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.

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.

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.

Francesco Zizola | Mare Omnis - Exhibition

Photo by Francesco Zizola / NOOR

Curated by Sara Alberani, Francesco Zizola's latest exhibition "Mare Omnis" is still on show until November 4th, exploring the relationship between nature and mankind, in Ferrara, Italy. Make sure to discover this unprecedented work!

Documenting Diversity with Nina Berman, Lola Flash, and Ruddy Roye

Documenting Diversity: Staying Woke and Making Pictures A Panel Discussion with photographers Nina Berman, Lola Flash, and Ruddy Roye

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 6:30-8:30 pm NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway, New York, NY Dean's Conference Room, 12th Floor

This event is co-sponsored with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging.

How do photographers authentically and confidently approach image-making when the photographer, audience, and subjects can be from diverse racial, class, and gender origins? How do photographers present their subjects in a way that ensures dignity, empowerment and inclusion? How do documentary photographers stay focused on issues that raise awareness of the social and political environment and get involved to influence the outcomes of these situations?

Presentations and panel discussion followed by a reception. Nina Berman will be signing copies of “An Autobiography of Miss Wish.”

The Uncanny projected at the ICP

Photo by Leonard Pongo / NOOR

Leonard Pongo's long-term project The Uncanny long-term photography project shot in the D.R. Congo will be projected at the International Center of Photography (ICP).

During the day, The Uncanny can be viewed on monitors inside the ICP Museum and during evening hours, images are literally “projected” onto the windows of the ICP Museum; they can be viewed from the sidewalk outside the Museum and are most visible after sunset.

Kadir van Lohuizen x Wasteland: Closing Event

During the past three months, ten thousands of visitors visited the exhibition Wasteland by Kadir van Lohuizen at Overhoeks in Amsterdam North. This exhibition was part of the festival WeMakeThe.City.

On Sunday, September 23, we will close the project in Amsterdam together with its maker Kadir van Lohuizen, funders, sponsors, designers, builders, volunteers, production professionals as well as friends. Come and join us for this special evening!

UNSEEN Open Gallery Night: NOOR x Impact Doc

Photo by Tanya Habjouqa / NOOR

As part of the Unseen Open Gallery Night, iMPACT DOC will preopen its doors to the public in collaboration with NOOR and Transformations.

From 20.00 to 21.00 pm, we are organising a talk in which we will explore current transformations within the field of documentary photography, whilst also casting a glance at its future.

The speakers of this evening include Clément Saccomani (Managing Director, NOOR), Bas Vroege (Director, Paradox) and Sanne De Wilde (Photographer, NOOR).