NOOR photo agency

NOOR
Cooperative
Industry Photography
Founded 2007
Headquarters Amsterdam
Area served
 Worldwide
Products Photojournalism, photo agency, foundation
Website noorimages.com

NOOR is an international photo agency and foundation owned and directed by the member photographers under a cooperative model. It is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with photographers based worldwide.

The agency is known for producing independent visual reports that stimulate positive social change, and impact views on human rights and other issues of global concern.

History

NOOR Images was launched in 2007 at Visa pour l’Image festival by the former managing director Claudia Hinterseer and member photographers Pep Bonet, Stanley Greene, Yuri Kozyrev, Kadir van Lohuizen, Francesco Zizola and former members Jan Grarup, Samantha Appleton, Philip Blenkinsop and Jodi Bieber.

The agency was later enriched by the arrival of new members: Jon Lowenstein in 2008, Nina Berman in 2009, Alixandra Fazzina in 2010, and Andrea Bruce in 2011, Bénédicte Kurzen in 2013, Sebastián Liste and Asim Rafiqui in 2014.

As of August 2015, Clément Saccomani is the new managing director of the agency.

In March 2009, the NOOR Foundation launched its first masterclass in documentary photography in Lagos, inviting 15 African photojournalists hailing from seven different countries. Since then, the NOOR Foundation has organized workshops, masterclasses, seminars, lectures and other educational activities, in St Petersburg (2010), Bucharest (2011) Cairo (2011), Cape Town (2012), Tunis (2013), Bayeux (2013, 2015), Istanbul (2014), Belgrade (2015) and Amsterdam (2015).

NOOR works in close collaboration with educational organizations and professional photographers, all experienced teachers and lecturers in documentary photography.

Photographers

Name Nationality Member since
Stanley Greene  USA 2007
Kadir van Lohuizen  NED 2007
Pep Bonet  Majorca 2007
Yuri Kozyrev  RUS 2007
Francesco Zizola  Italy 2007
Jon Lowenstein  USA 2008
Nina Berman  USA 2009
Alixandra Fazzina  UK 2010
Andrea Bruce  USA 2011
Bénédicte Kurzen  France 2013
Sebastián Liste  Spain 2014
Asim Rafiqui  Pakistan 2014

Climate Change by NOOR

Climate Change by NOOR is a long-term group project that focuses on two issues. The first, ‘Consequences by NOOR’ is an eyewitness record of the devastating effects of climate change around the globe. Produced in the autumn of 2009, these visual reportages show not ‘what might happen’ in the future but what is happening right now, emphasizing the urgency of addressing the issues at stake.

NOOR continued the project in autumn 2010, with 'Solutions' a visual project investigating what is and what can be done to slow down or reverse climate change. This focuses on human stories about alternative power sources, renewable energies, and attempts to alleviate, adjust or cope with the rise of global temperatures, the biggest challenge our world has ever faced.

Urban Survivors by NOOR

In 2011, NOOR partnered with Doctors Without Borders to raise an awareness campaign on the living conditions in the urban settlements around the world.[1] The project has been executed in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Pakistan, Honduras and South Africa by seven NOOR photographers with the aim of casting a light on the challenges that overpopulation is setting up for the future.

The project resulted in the Urban Survivors[2] web documentary made by Darjeeling Productions featuring photo-films – the website was nominated for the 2012 Webby Awards – and a traveling photo exhibition.

The New Brazil by NOOR

The New Brazil[3] is a group project by NOOR photographers focusing on the fast development that Brazil is experiencing in recent years. Through a multifaceted approach, NOOR photographers put a spotlight on this growing and complex modern society, creating an eyewitness record of the many faces of the world’s fifth largest country, both geographically and in population count, and the seventh – and fastest growing – economic power on the planet.

The New Brazil has been produced by NOOR photographers in 2012 and consists of 8 different features.

Za'atari by NOOR

The Syrian war has created an unprecedented refugee crisis with millions of Syrians displaced. Nearly 100,000 refugees live on a stretch of land in northern Jordan at the Za’atari camp, now the second largest refugee camp in the world. Located 12 kilometers from the Syrian border, the camp opened with just 100 families in July 2012.

In December 2013 – January 2014, four NOOR photographers documented life at Za’atari. Around 100 of these photographs were then printed larger than life and pasted on 120 meters of the camp’s security walls as a way to humanize the architecture and give visitors and stakeholders an immediate impression of the people and life inside.

The Za’atari project was a collaboration between UNHCR, JEN, and produced by Nina Berman.

References

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  1. ↑ "urban survivors | NOOR". Noorimages.com. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  2. ↑ "Médecins Sans Frontières". Urban Survivors. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  3. ↑ "the new brazil | NOOR". Noorimages.com. 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  4. ↑ "Visa pour l'Image Perpignan 2016". Visapourlimage.com. 2015-09-13. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  5. ↑ "Noor, une nouvelle agence photo coopérative". LeMonde.fr. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  6. ↑ "awards the 2010 Nansen Refugee Award to Alixandra Fazzina". UNHCR. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  7. ↑ "Archives". Le Monde.fr. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  8. ↑ "Le cri des exilés". Polka Magazine. 2013-03-01. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  9. ↑ "The Katrina Story on Wheels - Video". TIME.com. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  10. ↑ "Photojournalist haunted by documenting African famine - Photos". Photoblog.nbcnews.com. 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  11. ↑ "Festival/photojournalisme: les Visas d'or". Lefigaro.fr. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  12. ↑ "Visa d'or pour Kadir van Lohuizen". LeMonde.fr. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  13. ↑ "Scenes from Yemen - Photo Essays". TIME. 2011-03-01. Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  14. ↑ "El lente a las migraciones en América". Elespectador.Com. Retrieved 2015-10-06.

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