Pop-Up Exhibition 'The Leathermen of Pakistan' by Asim Rafiqui

© Asim Rafiqui / NOOR
  

NOOR, Oxfam Novib and SOMO are pleased to invite you to the Pop-Up Exhibition The Leathermen of Pakistan by NOOR photographer Asim Rafiqui at Humanity House. 

For Oxfam and SOMO, Asim Rafiqui travelled to Karachi to document the deplorable working conditions of Pakistan’s leather industry workers.

Asim Rafiqui will present his work and share his experience in Pakistan. 

When: Tuesday, December 20th, 16: 00- 18:00

Where: Humanity House, Prinsegracht 8, The Hague, The Netherlands

Program:

16.00: Welcome by the moderator

16.05: Multimedia presentation

16.15: Intro to Pakistan's leather industry by SOMO researcher Martje Theuws

16.30: Presentation by Asim Rafiqui (NOOR)

17.00: Drinks

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© Asim Rafiqui / NOOR

The leather tanning industry in Pakistan employs about 500,000 Pakistanis who do precarious work under deplorable labour conditions. Chemicals and heavy machinery are used without protective equipment whilst labourers work long hours and still do not earn enough to make a decent living. Leather workers are hired through contractors and have no job security. The leather they produce accounts for 5.4% of Pakistan’s total exports and often ends up in clothing and accessories sold by brands in Europe and the United States.

call for applications: free nikon-noor workshop in berlin

NOOR and Nikon Europe invite young photographers living and/or working in Germany to submit their applications for selection for the 2017 free NOOR-Nikon Academy workshop taking place at C/O Berlin, Germany from 7 to 10 March 2017.  

NOOR photographers Yuri Kozyrev, Bénédicte Kurzen and Kadir van Lohuizen will lead the workshop, sharing their expertise and working together with participants to develop their visual stories and projects.

KEY DATES

Workshop: 7 – 10 March 2017

Deadline to Apply: 15 January 2017, 11:59pm (CET)

Notification of Selection: 1 February 2017

Fee: Free of charge

THE WORKSHOP

During the four-day workshop, 15 participants, together with Yuri Kozyrev, Bénédicte Kurzen and Kadir van Lohuizen will share experiences, work on portfolios, improve editing skills and learn how to develop visual stories. Participants can look forward to intensive communication with NOOR photographers and their peers on subjects ranging from how to develop and edit a photographic story or project, to the nuances of the international photo market. The workshop is a unique opportunity to learn impactful visual storytelling, further develop personal vision, strengthen ongoing projects and gain new knowledge and contacts in an intimate and interactive environment.

The workshop is free of charge and includes lunch. Please note that travel, accommodation and additional meals are not covered and should be arranged by individual participants. The workshop will take place at C/O Berlin: Hardenbergstraße 19, 10623 Berlin

The workshop will be focused around developing, editing, refining and presenting/disseminating a visual documentary series, story and/or project. Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the workshop with a body of work they are currently developing, editing, working on and/or thinking about how to share with audiences. Thus, applicants are encouraged to include this work and indicate what they want to explore in relation to the work in their application portfolio and motivation statement.

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THE TUTORS

Yuri Kozyrev has worked as a photojournalist for the past 25 years. He started his career documenting the collapse of the Soviet Union, capturing the rapid changes in the former USSR for the LA Times during the 90’s. In 2001, Yuri started to cover international news, working before from Afghanistan and then from Iraq as contract photographer for Time Magazine. Since the beginning of 2011, Yuri has been documenting the “Arab Revolutions” and their aftermaths in Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia and specially Egypt and Libya. Yuri has received numerous honors for his photography, including several World Press Photo Awards, the OPC’s Oliver Rebbot Award, and the ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism, the Frontline Club Award, the Visa d’or News and the Prix Bayeux-Calvados, and he was named 2011 Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition. In 2015, Yuri covered the conflict in eastern Ukraine and the migrant crisis in Europe.

Bénédicte Kurzen began her photographic career when she moved to Israel in 2003, covering hard news as a freelancer in the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon. For the past ten years, Bénédicte has been covering conflicts and socio-economical changes in Africa. Her body of work “Amaqabane”, on the life of former anti-apartheid combatants was produced for prestigious World Press Joop Swart Masterclass 2008. In 2011, she received a grant from the Pulitzer Center, which allowed her to produce a body of work on Nigeria, “A Nation Lost to Gods”. Her work has been screened and exhibited at Visa pour l’Image and was nominated for the Visa d’Or in 2012. After becoming a NOOR full member in 2012, she decided to move to Lagos, from where she could pursue her coverage of Africa, with a focus on Nigeria. Alongside, she became an adjunct lecturer at the American University of Nigeria in journalism.

Kadir van Lohuizen has covered conflicts in Africa and elsewhere, but is probably best known for his long-term projects on the seven rivers of the world, the rising of sea levels, the diamond industry and migration in the Americas. Kadir has received numerous prizes and awards in photojournalism. In 2000 and 2002 Kadir was a jury member of the World Press Photo contest and is currently on the supervisory board of the World Press Photo foundation. Kadir is a frequent lecturer and photography teacher and is based in Amsterdam.

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 SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

Agata Szymanska-Medina

Arne Piepke

Astrid Dill

Daniela Koenig

Emile Ducke

Emine Akbaba

Ingmar Björn Nolting

Jonas Kako

Ksenia Les

Lena Mucha

Lisa Hermes

Lukas Schulze

Natalya Reznik

Paul Lovis Wagner

Sebastian Wells

Sebi Berens

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For more information contact NOOR Education via education@noorimages.com or give us a call at +31.20.6060.780 

Photo from NOOR-Nikon 2016 Almaty Masterclass © Nikon Europe

noor women at tbilisi photo festival 2016

Welcome NOOR photographers at Tbilisi Photo Festival 2016, an annual international photography festival in the Caucasus region. This  year TPF will host NOOR photographers: Alixandra Fazzina, Tanya Habjouqa and Benedicte Kurzen, who will be involved in a series of events dedicated to the special theme "Women in Photography".

ROUND TABLE

A panel discussion will take place on September 19 moderated by Anna Alix Koffi, creator and editor-in-chief of OFF the wall photobook. 

ARAB DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM

On September 20, Tania Habjouqa will present some of the many highlights of the Arab Documentary Program. This training program features the work of twenty Arabic photographers working from Morocco to Somalia.

SPECIAL NIGHT BY NOOR'S FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHERS

September 21 TPF participants will have an opportunity to attend “Special Night by Noor Women”, featuring an open air screening of the photographers’ work at Fabrika.

WORKSHOP WITH ALIXANDRA FAZZINA

Under the framework of Tbilisi Photo Festival Alixandra Fazzina will lead 4-day intense workshop for emerging female photographers from Georgia. The workshop will take place on September 21-24.

NOOR 2016 Annual Meeting in Amsterdam

The NOOR Annual General Meeting brings together the agency’s international photographers & staff to discuss photography, visual storytelling, ideas, company business and vote on potential new members.

This year’s AGM will take place between May 31 and June 5th, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After four days of meetings, NOOR is pleased to invite you to come and explore the NOOR world and meet NOOR photographers! 

© Pep Bonet / NOOR

NOOR ON AFRICA

Friday, June 3rd, 2016 - From 20:00 to 22:00

Pakhuis de Zwijger, Piet Heinkade 179, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Six photographers. Six countries. Six stories. One continent. 

NOOR on Africa, literally translated to “light on Africa”, is a new visual dialogue and approach on Africa, a collective lens on the continent, questioning the way stories are made and told.

NOOR Foundation and Nikon have joined forces to portrait the continent through stories of political and social expression, captured in Tunisia, South Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Botswana.

NOOR photographers Pep Bonet, Benedicte Kurzen, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen & Asim Rafiqui will each show their projects and talk about the different approaches they have chosen to picture the continent.

Seats are limited. Register now: ow.ly/F0uz3006k39

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 © Pep Bonet / NOOR 

AMSTERDAM PORTRAIT STUDIO

Saturday, June 4th, 2016 - From 14:00 to 18:00

X BANK, Spuistraat 172, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Share a unique afternoon with NOOR & X BANK. Explore, visit and have your exclusive portrait taken by NOOR photographers.

On the occasion of NOOR’s Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam, NOOR is excited to be collaborating with X BANK, the ultimate collective fusion between fashion, art, design, culture and the urban landscape located in a 700 m2 hybrid space to produce the Amsterdam portrait studio.

NOOR photographers will take your portrait according to your wishes: polaroid, portrait Studio, close-up, different atmospheres and visual creativity will be accessible for a privileged public.

Come solo, with a friend, or your significant other to live this unforgettable experience.

Reservation, info and price list:

Leonie Buitenhuis

+31.62.43.37.485

yourportrait@noorimages.com

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© Francesca Pradella 

MEET NOOR

Saturday, June 4th, 2016 - From 18:00 to 20:30

PhotoQ bookshop, Wijdesteeg 3A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Come and share a drink with NOOR photographers at PhotoQ Bookshop. A selection of NOOR books will be available for purchase and signing!

21-27 march #‎NOORtakeover

 

In 1979 the United Nations General Assembly established a Week of Solidarity with the Peoples struggling against Racism and Racial Discrimination.

In occasion of this celebration, from 21 to 27 March NOOR photographers Nina Berman and Jon Lowenstein will takeover the noorimages instagram feed to showcase their work on racial discrimination in America and the ways in which - from the BlackLivesMatter movement to the protests against Islamophobia - activists and civil rights movements are struggling for rights in an attempt to break the cycle of violence and racism.

public lecture with yuri kozyrev, bénédicte kurzen & sebastián liste

As a special program for the public on the occasion of the NOOR-Nikon Kazakhstan 2016 Masterclass, we invite you to join NOOR Photographers Yuri Kozyrev, Bénédicte Kurzen & Sebastián Liste for an evening exploring visual journalism and documentary practice. 

Each photographer will present and share one of their own long-term projects: Yuri Kozyrev will discuss his coverage the Arab Uprisings. Bénédicte Kurzen will share her work in Nigeria, which has spanned news coverage for international media to local public exhibitions incorporating archival sources. And Sebastián Liste will present his ongoing project on crime, punishment and security in Latin America. 

Together, the NOOR photographers will talk about their strategies for building visual narratives and how and why they have invested their time into these stories and projects.

Following the event, NOOR, Nikon Europe and Medianet invite you to join us for drinks.

For more info and to register please visit the event page here. Please note seating is limited - we encourage you to register as soon as possible.

Info:

Friday 1 April 2016, 18.30-20.30

Kimep University (New building Hall #1)

Almaty, Kazakhstan

This program is made possible through the generous support of Nikon Europe.

Photo: © Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR

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В рамках специальной программы для широкой общественности по случаю Мастер-класса NOOR-Nikon в Казахстане 2016, мы рады пригласить вас провести вечер с фотографами  NOOR Юрием Козыревым (Россия), Бенедикт Курзен (Франция) и Себастьяном Листом (Испания), чтобы ближе познакомиться с визуальной и документальной журналистикой.

Каждый фотограф представит один из своих долгосрочных проектов: Юрий Козырев  расскажет про освещение «арабских» волнений, Бенедикт Курзен поделится информацией о ее работе в Нигерии, получившей широкий охват - от новостных репортажей для международных медиа и до местных публичных выставок, включавших в себя архивные материалы. Себастьян Лист представит свой текущий проект о преступлениях, системе наказаний и системе безопасности в Латинской Америке.

Фотографы NOOR также будут рассказывать  о стратегиях конструирования визуальных нарративов и том, как и почему они решили инвестировать свое время и ресурсы в проекты.