Our July Monthly Newsletter is out now, so make sure to check out the latest activities and opportunities to engage with us here!
Pep Bonet | HELLBANGERS trailer premiering at WACKEN Open Air Festival
Pep Bonet's latest feature documentary HELLBANGERS will be premiering at the largest heavy metal music festival, WACKEN Open Air Festival.
Kadir van Lohuizen | Rising Tide at the Maritime Museum
Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term project on the sea level rise will be exhibited at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 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.
“I have been looking at the global consequences of rising sea levels caused by climate change. 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.”
© Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Date: October 4, 2019—May 10, 2020
Location: Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Benedicte Kurzen & Sanne De Wilde | Land of Ibeji at the 2019 World Press Photo Exhibition in Montreal, Canada
From August 28th to September 29th, the travelling exhibition of the World Press Photo Exhibition arrives to Montreal, Canada. Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen will be there for the exhibition opening where they'll showcase their project "Land of Ibeji" by NOOR, that was made possible with the Nikon European Ambassador Grant.
© Esther de Jongh
Yuri Kozyrev & Kadir van Lohuizen | Arctic: New Frontier featured in Geo Germany and Le Figaro
The photographic project "Arctic: New Frontier" by NOOR visual-storytellers Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev was featured in Geo Germany and Le Figaro magazine.
© Kadir van Lohuizen
Kadir van Lohuizen | Member of the jury at the Slovak Press Photo photojournalism contest
NOOR's Kadir van Lohuizen is a member of the jury for the 8th edition of the SLOVAK PRESS PHOTO photojournalism contest. SLOVAK PRESS PHOTO is a contest and a subsequent photo exhibition presenting an independent and authentic visual testimony of life, as seen by journalists from Slovakia and Eastern Europe.
Bénédicte Kurzen & Sanne De Wilde | Land of Ibeji winners of the 2019 Voies Off Awards
The project "Land of Ibeji" by Bénédicte Kurzen & Sanne De Wilde won the 2019 Voies Off Awards. The Voies Off Festival gathers a selection of exhibitions and independent photographic initiatives that blossom in Arles every year for the Rencontres d'Arles.
© Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen
Nikon-NOOR Academy | Bulgaria Masterclass Overview
Between July 14 to July 18, 2019, the Nikon-NOOR Academy held the Masterclass at PhotoSynthesis in Sofia, Bulgaria. This masterclass launched the Nikon-NOOR Academy in 2019, which will later take place in Spain and Austria.
© Mihaela Aroyo
Participants
Fifteen young visual storytellers gathered for an inspiring four days of learning and sharing with NOOR photographers.
© Mihaela Aroyo / Jodi Hilton / Marina Byanova / Vladimir Zivojinovic
Tutors
Three NOOR visual-storytellers taught the 2019 Nikon-NOOR Academy in Bulgaria. The masterclass was moderated by NOOR Digital Director Pierre Mohamed-Petit.
Bénédicte Kurzen
Nina Berman
Kadir van Lohuizen
Do you want to be part of the long Nikon-NOOR Academy list of alumnus? Apply for our Masterclasses in Spain and Austria:
Nina Berman | Q&A in Nikon UK's "Stories To Be Told"
For Nikon Ambassador and NOOR visual-storyteller Nina Berman answered questions about her project on eating competitions in the US for Nikon UK's Stories To Be Told.
© Nina Berman / NOOR
“We’re consuming ourselves to the point of suffocation and for some reason we see this as entertaining.”
Bénédicte Kurzen & Sanne De Wilde | Land of Ibeji featured in De Volkskrant and Culture Trip
The photographic project "Land of Ibeji" by NOOR visual-storytellers Sanne De Wilde and Benedicte Kurzen was featured in De Volkskrant and Culture Trip magazine's "The Gender and Identity" Issue, which launched on 4 July. The magazine is available at Tube and train stations in London, airports, hotels, cafés and cultural hubs in London and other major UK cities.
© Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen