In Le Monde, Maria Turchenkova and Stanley Greene's project on the Roads to Revolutions.
Open call for applications: tuition-free workshop with Pep Bonet & Kadir van Lohuizen
Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project: a Workshop with Pep Bonet & Kadir van Lohuizen (NOOR)
With 2017 marking the 10th anniversary of NOOR Images and the 100th anniversary of Nikon, together we celebrate our continued collaboration. On this occasion NOOR Images and the Nikon France Pro Department invite visual journalists and documentary photographers to apply for the 2017 NOOR-Nikon visual journalism workshop – Developing your Transmedia & Long-term Project with Pep Bonet and Kadir van Lohuizen.
The workshop will take place in Bayeux, France, from 3 to 7 October, coinciding with the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados prize meeting and festival for war correspondents. Organized since 1994, this is an annual event that pays tribute to and brings together journalists working in precarious conditions whom enable the public free access to information. The workshop program will make this most of this context, integrating special events from the program and connecting workshop participants to the inspirational and important network of attendees.
The workshop is open to young and aspiring visual journalists, including those intending to work in conflict zones and potentially dangerous environments, as well as those interested in developing a transmedia practice.
During the five-day program (see below), NOOR photographers and agency co-founders Pep Bonet (ES) and Kadir van Lohuizen (NL) will share key insights, experiences and tools to help workshop participants develop their own long term transmedia projects. The program includes one on one portfolio reviews with each tutor, group editing sessions, along with presentations and discussions covering everything from transmedia project conception, budget development and production, to collaboration and dissemination.
Participants can get the most out of the experience when they come to the workshop with a body of work they are currently editing, working on and/or thinking about how to share with audiences. The workshop will be an intense, intimate, creative, productive and inspiring experience. Participants will come away from it not only with new knowledge, ideas, tools and motivation, but also with a new network of colleagues – all of which will push their projects and practice further.
Where: Place Gauquelin-Despallieres, Bayeux, France during the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados prize meeting and festival for war correspondents.
Who: 7-12 participants
KEY DATES
Workshop: 3-7 October 2017
Deadline to Apply: 20 August 2017, 11:59pm (CET)
Notification of Selection: 5 September 2017
THE TUTORS
Pep Bonet (Spain, 1974) is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer who has travelled extensively capturing profound moments that represent the unbalanced world in which we live. His longer-term projects focus on African issues, with his most well-known project being ‘Faith in Chaos’, a photo essay on the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone. He is also known for a long-term reportage on the rock ‘n roll band Motörhead. Pep was a recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Humanistic Grant in Photography in 2005, the Horbach Award in 2015, and has won three World Press Photo Awards in 2007, 2009 and 2013. Pep frequently lectures on photography, multimedia and film, and lives in Mallorca, Spain.
Kadir van Lohuizen (The Netherlands, 1963) 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.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM OUTLINE
3 October, Tuesday: Day One
Afternoon
• Welcome from Nikon France & NOOR
• Outline workshop program
• Participant introductions
• Visit festival exhibitions together
• Pep Bonet presentation & discussion: going from stills to film & mixing medias
Evening
• Welcome dinner
4 October, Wednesday: Day Two
Morning
• Kadir van Lohuizen presentation & discussion: pre-production and planning a transmedia project
• One on one portfolio reviews – each participant will have reviews from both Kadir & Pep
Afternoon
• Continue one on one portfolio reviews
• Pep presentation & discussion: production & technique on a budget
5 October, Thursday: Day Three
Morning
• Pep & Kadir presentation & discussion on their collaborative transmedia project on human trafficking, gaining access and interviews.
• Editing participants’ work in small groups
Afternoon
• Continue small groups editing session
• Kadir presentation on project proposals & pitching
• Participants work on final presentations with tutors available for feedback
6 October, Friday: Day Four
Morning
• Guest speaker journalist Lucas Menget (RadioFrance, Canal+, FRANCE 24 & more) will present & discuss his experience, projects and work with NOOR and Upfront
• Participants final projected presentations
Afternoon
• Recap on final presentations
• Kadir and Pep presentation & discussion: covering conflict and ethics.
• Kadir and Pep final presentation & discussion: dissemination and reaching your audience: editorial, film, exhibition, digital platforms
Evening
• Nikon party
7 October, Saturday: Day Five
Morning
• Visit to observe Prix Bayeux-Calvados jury in action
Afternoon
• Book signing with Pep
Evening
• Prix Bayeux-Calvados Awards ceremony at Chapitteau, followed by the Awards Dinner
PRACTICALITIES
Tuition and meals during the workshop are free through the generous support of Nikon France. There cost of the accommodation package is EUR 350. Nikon France and Prix Bayeux-Calvados offer workshop participants access to all professional events happening around the Rencontres Prix Bayeux-Calvados, including the Nikon party on Friday 6 October and the awards ceremony on 7 October.
Please note – all participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and expenses to and from Bayeux. Possession of a passport and travel insurance is required to apply.
Please do bring a laptop and hard drive to show, share and store your work. It’s not necessary to bring your recording equipment, but you are welcome to do so. Nikon will provide some equipment during the workshop for demonstration and testing.
REQUIREMENTS
• Basic experience (two to three years) in documentary photography or photojournalism in professional or educational setting
• English fluency (the workshop will be conducted in English)
• Good technical understanding of your camera equipment
TO APPLY
Complete the Application Form, including your motivation (200 words maximum), relevant work experience (200 words maximum), relevant education & trainings experience (200 words maximum) & a description of the project you are currently working on (200 words maximum).
The form will also prompt you to submit an image portfolio which must be submitted as a PDF and include the following:
> No more than 40 images in total including:
> At least one photo story (minimum 8 images, maximum 20 images)
> No more than 8 single images (images which are not part of a photo story)
> All images should be accompanied by a short caption including the date the photo was made
> For any photo story, please include a title and short introduction
There are also fields for applicants to include up to three Vimeo links for video
The application deadline is 11:59pm CET, Sunday, 20 August 2017
Organized with the generous support of Nikon France.
Announcing participants of kazakhstan documentary photography training program
Together with Soros Foundation Kazakhstan, NOOR Education is happy to announce the ten participants selected for the 2017 Kazakhstan NOOR-SFK Documentary Photography Training Program.
The program has been developed to encourage and support photojournalists, documentary photographers and visual storytellers from Kazakhstan. Over the course of the program, participants will develop a social-interest photo story under the guidance of Tanya Habjouqa, Sebastian Liste and NOOR Alumni – Timur Karpov, Elyor Nematov and Daria Tuminas. The training will include online sessions and field work during August and September to prepare participants for the intensive four-day workshop taking place in Almaty from 12 to 15 October 2017.
The participants, six male photographers and four female photographers, were selected from over 50 applicants from Kazakhstan. We thank all candidates for sending over their applications and all the time you have spent on your portfolio. The selected ten are:
Oleg Bitner
Maria Grinkevich
Viktoriya Li
Bek Maratov
Sanat Ongarbaev
Vladimir Tretyakov
The training program is free-of-cost for participants and it is made possible through the generous support of Soros Foundation Kazakhstan and Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project, with additional support from Nikon Kazakhstan and through partnership with MediaNet.
Visual Storytelling Masterclass in Georgia
VISUAL STORYTELLING: ORIGINAL MASTERCLASS WITH YURI KOZYREV
In village Shenako, Tusheti, Georgia
Saturday July 22 to Thursday, July 28 2017
NOOR & Tbilisi Photo Festival are excited to invite you for Original Masterclass in the remote village of Shenako, 2000 meters high in the Greater Caucasus mountain range. This awe-inspiring hamlet of shepherds and horsemen was chosen for its breathtaking landscape and its photographic legacy in the name of Shalva Alkhanaidze, whose brilliant mid-20th century images of Tushetian life reveal a world of raw passion and somber frankness.
The Masterclass aims both to help photographers develop a personal photographic language and to discover Georgia by exploring one of its most enchanting regions.
During these six days, Yuri will collaborate closely with each photographer on developing and refining their individual photographic stories. He will also share with participants his professional expertise and discuss the ethics of “getting close”. The workshop will include theoretical discussions, portfolio reviews and practical shooting assignments, making this workshop a fascinating learning experience.
At this Masterclass, Yuri will also present his stories produced for the world’s leading publications. He will focus on editing and image sequencing and discuss how to get into places, how not to run after spot news and tell the story that is unseen. He will also explain how to approach personal stories and stay human to the subjects of your story.
THE TBILISI PHOTO FESTIVAL
The Tbilisi Photo Festival was launched in 2010, in partnership with Les Rencontres d’Arles. It is the first annual international photography festival in the Caucasus and has proven to be not only the most respected festival of photography in the region but one of the most highly esteemed cultural events in the Caucasus.
TBILISI PHOTO FESTIVAL Masterclasses takes pride in ensuring that participants are completely taken care of from the moment of their arrival until the time of departure. This year, Tbilisi Photo Festival has partnered with AtlasGlobal Airlines, who will provide all participants a 30 percent discount on flights from every European city to Tbilisi.
The philosophy of these Masterclasses is to combine a friendly atmosphere in a country where people are famous for their hospitality with hard-working sessions to give shape to one’s inner eye. Developing photographic language requires being engaged on the ground and understanding how crucial editing is to creating a coherent series.
Participants will be driven up to an elevation of 2000 meters along a breathtaking road through the Tusheti National Park to Shenako, where they will be lodged at a family-run guest house. Days will be spent exploring ancient villages made of slate, stone and wood with respect to local customs and traditions (a mix of Christian and pre-Christian paganism). In these protected areas settlements cling impossibly to the sides of mountains while the people are true mountaineers who have been forging their lives in tune with the rugged natural environment for generations. Participants will be flown out of Shenako by helicopter, weather permitting.
WHO CAN JOIN THIS WORKSHOP?
Anyone who has a passion for the still image: professional and amateur photographers, artists and students of photography and art.
We believe that every individual has the capacity to build their own visual language when passion for the imageco-exist with the proper guidance.
FINAL PRESENTATION
Each participant will prepare a slideshow from the final selection of their work, with the assistance of their instructors. These slideshows will be publicly projected on the last evening of the Masterclass on a wide screen. For Shenako’s residents, it will be the first ever public photography screening in the village and a unique opportunity to see firsthand their guest’s perceptions of their remarkable world.
WHAT TO BRING
A portfolio of approx. 30 images, including few photographic stories and singles
- Your digital camera, one lens only & its accessories (extra batteries, memory cards, cable for image transfer to a computer, USB key, external hard disk, etc).
- A notebook or recording device to facilitate note-taking during the Masterclass.
- Your personal computer, if possible.
- Clothing suitable for the mountains, including appropriate footwear. Remember, night time can get quite chilly.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES
English, Russian, Georgian
MORE INFORMATION
Contact Elina Valaité, Masterclass coordinator (she speaks English, Russian and Georgian).
email: masterclass@tbilisiphotofestival.com
ACCOMMODATION
In Tbilisi, participants will stay at a modern, comfortable and secure hostel conveniently located in the center of the city. Fabrika is an old Soviet sewing factory that has been repurposed into a fabulously modern hostel and cool urban space in an old Tbilisi neighborhood.
http://fabrikatbilisi.com/hostel/
In Shenako, participants will stay at a rustic family-run guesthouse.
PRICE
The cost of the 6 days of masterclass is € 950 euro
The accomodation ready package price is € 600, including:
- Transfers from and to Airport in Tbilisi
- Accommodation in Tbilisi and Shenko
- Trips by car during the masterclass in Shenako
- 3 meals per day during the stay in Georgia
- Travel from Tbilisi to Shenko by car and from Shenako to Tbilisi by helicopter
The number of participants is limited to 8.
The participants that will register before May 15th , will get the special 10% discount on the price of the masterclass.
MORE INFORMATION
Contact Elina Valaité, Masterclass coordinator (she speaks English, Russian and Georgian).
Pep Bonet's story in Huck Magazine
Pep Bonet‘s story on the heavy metal scene of Botswana has been published in Huck Magazine.
Call for applications: Documentary Photography Training in Kazakhstan
NOOR – SFK DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING PROGRAM FOR KAZAKHSTANI PHOTOGRAPHERS TAUGHT BY TANYA HABJOUQA AND SEBASTIÁN LISTE
12-15 OCTOBER 2017 IN ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN
DEADLINE TO APPLY: 2 JULY 2017
NOOR Foundation and Soros Foundation Kazakhstan are pleased to invite Kazakhstani photographers to apply for a free-of-cost, intensive training in documentary photography and visual storytelling led by NOOR photographers Tanya Habjouqa (US/Jordan) and Sebastián Liste (ES).
As visual storytellers – documentary photographers create, select, combine, sequence and present their photographs to craft them into visual narratives. These visual narratives use photographs, captions, text and supporting media to bring attention to and communicate important stories for a broader public to engage with. This training program is a unique opportunity to learn and develop the skills, tools and commitment needed to produce impactful visual storytelling.
During the intensive training, ten participants will have the opportunity to cover a social-interest photo story under the guidance of NOOR photographers and NOOR Education alumni. In an intimate and interactive environment, the program will impart skills, tools and ethical principles to aspiring visual storytellers to conceptualize, produce, photography, edit and present their own photo stories.
Participants will be coached and mentored while they work on their own photo stories in the field and then come together with Tanya and Sebastián in Almaty to work to refine, edit and present their work.
We encourage all young Kazakhstani photographers with an interest documentary photography, photojournalism, visual journalism and visual storytelling to apply.
This program is also made possible through the generous support of Soros Foundation Kazakhstanand Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project, with additional support from Nikon Kazakhstan and through partnership with MediaNet.
TUTORS
Tanya Habjouqa (US / Jordan, 1975) is a documentary photographer specializing in gender, social, and human rights issues in the Middle East. She approaches her subjects with sensitivity and an eye for the absurd. She is the author of Occupied Pleasures, heralded by TIME magazine and the Smithsonian as one of the best photo books of 2015 (winning a World Press Photo award in 2014). She was the recipient of the Magnum Foundation 2013 Emergency Fund, and mentors grantees from across the Arab region for their “Arab Photographer Documentary Fund” with the Prince Claus Foundation and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. Tanya is a founding member of Rawiya, the first all female photo collective of the Middle East. She lectures ‘Narrative/ National Identity in Photography’ at Al Quds Bard University.
Sebastián Liste (Spain, 1985) is a documentary photographer and sociologist devoted to documenting the profound cultural changes and contemporary issues in Latin America and the Mediterranean area. In 2010, while getting his Masters degree in Documentary Photography in Barcelona, he won the Ian Parry Scholarship for his project “Urban Quilombo” and was named young editorial photographer of the year at the Lucie Awards. In 2011 Sebastián was selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass. In 2012 he was announced as the Young Reporter of the Year at Visa pour l’Image festival. He was the recipient of the Magnum EF Grant, the Getty Editorial Grant and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He also received the Fotopres grant in Spain to develop a project in Venezuela, and a World Press Photo prize in 2016 for his story “Citizen Journalism in Brazil’s Favelas”. Sebastián Liste is currently based between Spain and Brazil.
NOOR EDUCATION ALUMNI COACHES
Timur Karpov (UZ, Nikon NOOR Saint Petersburg Masterclass alumnus)
Timur Karpov (1990) is Uzbekistan-based documentary photographer. He started to develop his photography talent at age 14. After receiving an Honorary Mention in UNEP International Photography Awards in 2005, photography become Timur’s lifetime passion. His professional career as a freelance photojournalist started in 2008 when he was inspired by NOOR photographer Yuri Kozyrev during the Nikon NOOR Masterclass in St. Petersburg, Russia. From that time, Timur started to work as a stringer for Associated Press and Reuters. An absence of media and the political restrictions of Uzbekistan (whose politics do not accept any criticism and where such criticism can cost a sentence in a prison), opened an opportunity for Timur to develop himself also as a visual multimedia artist, producing video installations for independent theatre performances and commercial videos. In 2012 Timur moved to Moscow to work as a photo editor for Russian news media Lenta.ru where for almost three years he worked with top media professionals. In 2015 Timur started to cover social injustice in Uzbekistan, including covering forced labor and cotton slavery.
Elyor Nematov (UZ/KG, Nikon NOOR Almaty Masterclass alumnus)
Elyor Nematov, was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan and currently works as a freelance photojournalist, along with conducting documentary photography workshops that train students to produce stories relevant to Central Asia. Previously, he worked as photo editor, photographer and reporter for magazines in Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Elyor has participated in many national and international exhibitions. His first personal project and book ‘Children of Bukhara’ was presented in Tashkent in 2008. In 2012, Elyor received a grant from the Open Society Foundation’s Documentary Photography Project and started his project, ‘I AM A FOREIGNER’ on labor migration from Central Asia with mentorship from Yuri Kozyrev. In 2013 Elyor was a finalist for OSI Foundation’s Audience Engagement Grant. In 2014-2015 he was a Getty Images Reportage Emerging Talent, becoming a contributor for Getty Images in 2015. The same year, he published his project, ‘Father Comes Tomorrow,’ the second chapter of his work on labor migration from Central Asia to Russia. In 2016 Elyor was commissioned by UNwomen for his documentary project ‘Women’s Nature’, covering gender equality and women’s right in Kyrgyzstan. He also launched a new project called Unbreakable Waves in California, USA.
Daria Tuminas (RU, Nikon NOOR Saint Petersburg Masterclass alumna)
Daria Tuminas is a freelance researcher, photographer, and a curator. In 2011, Tuminas graduated from Leiden University’s MA program Film and Photographic Studies with a thesis questioning narrative in photography. In 2012-2014, she was co-organizing a yearly program ‘Dutch Photography Experience’ which included a series of educational events in St. Petersburg as well as an exhibition on Dutch photobooks ‘Undercover’ at the Museum of Contemporary art. The show got a silver prize at European Design Award. In 2014 Daria continued with the next photobook related project – ‘Reading a Photobook’, taking place at the Gallery of Printing in St. Petersburg and consisting of an exhibition, an educational program and a competition on photobook review writing. In 2017, she was a guest editor of The PhotoBook Review (Aperture) issue No 12. Currently she is woking on organising Unseen Book Market, writes for a number of media and teaches photography related courses at Webster University Leiden and FotoFactory Amsterdam.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Key Dates
Workshop: 12-15 October 2017
Working period & online sessions: August – September 2017
Deadline to apply: 2 July 2017, 23:59 CET
Notification of selection: 21 July 2017
August – September 2017: Working Period
Selected participants are coached and mentored by NOOR photographers, alumni and education team while they work on and shoot their own photo stories:
- 1 August 2017 (in Almaty or online)
Soros Foundation Kazakhstan introduces their field of work on important social, environmental and health issues in Kazakhstan. This can be inspiration or a starting-off point for participants to choose or further develop the topic for the photo story they will shoot before October.
- 3 August (online)
Online tutorial from tutors Tanya and Sebastián on documentary story concepts and planning for work in the field. The tutors will advise participants on important considerations and steps for moving forward with a photo story.
- 10 August (online)
Online brainstorm and coaching session between participants and NOOR alumni coaches during which participants’ story ideas are discussed and refined.
- August – September (in the field and online)
Participants shoot on their story and can reach out to their coach for advice.
- 10 September (online)
Participants send their stories to Tanya and Sebastián for review and receive feedback from these tutors to move forward in their final month of shooting and refining their stories.
12-15 October, Almaty: Workshop
Participants and tutors come together in Almaty to work on editing and presenting participants’ visual stories. During the four-day workshop the participants can look forward to intensive communication and exchange with NOOR photographers and their peers in the form of tutor presentations, one on one reviews, group review and editing sessions.
© Maarten de Kok, Nikon NOOR Academy Workshop in Amsterdam
DETAILS
This program is free of charge and includes daily lunch and a welcome dinner during the workshop in Almaty. For participants residing outside of Almaty, return travel and accommodation in Almaty is also covered.
REQUIREMENTS
- Basic experience in photography (especially photojournalism and documentary photography)
- English or Russian fluency (the workshop will be conducted in English with translation to Russian)
- Good technical understanding of your camera equipment
TO APPLY
- Complete the Application Form, including your motivation (200 words maximum), relevant work experience (200 words maximum), relevant education experience (200 words maximum) & one to three photo story ideas (200 words maximum)
- The form will also prompt you to submit an image portfolio which must be submitted as a PDF and include the following:
- At least one photo story (minimum 8 images, maximum 20 images)
- No more than 8 single images (images which are not part of a photo story)
- All images should be accompanied by a short caption including the date the photo was made
- For any photo story, please include a title and short introduction
For questions please contact:
Soros Foundation Kazakhstan
Aliya Sharipbayeva
Media Program Coordinator
Mob.: +7 8 771 990 7475
Tel.: +7 727 2503 811, 258 89 83 (#107)
E-mail: asharipbayeva@soros.kz
NOOR Education
+31 20 6060 780
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sebastian liste for stern
For Stern, Sebastian Liste covered the story on the community police in the small town Xaltianguis in Mexico.
pep bonet's story in huck magazine
Pep Bonet's story on the heavy metal scene of Botswana has been published in Huck Magazine.