PROJECTS SUPPORTED
NOOR's documentary photographers collaborate on group projects to highlight issues of global importance. Investigative projects have included 'Consequences' on climate change, 'Food For Thought' on food supply and waste, 'The New Brazil' on the country's economic boom, 'Modern Day Slavery' and ‘Light on Africa’.
Consequences
'Consequences' focuses on climate change issues due to the rise of global temperatures. As a multi-year group project it was exhibited during the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009, where NOOR photographers participated in a panel discussion with international thought leaders and policy makers.
On top of the world, pleasure seekers enjoy seemingly death defying rides 1000 feet above the Las Vegas metropolis - Photographer: Nina Berman - Camera: Nikon D700 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Portrait of a miner on his way out of work at 850 meters under earth. Health and life of miners are often at risk - Photographer: Pep Bonet - Camera: Nikon D3 - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
A small speed boats moves through two icebergs heading towards Uummannaq - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D3 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Yamal Peninsula, North West Siberia, Russia: Three Nenet families live on the tundra in a reindeer-skin tents or chums; the group has around 600 reindeer - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D3 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
The family tries to use the mobile phones - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D3 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
A view of the Athabasca River from the lodge at Fort Chipewyan. Water is an integral part of life for everyone in the region. It's vital for the indigenous communities and also vital for the oil sands companies because they use water to separate the sand from the oil when they make crude oil - Photographer: Jon Lowenstein - Camera: Nikon D700 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 35mm f/2D
Brazil’s Range war - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: D3S - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
Gaza Water Scarcity - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon D3S - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
Built on an island that rises a mere metre above sea level, Malé is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Nearly 104,000 people cram on 5,798 square meters. The capital city reached the peak of its expansion through the reclamation of its coastal zone in all directions beyond the coral reef - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D700 - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
Solutions
Following up on 'Consequences', 'Solutions' looks at how to combat climate change and focuses on those seeking a more sustainable way of life. Finalised in 2010, this group project covers human stories about alternative power sources, renewable energy and methods of coping with rising temperatures.
Danise Infante, a high school student, rows a boat she helped build, in the Bronx River. She built the boat at an after school program called "Rocking the Boat," a program that teaches high school students how to build boats and teach the public about the Bronx River. Danise says her experience has helped turn her into an environmental activist - Photographer: Nina Berman - Camera: Nikon D3S - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Iceland. The blue lagoon is known as a therapeutic bathing pool. The lagoon has proven health benefits. Scientists say bathing in the lagoon has positive effects on psoriasis and eczema. The lagoon is a very popular tourist attraction, mainly because of the many health benefits - Photographer: Pep Bonet - Camera: Nikon D3X - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G
Fishing on Lake Victoria with solar power. Nyachebe fishermen coming back home after a night of fishing - Photographer: Stanley Greene - Camera: Nikon D3S - Lens: AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Siberian Lakota people. Mato the Bear at his horse farm up in an Altai village rode horses on perfect hand-made Lakota style saddles. Mato’s goal is to revive horse farming and build up a big private rancho in his Cherga village - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D3 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.4G ED
An Organopunico just outside of Havana. The majority of the labor at these small-scale, organic farms is done manually. The Organopunicos are a system of urban organic gardens in Cuba. They provide access to job opportunities, a fresh food supply to the community, neighborhood improvement and beautification of urban areas - Photographer: Jon Lowenstein - Camera: D700 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8D
Solutions, wind energy in China. Zhao Shoushan is a herdsman in Wulanyiligen. Nowadays they live between the windmills. They have 600 sheep and goats. He herds them by motorcycle - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon D700 - Lens: 20mm f/2.8 NIKKOR
Usina Salgado, Pernambuco, Brazil. October 2010. A cane cutter is working with inadequate safety equipment in a field previously burned to make hand cutting easier. Low health and safety standards are typical of companies that keep workers under a situation comparable to slavery - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D700 - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
The new Brazil
As a country in rapid transition, 'The New Brazil' documents a complex modern society in a rising economic boom. NOOR's group project creates an eyewitness record of the many faces of this nation of immense natural resources and vibrant multiculturalism, while its influence on the world stage grows.
A football match is held in a Rio de Janeiro favela for girls - Photographer: Andrea Bruce - Camera: Nikon D750 -Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G
Salvador da Bahia: "Fat Tuesday" dancing in the streets. Local residents enjoy sharing their exotic dancing and music skills with tourists - Photographer: Stanley Greene - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Belo Monte construction site, Altamira Brazil. On Tuesday 9 October 2012, around 80 warriors in full war paint and armed with bows and arrows, clubs and lances occupied a construction site for the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon in Brazil - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: D800 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 28mm f/2.8D
The Xikrin village "Pot Crô" on the Rio Bacaja. There are 27 families living there. Bebeto XikrÌn is the top leader (of three). Bebeto's father was one of the founders of the village. The elder people have recently left the place because they did not like the new developments (generators etc.). Bebeto said that when the dam is finished, the river Bacaja will dry out - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G
Favela Chapadao is in the northern poor flatlands of Rio. This morning the elite troops of the military police raided the favela in search of one of the drug lords. The military police patrols the streets using an armored vehicle called a 'Caveirao' (big skull) - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G
Rio de Janeiro as seen from a helicopter. The statue of Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) lies atop Corcovado mountain, overlooking the city and the oceanic bay in front - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G
Brazil's New Middle Class - Milton, 29, Ana Paola, 27, and their two children enjoy a 3D afternoon show of the film Transformers 3. Milton is a lawyer and lives with his family in the Complexo do Alemão, a cluster of favelas in northern Rio de Janeiro and home to approximately 300 thousand people - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G
A woman buys a dress at a fancy neighborhood in the Jardins neighborhood in Sao Paulo. Oscar Freire street is famous for its fancy stores that attract rich people to come and shop. In 2014, the city plans to open a subway station in an effort to give better access to the neighborhood.This will allow public access for more of the people who work in the neighborhood – Photographer: Jon Lowenstein
Food for thought
“Food For Thought” examines the supply chain and food waste around the globe, including cultural anomalies like eating competitions in the US, where participants gorge to win prizes. It reports on movements to cut back on the waste of food, not just as an economic issue but as one of sustainability.
Wingbowl, Ramada Center - Fishkill New York, $1000 prize for the person who eats the most wings in 2 minutes - Photographer: Nina Berman - Camera: Nikon D800E - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Gundenga, India. November 13, 2013: Villagers from Gundenga react to the local police as well as moneylenders who came to the funeral of Bhaskar Amgoth who committed suicide after two years of failed cotton crops and mounting debts - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Andhra Pradesh, India. November, 21, 2013: Ilaiah Tatikonda separates the rice from the shaft in his field. He said last year his harvest was good, but this year the rains were too harsh - Photographer: Andrea Bruce - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Akhila Balamani (12) works in the cotton fields with her mother and sister to help repay her father's debts. Their father committed suicide because of the farming debts he incurred - Photographer: Andrea Bruce - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
According to the centers for disease control and prevention about one third of Americans are obese, including twelve and half million children and adolescents. New York and California have the highest percentages, and no states nationwide are under 20% - Photographer: Stanley Greene - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
Getting fat from having and making bad food choices - Photographer: Stanley Greene - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: 35mm f/1.4 NIKKOR
High tech farms in Holland - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
High tech farms in Holland - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Yurun's factory in Lianyungang, northern Jiangsu province. Lianyungang Furun Food Company Limited is an enterprise that combines pig breeding, slaughtering, processing, freezing and sales functions. It's a modern large scale slaughtering and processing facility. Its total number of staff is around 500 - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Slaughter house and meat processing - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Lianyungang in northern Jiangsu province. Street scene - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 35mm f/2D
Food Waste Project. Dinnington, UK: 20 March 2014.This packaged broccoli is short dated but it is still perfectly edible and is sold by Approved Food ltd, the largest online retailer of short dated and residual stock food and drinks - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Food Waste project. Rome, Italy. 3 April 2014. This carrot may not look unblemished but is perfectly edible. It was grown by one of the organic farms selling their products through Zolle, a food distribution enterprise that directly connects customers to local producers and promotes organic farming - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Food Waste Project. Copenhagen, Denmark. 15 March 2014. This potato pie was prepared by using food products discarded by their producers and distributors, and donated to Rub&Stub, a non-profit restaurant that fights food waste by using only surplus goods from the food industry to prepare its dishes - Photographer: Francesco Zizola - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF-S VR Micro-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
Modern day Slavery
With 'Modern Day Slavery', NOOR photographers delve into the dark heart of human trafficking for slavery. This group project raises awareness and emphasises the urgency of an issue that affects an estimated 20.9 million people - 27% of whom are children - in countries all around the globe.
A street scene in Tenancingo, a town notorious for sending girls and women north in human trafficking schemes - Photographer: Nina Berman - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4D
Richard Huntly and John Bonner get their first look at the now abandoned cottages where they were housed while doing slave labor at what was once the Florida School for Boys. The institution opened in 1901 and was shut down in 2011 amid repeated scandals and reports of severe brutality and slave labor. Survivors of the camp, including five black men, revisited the grounds and for the first time publicly told their stories - Photographer: Nina Berman - Camera: Nikon D800 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4D
Rasel is eleven years old and works at a brick factory. His work entails shifting and carting sand and mud from one place to another, as well as stacking bricks. On a good day he can earn up to 130 Taka a day. Rasel is forced to work to help support his family. He is not able to go to school. Although the law prohibits child labour, the practice is consistent throughout the region. (Please note all the real names of the children is this story have been changed to protect their identity) - Photographer: Pep Bonet - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Their work is to stack bricks: for every 1000 bricks stacked, they get 20 Taka. In a good day of work they can earn up to 100 Taka (approx. 1 USD). Many children are forced to work to help support their families - Photographer: Pep Bonet - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF NIKKOR 28mm f/1.4D
Child Labor and Exploitation in Bangladesh - Camera: Nikon D4 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G
Romania's Disappearing Girls - Photographer: Andrea Bruce - Camera: Nikon D810 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Romania's Disappearing Girls - Photographer: Andrea Bruce - Camera: Nikon D810 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
Modern Day slavery, sugarcane in the Dominican Republic - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon Df - Lens: AF-S ZOOM-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Modern Day slavery, sugarcane in the Dominican Republic. A child in Batey 7 - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon Df - Lens: AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Victims of forced labor in the United States – Photographer: Jon Lowenstein
Light on Africa
“NOOR on Africa” means “Light On Africa”. It offers a new visual dialogue on the continent, questioning the way stories are made and told. Portraits of Africa were created through stories of political and social expression in Tunisia, South Sudan, Ghana, Mozambique, Burkina Faso and Botswana.
The Hell bangers of Botswana. I work as a security guard, I started listening to heavy metal in 2008, I liked the way the metal heads dressed and behaved so I started associating myself with them and I became a rocker, I like Skinflint, I’m new in the Industry - Photographer: Pep Bonet - Camera: Nikon D810 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 58mm f/1.4G
Tunis, Tunisia, January 2016. Tunisians rallied on the avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Tunisian revolution - Photographer: Yuri Kozyrev - Camera: Nikon D810
The Holy Trinity Peace Village was initiated in 1997 with a demonstration farm called Kuron in the village of Kuron a diocese in the southeastern part of the South Sudan - Photographer: Stanley Greene - Camera: Nikon Df - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
Land grabbing, a result of the extractive industry in Mozambique. Kids play at the beach of Nacala - Photographer: Kadir van Lohuizen - Camera: Nikon Df - Lens: AF-S Zoom-NIKKOR 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
Members of Le Balai Citoyen from the city of Poutenga, walk through the city shouting slogans for a clean and transparent election. Burkina Faso is holding its first genuine democratic elections on 29 November 2015, and the Le Balail Citoyen movement, has been key in the struggle to get the nation to this point - Photographer: Asim Rafiqui - Camera: Nikon D810 - Lens: AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G ED
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