Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term project on the sea level rise "After Us The Deluge" will be exhibited in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from January 25th 2020.
Heba Khamis joins NOOR
We are proud to announce that Heba Khamis joins NOOR
From her series “Banned Beauty”
Egyptian visual researcher Heba Khamis' work concentrates on the sensitive, tabooed, social issues related to the body. In 2018 and 2019, her projects were awarded at the World Press Photo prize. Her work has been recognised as well with other international awards including the PHMuseum grant and the Ian Parry Scholarship award.
After graduating with a bachelor in painting, Heba Khamis had a career shift and worked as a photojournalist, covering the two revolutions in Egypt and it's aftermath. Currently, she is working on the topics of breast ironing in Cameroon, and transgenders in Egypt. Her latest series "Black Bird" uncovers stories of gay prostitution among straight refugees in Germany.
Through developing her storytelling visual language, she considers herself as a visual researcher after having working as a photojournalist, documentary photographer, and now as a storyteller. She carries the ethics of traditional documentary form with her, but believes the need to care further about the subjects while telling their stories. Beyond her usual photographic approach, she adds different elements and mediums belonging to the subjects to her stories.
Recently, she has been interested in art therapy, where she would like to involve the protagonists more, giving them the chance to express themselves and interact in telling their own story, by adding their drawings alongside her photographs.
Heba Khamis is based between Alexandria, Egypt and Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
From her series “Black Birds”
On joining the collective, Heba Khamis shares: "After many years of walking in this world and industry independently, today I am glad to part of a team of 18 individuals from all over the globe (14 photographers and 4 office staff) with different perspectives on life, to walk in hand with. We follow the same passion for storytelling and ethics . By joining the NOOR family, I believe we will inspire and feed from each other, deepening our understanding in telling meaningful stories. We will help each other to reach out and tell people’s stories that need to be told, and to share them with all those waiting to hear."
"It is a great pride that Heba joins NOOR. Her work, in addition to being visually fascinating, fills us with deep compassion for others. Her respectful approach is important and necessary. With Heba joining our collective supports further our mission and our will to tell, witness, and document issues of our time," shares NOOR Managing Director Clement Saccomani.
NOOR Author Tanya Habjouqa shares: "I had been following the work of Heba Khamis for years, with a curiosity for who this photographer was who seamlessly blended poetics and some of the more darker aspects of socio-politics and humanity. The work was brilliant, no doubt, but what took me even more aback was listening to her speech when she received her first World Press Photo award for Banned Beauty.
"She, of course, referenced to girls and women who let her into their lives so intimately, but mentioned her recently deceased father, reflecting how to make quality work , it can come at a personal cost. She had not made it back in time from on assignment to say a proper good by to her father before he passed. There was not a dry eye in the place, and Heba has that affect. In person, and in her work. A kindness and soulful quiet. That rare breed of humble. And then she did it again, a consecutive World Press Photo…from diverse locations that are not close to her home or reality, but again…so intimately and respectfully she captures it.
"She is not a one trick pony—but will continue to surprise and evolve and question our medium. And elevate the bar for all of us. An honor to have Heba in our NOOR Family."
Calabar Carnival festival by Bénédicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde
The Calabar Carnival festival starts every 1st of December and ends on the 31st of December in Nigeria and considered the cleanest, friendliest and best maintained state capital in the whole country. This year, NOOR photographers Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde covered the event which had as a theme "Africanism".
Bénédicte Kurzen and Sanne De WIlde / NOOR
"Grozny: Nine Cities" exhibited in Paris for Doctors Without Borders' 20th anniversary since its Peace Nobel Prize
"Grozny: Nine Cities", a project by Olga Kravets, Maria Morina and Oksana Yushko, curated by Anna Shpakova, will be exhibited on December 10th, 2019, in commemoration of the 20-year anniversary since Medecins Sans Frontiere won the Nobel Peace Prize. Olga Kravets will discuss about her photographs and do a guided visit.
Olga Kravets / NOOR
Nina Berman speaking at "Conversations on Conflict Photography" event in New York City
Nina Berman will talk at "Conversations on Conflict Photography" at the Bronx Documentary Center December 7 at 6pm in New York City with author and educator Dr. Lauren Walsh and photographer Spencer Platt.
Nina Berman / NOOR
#IdentityDialoguesEurope Call | Winner Announcement
© Ana Amado
The photo 'Fraternal socialist kiss between Lyudmila Brezhnev and Erica Honecker. 1979’ by Ana Amado has been the favourite of the audience of the EU co-funded project 'Reconstruction of Identities'.
The photo was pre-selected among other 3 finalists of the open call by the jury for its powerful recreation of a historical moment to point out the yet present imbalance between men and women when we speak of leadership positions.
The image will be exhibited in Copenhagen Photo Festival and SIFEST 2020. Until then, we encourage you to follow her work ‘Lideresas (Female Leaders)’ series, to which the winner image belongs to.
About Ana Amado
Ana Amado. Ferrol (Spain)
Photographer, architect and visual artist. Currently, she combines her work as a photographer with the teaching of photography in Madrid. Her work explores the interconnections between the various artistic manifestations, always seeking the approach of contemporary art to society. Recently, her photographic projects focus on topics of social content where architecture acts as a scenic background in the construction of identities and also on feminism and gender equality.
Her work has been awarded internationally and exhibited at the Venice Biennale, PhotoLondon, the Sony World Photography Awards, PhotoEspaña, the London Royal Academy of Arts, the International Festival Eme3 and Picasso Museum (Barcelona), the International Arts Prize “Obra Abierta”, the IV Viphoto Fair or the Granada Photo Festival, among others. More info: http://anaamado.com/
Benedicte Kurzen & Sanne De Wilde | "Land of Ibeji" wins award at Lianzhou Foto
NOOR photographers and Nikon Ambassadors Benedicte Kurzen and Sanne De Wilde won the jury prize in China at Lianzhou Foto for their series "Land of Ibeji". They showcased their photos as part of the “A Chance for the Unpredictable” exhibition.
Rising Tide by Kadir van Lohuizen at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam
Up until May 3, 2020, Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term project on the sea level rise "Rising Tide" will be exhibited at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The exhibition will display old and new work on the consequences of the rising sea levels. "Arctic: New Frontier" by Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev is also being exhibited with a newly produced 25 minute film on a 12 meter screen.
© Twycer / Maritime Museum
Nikon-NOOR Academy | Talk at El Observatorio in Barcelona
During the Nikon-NOOR Academy in Barcelona, visual-storytellers Tanya Habjouqa, Sebastian Liste, and Jon Lowenstein will talk at El Observatorio on November 13, 2019, at 7:30 P.M.
The discussion will focus on the distinct approaches and styles used by each photographer when addressing subjects with global effects, in very different parts of the world: Moderated by Jessica Murray, this event is free and open to the public. The talk will be in Spanish and English with translation.
© Tanya Habjouqa
Bénédicte Kurzen | Featured in Liberation
Benedicte Kurzen's project on oil and illegal refining of petroleum in the Nigeria Delta was featured in Libération.