Michael Bloomberg and "Stop & Frisk" by Nina Berman

Candidate for the Democratic Party nomination Michael Bloomberg has been under attack from his past actions as mayor of New York City, especially for enforcing the "Stop and Frisk" policy he put in place. ​

​Nina Berman has been documenting NYPD's Stop and Frisk since 2011: "You could spend many nights on neighborhood cop-watch patrols and never see stop-and-frisks, so I looked for other things, too: the anger and outrage and sense of humiliation long after the stop-and-frisk ends. People I met saw stop-and-frisk as part of a broader pattern of police harassment and violence."

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Chibok Schoolgirls by Bénédicte Kurzen & Nina Strochlic

Six years ago, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls. Where are they now? The 'Chibok girls’ kidnapping sparked international outrage. More than a hundred are still missing. Today the survivors are trying to rebuild their lives. Bénédicte Kurzen was on assignment for National Geographic

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After Us the Deluge in New York City

Kadir van Lohuizen's long-term project on the sea level rise Rising Tide will be exhibited in New York City, at the Museum of City of New York. Rising sea levels affect us all. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Rising Tide presents works by Dutch documentary photographer Kadir van Lohuizen that illustrate the dramatic consequences of the climate crisis across the world through photographs, video, drone images, and sound. Experience the effects of rising sea levels in Greenland, Bangladesh, Papua-New Guinea, Kiribati, Fiji, the Netherlands, the U.K., Marshall Islands, Jakarta, Panama, Miami, and in New York.

Kadir van Lohuizen at Columbia Journalism School

Kadir van Lohuizen is a 2020 Columbia Journalism School's visiting fellow and will be screening and talking about his work After Us The Deluge, followed by a Q&A at the school, Thursday, February 27th, at 6pm.

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After Us The Deluge by Kadir van Lohuizen

"After Us The Deluge" looks at the human consequences of the rising sea level. Due to the climate crisis, the glaciers all over the world are retreating and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an alarming pace. The future human cost of rising sea levels are dramatic. The entire country of Kiribati, for example, will have to relocate, while it is estimated that in Bangladesh about 50 million people will need to move from the delta region by 2050. Nobody knows where they will go. The east coast of the USA is experiencing sea level rise which is three-times higher than the global average. It is predicted that major centres such as the Miami beach area will need to be evacuated by 2060.

"After Us The Deluge" provides vivid visual coverage of how the climate crisis is already affecting places where people live, Greenland with its melting glaciers, Kiribati, Fiji, the Carteret islands in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, the Guna Yala archipelago in Panama, the United Kingdom, Jakarta, the Marshall islands, the Netherlands and the United States.

Kadir van Lohuizen will be giving a keynote lecture at Princeton University's Humanities Council, on February 19th.

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

Defining Love by Stanley Greene

The first thing you miss once a loved one has passed away is their voice. In 2016, Pep Bonet recorded Stanley Greene talk about his life, his experiences working as a photographer, but also his thoughts and vision about our world.

On Valentine’s Day, but also Stanley’s birthday, we’d like to share with you all what he defined as Love.

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Yuri Kozyrev | Featured in DeVolkskrant

For DeVolkskrant, Yuri Kozyrev photographed the polar town of Pevek, home to the Akademik Lomonosov, the first floating nuclear power plant in the world. Russian President Putin has ordered a whole series of floating power stations to support Russia's expansion into the Arctic.

Tanya Habjouqa | Featured in NPR

Women Take A New Lead In Talmud Study In Israel

Tanya Habjouqa captured the custom called Daf Yomi, Hebrew for "daily page," which involves reading a page a day of the Talmud. Orthodox women in Israel held their own large-scale Talmud celebration for the first time this year.

Chinese Uyghurs fleeing Xinjiang province by Yuri Kozyrev

As of 2018, it was estimated that the Chinese authorities may have detained hundreds of thousands of Muslim Chinese Uyghurs in so-called "reeducation camps". Most people in the camps have never been charged with crimes and have no legal avenues to challenge their detentions. Often, their only crime is being Muslim, human rights groups say, adding that many Uighurs have been labeled as extremists simply for practicing their religion.

Yuri Kozyrev portrayed the Chinese Uyghurs that managed to flee to countries bordering the Xinjiang province.

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NOOR Film at the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

As part of NOOR's year long collaboration with the Musée de la Photographie, Nina Berman and Jon Lowenstein will be showing their respective films The Triumph of the Shill and Lincoln's Promise in the museum's "Boite Noir", from January 25th to May 5th