> 2011
November 5 to December 16: Solutions by NOOR exhibition at 10b Gallery, Rome, Italy. Opening with the presence of Claudia Hinterseer (NOOR managing director and founding member), Francesco Zizola (curator of the Rome exhibition and NOOR founding member), Pep Bonet (NOOR founding member) and Giancarlo Ceraudo (NOOR new member).
November 4: Daniele Protti, editor in chief of L’Europeo monthly magazine - while attending the opening of Solutions by NOOR exhibition at 10b - launches the November issue of L’Europeo, completely devoted to the Solutions by NOOR project.
June 8: Arles' Night of the Year shows Solutions by NOOR. A multimedia projection on the second part of NOOR's multi year project on climate change.
Solutions by NOOR on show at the Alternatilla Festival, the multidisciplinary festival in Majorca, Spain. From 01 April to 10 June.
From 15 April to 27 May 2011: Consequences by NOOR exhibition at 10b Gallery, Rome, Italy. Opening with the presence of Francesco Zizola.
From 26 January to 25 March 2011: Consequences by NOOR on show at Diagonal's metro station in Barcelona, Spain.
Consequences by NOOR street exhibition at the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. 53 pictures were printed with Epson's new - ecologically friendly - printer, fit for outdoors printing. Organized by Joan Carles of Fonart IB. From 29 November to 31 January 2011.
> 2010
The Consequences by NOOR street exhibition was on show in Amsterdam on the centrally located Rembrandt Square as part of the 4th International Grid2010 Photography biennial, Oct 2010. The Consequences by NOOR outdoors street exhibition project was realized in collaboration with Greenpeace Netherlands.
August 2010 marked the fifth commemoration year of Hurricane Katrina. Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen exhibited images of Katrina's devastation and the aftermath (click) in a truck-exhibition that drove from Houston to New Orleans in August 2010, with a series of events accompanying the show (see the schedule below). Photographes covered the interior and exterior of the 24 foot truck while they drove from Houston to New Orleans.
The Consequences by NOOR street exhibition opened on Istanbul’s centrally located Galatasaray Square on World Environmental Day, 5 June 2010. Ever since, the Consequences by NOOR was shown as in- and outdoors show throughout Europe, as well as the Paraty Em Foco festival in Brazil.
> 2009
The group project “Consequences by NOOR” (click) launches with a series of events and public initiatives during the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Dec 2009. The project documents the universal effects of Climate Changes on human lives, and will travel as an outdoors exhibition throughout Europe. It will also develop into an educational package, to be used as supportive educational material at the masterclass in documentary photography in Saint Petersburg March 2010.
On the day of the inauguration of US president Barack Obama, NOOR participated in the ‘This Day of Change Project’, involving 123 international photojournalists documenting “HOPE” around the world on 20 January 2009. A book and travelling exhibition resulted from this project.
> 2008
A collective exhibition on the theme of war-photojournalism was organized by NOOR and shown in Bayeux, France, in the autumn of 2008, during the 15th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Festival about conflict and war reporting for correspondents.
From December 2008 through to April 2009, at the Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, in the Paris suburbs, the NOOR Foundation displayed a collective exhibition on a variety of social themes, which was frequented by over 5000 school children through a special school program, amongst other visitors.
"Conflicts of Interest"; an exhibition covering different themes within photojournalistic conflict coverage, was on show August through to November 2009 at War Photo Ltd in Dubrovnik. A catalogue was printed to accompany the latter show.
> 2007
A street group exhibition was organized during the multidisciplinary Alternatilla Festival in Mallorca, Spain. Based on archival essays by Francesco Zizola, Jan Grarup, Kadir van Lohuizen, Pep Bonet, Philip Blenkinsop, Samantha Appleton, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev and Jon Lowenstein, the NOOR Foundation created an outdoors (traveling) exhibition. The project visualized the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted and proclaimed by the United Nations, in their resolution 217 A in1948). The NOOR photographers joined to foster and promote education and respect of the rights and liberties as described by the resolution. A collective book called 217 A, accompanying the exhibition (now traveling Spain) was published in 2009.
> 2011
From 14 to 19 May 2011 NOOR, Investing in the Future and Contemporary Image Collective organized a working conference in Cairo, Egypt with the aim to assess the role of photojournalism and digital journalism in the current and future political upheavals. Participants came from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Iraqi Kurdistan, Morocco, Tunisia and Yemen. NOOR photographers Alixandra Fazzina, Nina Berman and Stanley Greene provided training. NOORʼs managing director Claudia Hinterseer moderated the photojournalism workshop. Egyptian cyber activist Bassam Samir moderated the digital journalism workshop.
From 21 March to the 25th 2011, the annual NOOR-Nikon masterclass in documentary photography took place in Bucharest, Romania.
During the five days workshop, fifteen participants, together with three NOOR member photographers - Philip Blenkinsop, Pep Bonet and Stanley Greene - shared experiences, worked on their portfolios, improved their editing skills and discussed how to pick up documentary stories. The tutor team was supported by Lars Petterson from Nikon Nordic and Claudia Hintereseer, NOOR's Managing Director.
> 2010
Following the success of the previously mentioned Lagos masterclass, in the spring of 2010 the foundation organized a second masterclass in documentary photography. This time in Saint Petersburg for 15 highly motivated photojournalists hailing from seven different former CIS and Baltic countries.
> 2009
In March 2009, the foundation organized a masterclass in documentary photography for 15 highly motivated photojournalists hailing from seven different African countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe). The group gathered in Lagos, Nigeria, to team up with three NOOR photographers. During five days of intense sessions, a host of information about the profession was shared and critically discussed. The participants worked on a story around the theme of 'Survival' in preparation of the class. Contact with participants did not stop after the training program, but resulted in an online community on Facebook.
NOOR Facebook page (click)
