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NOOR images is a platform that supports a global community of visual storytellers and educational initiatives.

At the heart of NOOR burns an inextinguishable fire fuelled by a passion to inspire action on the critical issues of our time through the power of visual storytelling. Since our founding in 2007, we have grown into a global collective of artists, storytellers, and visionaries who believe in the transformative impact of visual storytelling to create a fairer, more just place. As a global organisation, we collaborate with local talent and expand our educational programmes to learn from and contribute to diverse perspectives. Contact us at our Amsterdam headquarters to find out more.

01/09/2026

NOOR is deeply saddened by the passing of Jean-François Leroy, founder and director of the festival Visa Pour l'Image-Perpignan and a great supporter of photojournalism.

Visa pour l'Image and Jean-François have been instrumental in the careers of many of us. He, together with his team, and , among many others, played a key role when NOOR was founded at Visa pour l'Image back in 2007. He was a dear friend to NOOR and to our late Stanley Greene.

Symbolically, the festival started this week. We wish everyone strength in dealing with this immense loss.

Photo © Stephan Vanfleteren ()

25/08/2026

TENE PIA SEKU — OUR ISLAND, OUR FUTURE
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥?

Inspired by 'Rising Tide' by Kadir van Lohuizen, exhibition 'Tene Pia Seku' brings the conversation about climate and rising sea levels to Curaçao, through the perspective of the island itself.

This is the first exhibition presented by the Association of Museums and Heritage of Curaçao () and also marks the reopening of Habaai Art Gallery () under new ownership.

Created in collaboration with Terramar Museum Bonaire () and the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, the exhibition brings together perspectives from organisations and initiatives in Curaçao, including Museo di Kòrsou, Fundashon Museo Tula, NAAM, Children’s Museum Curaçao, Sea Turtle Conservation Curaçao, O’Blue, Aline Abdul and others.

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: Thursday, 27 August 2026, 19:30–21:30
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Habaai Art Gallery, Landhuis Habaai
Photo by Kadir van Lohuizen, 'After Us The Deluge': Children play on the beach, where sandbags have been placed to hold back the ocean at Temwaiku, a vulnerable village on South Tarawa in Kiribati. In 2021, waves washed away this bulwark and rolled inland, leaving behind flooded homes, salty soil, and tainted wells.

11/08/2026

Dispatches by NOOR | A Climate Story and an Interview with the Photographer Yuri Segalerba

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥?

As part of the second edition of Dispatches by NOOR, we interviewed Yuri Segalerba () about 'The Ascent of Temperatures', his visual story on the spread of dengue into Himalayan communities in Nepal.

Yuri spent three months on the ground in Nepal, following scientists, healthcare workers and communities experiencing the changing realities of a disease once largely associated with tropical lowlands. In our interview, he reflects on the questions behind the work, from climate change and traditional knowledge to trust, responsibility and the position of the photographer as a witness.

“For me, it is essential not to reduce anyone to the story they are living through. I relate to each person first as an individual, not as the subject of a narrative.”

He also speaks about the time and care required to build trust with the people he photographs, and why documentary photography can show what data alone cannot: adaptation, everyday negotiations, resilience and the human dimensions of a changing climate.

Read our interview with Yuri and discover 'The Ascent of Temperatures' via the link in our bio.

Captions: Photos and Story by Yuri Segalerba, Nepal, July and September 2025.
1) A vendor sells mosquito nets at the local market.
2) Amchi Khedup Loden Gurung packs Sowa Rigpa medicines in a clinic in Jomsom, Mustang.
3) Sheets drying in the sun in the courtyard of Pokhara Hospital.
4) A view of the Rolwaling Himal, Solukhumbu District, the Himalayas, Nepal.
5) Dr. Ishan Gautam shows Aedes larvae to students at Geetamata Secondary School during an awareness campaign.

14/07/2026

Dispatches by NOOR | A Climate Story: Dengue Fever Reaches Nepal’s Himalayas

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘴?

Climate change is reshaping the geography of disease. In Nepal, dengue fever is reaching high-altitude communities where the virus was virtually unknown until just a few years ago, creating new public health challenges in some of the country's most remote regions.

For the second edition of DISPATCHES by NOOR, we present "The Ascent of Temperatures", a visual story by Italian photojournalist Yuri Segalerba (). Photographed between July and September 2025, the project follows scientists studying mosquito adaptation, healthcare workers responding to new outbreaks, and communities living on the frontline of a changing climate.

At NOOR, we believe visual storytelling can help us better understand the human consequences of the climate crisis. Through DISPATCHES by NOOR, we share Yuri’s work with our community to encourage reflection and dialogue around the climate crisis.

Read the full story via the link in our bio.

Captions: Photos and Story by Yuri Segalerba, Nepal, July and September 2025.
1) Chandannath, 2,438m, Nepal’s highest town where Aedes mosquitoes have been detected.
2) Devi Kannya Katayata (33) breastfeeds her son Nehan Budha (2) under a mosquito net in their home in Chandannath, Jumla, 2,438 m.
3) Aedes aegypti specimens arranged and coded in an entomological case.
4) At Solukhumbu District Hospital, Dr Bijay Singh Kushwaha collects a blood sample
from a patient with suspected dengue for a rapid diagnostic test.
5) Lung-ta (Wind Horses) prayer flags flutter across the Himalayan sky.

30/06/2026

𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨

Stanley Greene was a founding member of NOOR Images. He passed away in Paris, France on 19 May 2017, but his legacy continues to shape how we understand visual storytelling today, with urgency, honesty and deep human care.

Inspired by his life and work, the Stanley Greene Foundation () has opened its Emerging Photographer Grant.

The grant offers $10,000 to visual storytellers at the beginning of their careers, supporting the development of impactful visual narratives. The programme places particular emphasis on photographers from underserved and diverse communities, expanding access to resources and opportunities to bring their stories to life.

More than a grant, it is an invitation to begin, to explore and to tell stories that matter.

Apply via the link in bio before 2 July.

𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁:
Stanley Greene: Portrait of an old man, Turkmenistan, Turkmenbashi, 1995.

20/06/2026

𝙊𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙜𝙚𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮, 𝙬𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙡𝙮.

In February 2018, photographer Alixandra Fazzina () met Yemeni refugees living in Hargeisa, Somaliland, after fleeing the war in Yemen.

Mohammed Abu Baker was 61 when he escaped Taiz after his home was destroyed by a bomb. Soon after arriving in Somaliland by boat, he suffered a stroke. Today, paralysed on the right side of his body and unable to be lifted into bed, he sleeps where he sits.

“All we saw in Yemen was death. Our friends died next to us in the street. I wanted to save my family. I had no plan; we just ran”.

Rashida fled Aden while pregnant. Trained as a dentist, she left behind her profession, her home and her daughter's father to find safety. When Alixandra photographed her, she was living with her two-year-old daughter Jannah in an old shop shared with other Yemeni women refugees.

“When the war started I was pregnant. After my daughter Jannah was born her safety was my priority. It was dangerous in Aden that I made my decision, separated from her father and fled”.

Their stories remind us that becoming a refugee is not an identity people choose. It is a consequence of circumstances that leave no safe alternative.

Today, more than ever, we are called to look beyond statistics and remember the individual lives, families and futures behind the word "refugee".

12/06/2026

Brazilian photojournalist Victor Moriyama (), based in São Paulo, covers South America and the Amazon rainforest. His work is rooted in a humanist approach and examines the violence embedded in social and environmental relations in Brazil. Agrarian conflicts, deforestation, the conservation of tropical forests and biodiversity, the genocide of Indigenous populations, and the acceleration of climate change are among the themes that have guided his work in recent years.

Victor has been named the 2026 Senior Animal Photojournalism Fellow by We Animals (), a photojournalism organisation that documents the lives of animals in human environments and uses visual storytelling to advance awareness and change.

As Senior Fellow, Victor will turn his lens to Brazil’s immense cattle industry. Nearly half of Brazil’s cattle herd is raised in the Amazon. His project will document the entire production chain, from irregular farms and pastures to slaughterhouses, transport routes, and global export markets.

But this is not only a story about industry. The project will also place cattle ranching within the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem and examine the expansion of cattle-ranching culture in the Brazilian Amazon.

We congratulate Victor and look forward to following this important work.

Photos by Victor Moriyama
Captions:
1) Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, July 2021 for The New York Times: Employees work in the production of leather at the company, Van Couros.
2) São Félix do Xingu, Pará, Brazil, January 2021 for Rainforest Foundation: Farmers and cowboys transport live cattle on their farm.
3) Xinguara, Pará, Brazil, January 2021 for Rainforest Foundation: Farmers from the São Félix do Xingu region take part in preparations for a cattle auction.
4) Rondônia, Brazil, July 2021 for The New York Times: Cowboys load cattle onto transport trucks at a farm inside the Jaci Paraná Extractive Reserve.
5) Rio Pardo, Rondônia, Brazil, September 2019 for The New York Times: Ibama brigade members fight a fire on a farm near Rio Pardo that spread into the Amazon rainforest.

05/06/2026

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
From cocoa farming in Côte d’Ivoire and sustainable aquaculture in Vietnam to the remarkable regeneration of a former coal-fired power plant site in South Africa, the exhibition '𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢-𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬' brings together three powerful photographic stories about communities shaping more sustainable futures.

Through the lenses of photographers Olivier Khouadiani, Thanh Hue, and Gulshan Khan, the exhibition explores how local knowledge, entrepreneurship, and collaboration can create lasting social and environmental impact.

𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Atrium City Hall, The Hague
𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬: 6–19 June 2026 (Free Entry)

We warmly invite you to visit and experience these inspiring stories from around the world.

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞:
https://atriumcityhall.nl/en/agenda/shared-horizons-stories-from-combi-tracks/

This exhibition was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and produced by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO).
The exhibition was realised by NOOR Images.
𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞: © Gulshan Khan, Grootvlei, South Africa, 24 June 2025
Part of Eskom’s land at the Grootvlei Power Station near Johannesburg, is to be used for Climate-Smart Horticulture to contribute in Just Transition.

19/05/2026

Emilia Martin () has opened her solo exhibition 'The Serpent’s Thread' at the festival in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Cairo resident of programme, selected by NOOR.

Curated by Eleonora Schianchi (), the project is inspired by Emilia Martin’s grandmother, a Polish countryside textile worker, and reflects on women’s histories and textile traditions. Blending documentation with fiction, Emilia’s work brings together stories of women makers whose voices and works were often overlooked, discarded, or forgotten.

The exhibition is on view at Palazzo da Mosto until mid-June. Visit the exhibition if you happen to be in the area. #

Images by Emilia Martin.

12/05/2026

We are pleased to announce that Najla Said (), selected by NOOR for the CROSS-LOOKING residency programme, presents her first solo exhibition 'What Remains at the Table' throughout May 2026 at Bisabab Leila in Berlin. The works were developed following her residency in Yerevan in September 2025 as part of .

Najla Said’s practice moves between documentation and experimentation. Using analog processes such as cyanotypes, chlorophyll prints, and liquid emulsions, her photographs shift and fade over time, reflecting the fragile nature of memory.

The exhibition traces connections between food, migration, and memory through experimental photographic processes and research into the shared histories embedded in bastirma. To visit the exhibition, please send a DM to Bisabab Leila (.leila) to make an appointment.

CROSS-LOOKING: East-West Artistic Residencies is a collaboration between NOOR images, Organ Vida International Photography Festival, National Gallery of Armenia, Université Paris Cité, Unione della Romagna Faentina, and Università Iuav di Venezia, co-funded by Creative Europe.

Images by Najla Said.

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