his Shadow Lives USA project by clicking here.

latest stories

Two portrait stories from Honduras by Pep Bonet on HIV/AIDS infected people made last February. A feature from the Niger Delta by Kadir van Lohuizen documenting this dangerous and polluted oil region, February 2008. Calabria 'Ndrangheta by Francesco Zizola, a picture story about the region of the quite unknown criminal 'Ndrangheta syndicate.

nepal ongoing

Philip Blenkinsop returned from Kathmandu last week where he covered the elections, Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda), Tibetan exiles, and Buddhist nuns being arrested while demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy. His work on Nepal's political history, including the massacre of the Royal family and the Maoist guerrillas in the mountains, can be viewed here and in the Noor archive.

agency news

Founding member Jodi Bieber has decided to leave her agency by May the first. Noor is sorry to see Jodi leave at this early stage but respects her choice and wishes her all the best with her work in the future.

prizes

Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster - jointly produced by Media Storm and the Open Society Institute and featuring Stanley Greene's and Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term projects on Katrina's Aftermath - has been nominated for the 2008 Webby Awards.
Jan Grarup received the "Special Prize by Juries" in the Days Japan International Photojournalism Award with a picture from Darfur.