Project Launch | Reconstruction of Identities

NOOR is excited to share the recently launched Reconstruction of Identities #RIO Project, a project aiming to promote and protect the richness of both national and European cultural heritage. The RIO Project will breathe life into small communities by stimulating cultural activities as an alternative communication method between locals and newcomers.

This project has been set up through close collaboration between Creative Europe, The Municipality of Savignano Sul Rubicone, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Ad Hoc, and NOOR.

To enhance communication between foreigners and locals within such communities, RIO project aims to organise a wide-ranging programme of talks, conferences, guided tours, and book-signings; it promotes the opening of artists’ residencies, the organisation and circulation of exhibitions, and the lending of artworks to other museums or institutions; it aims at providing young and amateur photographers with educational resources, activities and workshops.

Keep an eye on the RIO website or Instagram page for the latest news and updates!

Kadir van Lohuizen & Pole traveler Bernice Notenboom talk about the effects of the melting ice-caps in the Arctic

Dedicated to the Arctic and chaired by Jean Jouzel, and under the patronage of Minister Ségolène Royal, French Ambassador for the Arctic and Antarctic Poles, the 9th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award was awarded to Yuri Kozyrev and Kadir Van Lohuizen (NOOR). Their investigative photoreportage «Arctic: New Frontier» is a pioneering double expedition which explores the effects of climate change on the entire Arctic territory. They want to experience the dramatic transformation of natural landscapes and the demographics in the Arctic, and the impact of these changes on the lives of the region’s inhabitants.

With amongst others

• Kadir Van Lohuizen | Photographer and journalist
• Bernice Notenboom | Pole traveler
• Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr | Inupiaq artist

"The photos of Yuri Kozyrev and Kadir van Lohuizen are superb. Through them, from Siberia, Svalbard and Greenland to Canada and Alaska, we discover the Arctic of today, with its landscapes and wildlife that are drawing a growing number of tourists, as well as its populations who are exposed to extreme climates and who mine resources such as nickel and, increasingly, gas, oil and coal. Protecting the environment does not appear central to their activity, to put it mildly." —Jean Jouzel, climatologist, winner of the 2012 Vetlesen Award and co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Award as Director of the IPCC

The moderator of this event is Saccomani Clément.

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR for Carmignac Fondation

Tanya Habjouqa | SEVENTY YEARS OF SUFFOCATION with Amnesty International

Photo by Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR

2018 marks 70 years since the expulsion and displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes, villages and cities during the one-year conflict that created Israel in 1948. Since then, the Nakba (catastrophe), as it is known in Arabic to Palestinians, has been engraved in Palestinian collective consciousness as a story of relentless dispossession.

We are proud to share this new digital plateform where NOOR's Tanya Habjouqa collaborated together Amnesty International in producing this immersive photo-story on 70 years of Palestinian displacement.

TIME's top 100 photos of 2018

Photo by Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR for Carmignac Fondation

Yuri Kozyrev's & Kadir van Lohuizen's latest project, Arctic: New Frontier, is in TIME's top 100 photos of 2018. Their Arctic project is laureate of the 9th Prix Carmignac du photojournalisme.

Pep Bonet | Fel De La Terra

Pep Bonet will be screening his movie Fel De La Terra at the Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, December 4th, in Palma, Spain.

Talk with NOOR’s photographers Tanya Habjouqa, Jon Lowenstein, Léonard Pongo

Photo by Keystone

Keystone-SDA, NOOR Foundation and Nikon Europe invite to join for an evening with NOOR’s award-winning photographers Tanya Habjouqa (JO/US), Jon Lowenstein (US), Léonard Pongo (BE).

« Intimacy of place and the tools of telling »

NOOR photographers will share key insights used to develop personal projects and their unique paths through photography. They will share previously unseen work and explore how to move beyond a linear narrative. Join us for an evening conversation to transcend what has been strictly documentary into a new terrain of documentary photography by incorporating the humane, personal, and collaborative into the unexpected.

The conversation will be hosted in English by Agata Bar, Editorial Director at NOOR Images. Afterwards there will be the opportunity for personal conversations at the Daizy Bar.

Public event – Please register your participation by email marketing@keystone-sda.ch.

The three NOOR photographers will be in Zurich from 3 to 6 December, 2018 on occasion of an international Masterclass program, run by Keystone-SDA’s partner agency NOOR and graciously supported by Nikon Europe. Read more about the 2018 Nikon-NOOR Academy.

Alixandra Fazzina | Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today

Photo by Alixandra Fazzina/ NOOR

Alixandra Fazzina's RPS Hundred Heroines: Women in Photography Today Instagram takeover on their feed, where's she sharing some of her iconic works.

Kadir van Lohuizen | #BlackFriday The impact of waste to our planet

On America's most wasteful weekend, #BlackFriday, we look back at the impact of waste to our planet with Kadir van Lohuizen's project Wasteland in the Washington Post. The world generates at least 3.5 million tons of solid waste a day, 10 times the amount a century ago, according to World Bank researchers. On average, Americans throw away their own body weight in trash every month.

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

Pep Bonet | Breaking the Spanish Windsurf record at Lüderitz Speed Challenge

For the past 5 weeks, Nikon European Ambassador Pep Bonet was in Namibia at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge and broke the Spanish Windsurf record, 50,48 knots on 500 meters, and 8th place at the Lüderitz Challenge. He was sponsored by Nikon Europe to film his winning race with the latest Nikon Keymission 170, check out the video now!

Nina Berman | An Autobiography of Miss Wish shortlisted for the 2018 Aperture Paris Photo photobook award

We're proud to share that Nina Berman and Kimberly Stevens' book "An Autobiography of Miss Wish" has been shortlisted to the 2018 Aperture Paris Photo photobook award.