NOOR photo agency
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| Cooperative | |
| Industry | Photography |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam |
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Area served
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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.
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,, and Tanya Habjouqa and Robin Hammond in 2016.
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).
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