NOOR is a collective uniting a select group of highly accomplished visual storytellers, photojournalists, film-makers, writers, artists, using photos, films, words and sounds to document, investigate, and witness our world.
Since its establishment in 2007, as both a photo agency and foundation, the international roster of NOOR’s accomplished and award-winning member photographers have documented civil and political unrest, environmental issues, war, famine, and natural disasters throughout the globe. It is an abiding commitment to the fundamental power of photography to bear witness to the struggle for human rights and social justice that form the principles of NOOR.
NOOR – an Arabic word meaning light – seeks to contribute to a growing understanding of the world by producing independent visual reports that stimulate positive social change and impact views on issues of global concern.
NOOR, headquartered in Amsterdam, is made up of thirteen photographers from eleven different countries: Nina Berman, Andrea Bruce, Stanley Greene and Jon Lowenstein (USA), Pep Bonet and Sebastián Liste (Spain), Bénédicte Kurzen (France), Yuri Kozyrev (Russia), Francesco Zizola (Italy), Alixandra Fazzina (UK), Kadir van Lohuizen (the Netherlands), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan) and Robin Hammond (New Zealand). The NOOR photographers produce in-depth photo-essays and pursue longer-term projects. They believe that some things simply need to be seen, and unite their individual visions to facilitate this.
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS
