The Calabar Carnival festival starts every 1st of December and ends on the 31st of December in Nigeria and considered the cleanest, friendliest and best maintained state capital in the whole country. This year, NOOR photographers Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde covered the event which had as a theme "Africanism".
Bénédicte Kurzen and Sanne De WIlde / NOOR
"Grozny: Nine Cities", a project by Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko, curated by Anna Shpakova, will be exhibited on December 10th, 2019, in commemoration of the 20-year anniversary since Medecins Sans Frontiere won the Nobel Peace Prize. Olga Kravets will discuss about her photographs and do a guided visit.
Olga Kravets / NOOR
Nina Berman will talk at "Conversations on Conflict Photography" at the Bronx Documentary Center December 7 at 6pm in New York City with author and educator Dr. Lauren Walsh and photographer Spencer Platt.
Nina Berman / NOOR
Up until May 3, 2020, Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term project on the sea level rise "Rising Tide" will be exhibited at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The exhibition will display old and new work on the consequences of the rising sea levels. "Arctic: New Frontier" by Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev is also being exhibited with a newly produced 25 minute film on a 12 meter screen.
© Twycer / Maritime Museum
During the Nikon-NOOR Academy in Barcelona, visual-storytellers Tanya Habjouqa, Sebastian Liste, and Jon Lowenstein will talk at El Observatorio on November 13, 2019, at 7:30 P.M.
The discussion will focus on the distinct approaches and styles used by each photographer when addressing subjects with global effects, in very different parts of the world: Moderated by Jessica Murray, this event is free and open to the public. The talk will be in Spanish and English with translation.
© Tanya Habjouqa
Signed copies of Olga Kravets' "Grozny: Nine Cities" book will be available at the stand of Dewi Lewis Publishing in Grand Palais, booth SE17, during Paris Photo 2019.
“Grozny: Nine Cities” is a cross-media project on the aftermath of two Chechen wars between 2009 and 2018: a book, a web-documentary, an exhibition. This is a collaborative project with photographers and filmmakers Maria Morina, Oksana Yushko, Olga Kravets, and curator Anna Shpakova
Nikon Ambassador Olga Kravets will be talking at “Salon de la Photo” in Paris. You can find Nikon France’s stand is at 5.2 E 067
Sanne De Wilde and Benedicte Kurzen talked about their project "Land of Ibeji" at WestLicht. Schauplatz für Fotografie on October 16, as part of the World Press Photo Exhibition worldwide.
© Rachele Moriggi / WestLicht
NOOR visual-storyteller Kadir van Lohuizen presented a preview of his latest NTR programme series Na ons de zondvloed at the Architectuur Filmfestival Rotterdam. His 4-movie series dives into the human consequences of rising sea levels.
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Jon Lowenstein will exhibit his project "South Side" at The Gallery Club, a platform for photography. There will be an Open House in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on October 13, from 1 P.M. to 6 P.M. and in Haarlem on October 26, from 3 P.M. to 5 P.M.
© Jon Lowenstein / NOOR
