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!

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.

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.”

kadir van lohuizen's interview and photos in doc! magazine

Photos from Kadir van Lohuizen's Via Panam project, along with an exhaustive interview, were recently published in doc! magazine.

sebastian liste on the trans-amazonian highway for geo france

In early 2015 Sebastian Liste traveled along the Trans-Amazonian highway between Brazil and Peru for Geo France. The highway is the first to connect the Atlantic side to the Pacific side of South America as landscapes and ways of living change along the way. 

kadir van lohuizen's rising sealevels in sunday times magazine

The Sunday Times Magazine published Kadir van Lohuizen's extensive project about sea levels rising around the world.  Kadir asks, "How fast is it going? It is alarming that past figures appear to have been too conservative and that humanity should start preparing for the biggest displacement of mankind in known history. As people in all of the world’s regions become displaced at ever growing scales, the biggest question is: Where will they go?"

See more of the Rising Sea Levels project, which spans eight countries on our website here.

kadir van lohuizen | rising sea levels published in internazionale

See more of Kadir's extensive Rising Sea Levels project here.

kadir van lohuizen's tedx talk: 'migration in the americas'

NOOR photographer Kadir van Lohuizen was invited to present a talk about his project Via Pan Am: Migration In The Americas at TEDxMaastricht. In the spirit of the TED concept of ideas worth spreading, Kadir shared his experiences creating the Via PanAm project, in which he traveled from Chile to Alaska, covering 15 countries along the Pan-American Highway, to visually investigate migration in the Americas.

Watch the talk here

 

rising sea levels in geo france

Today, no one any longer doubts that glaciers the world over are retreating, and even more worryingly that Greenland and Antartica are melting at an increasing pace. The question: how fast is it going? It is alarming that past figures appear to have been too conservative and humanity should start preparing for the biggest displacement of mankind in known history. As people in all of the world’s regions become displaced at ever growing scales, the biggest question is: where will they go?

For one and half year Kadir van Lohuizen has been looking at the global consequences of rising sea levels caused by climate change. He traveled to Kiribati, Fiji, the Carteret Atoll in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, the Guna Yala coastline in Panama, the United Kingdom and the United States. In these different regions Kadir not only looked at the areas that are affected or will be affected, but also where people will likely have to relocate to. Coastal erosion, inundation, worse and more frequent coastal surges and contamination of drinking water mean increasingly that people have to flee their homes and lands in a growing number of locales across the world. The human costs of these movements are dramatic in the extreme. The Rising Sea Levels project is designed to highlight both the immense complexities associated with in-island and inter-island/country movement, as well as the specific human rights implications involved with such involuntary movements.

This month Geo France published this important work in an extensive feature. Have a look at some of the pages here below:

 

kadir van lohuizen 'ali & laila' exhibition

Last week NOOR photographer Kadir van Lohuizen's exhibition 'Ali & Laila, An Amsterdam Family History' exhibition opened at the Amsterdam museum. The exhibition portrays the Dutch-Moroccan Rharib family from Amsterdam East.

In 1993, Kadir met the family for the first time and spent some time with father Ali, mother Laila and their five children. Kadir photographed them in their daily life and followed Laila and her husband to Morocco during their holidays to their home country.

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Final goodbye before the annual return to Morocco. Hamza says goodbye to his uncle.  Amsterdam, 1993

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Nora, Fatima and Farida in the courtyard of the house where Laila was born. Amsterdam, 1993

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In 2013, 20 years later, Kadir was visiting a friend in the hospital when he bumped into a woman who recognized the photographer from her childhood. At first, Kadir did not recognize Nora, the youngest daughter of the Rharib family, as she had become a young woman and was herself now a mother. Nora was there at the hospital because her father Ali was ill from Alzheimers. Nora told Kadir. "Don't you recognize me? "We need you to come," she said simply. "My father is going to die."

Kadir and the Rharib family watch the multimedia installation at the 'Ali & Laila' exhibition.

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The multimedia installation at the 'Ali & Laila' exhibition.

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Once again the Rharib family invited Kadir into their lives and he soon joined them, as he did 20 years earlier, to Marroco. Kadir wondered what had changed in the meantime. Did the Rharib family found their place in Dutch society? How had the years in Amsterdam shaped their identity? Kadir documented how their lives had developed. Through this extended family portrait, the exhibit 'Ali & Laila' explores questions of identity, culture & integration in the Netherlands.

The exhibition runs until 8 March 2015 at the Amsterdam Museum.
More info: http://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/kadir-van-lohuizen

Tune in!

Kadir was a guest on the Dutch radio show 'Nooit Meer Slapen'. In the program he talks about the exhibition and his work as a photojournalist. You can listen to the show online (in Dutch) here.

Photos © Johannes De Bruycker