MARÍA GOIRIGOLZARRI

Nina Berman (US, 1960) is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist and educator.  Her work explores American politics, militarism, environmental issues and post violence trauma.  She is the author of Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, (Trolley, 2004) portraits and interviews with wounded American veterans, Homeland, (Trolley, 2008) an examination of the militarization of American life post September 11, and An autobiography of Miss Wish (Kehrer, 2017) a story told with a survivor of sexual violence which was shortlisted for both the Aperture and Arles book prizes. Additional fellowships, awards and grants include: the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation, Pictures of the Year International, the Open Society Foundation, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and the Aftermath Project. She started her photographic career in 1988 as an independent photographer working on assignment for the world’s major magazines including Time, Newsweek, Life, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, German Geo, and the Sunday Times Magazine. She covered a range of issues, from women under siege during war in Bosnia and Afghanistan, to domestic issues of criminal justice, reproductive rights, and political process. Her work has been exhibited at more than 100 international venues from the Whitney Museum Biennial to the concrete security walls at the Za’atari refugee camp. Public collections include the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of the City of New York, the Harvard Art Museums and the Bibliothèque nationale de France among others. She has participated in workshops around the world for young photographers and writes frequently on photojournalism for the Columbia Journalism Review.  She is a tenured Professor of Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she directs the photojournalism/documentary photography program.

Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan/USA, 1975), is a an award-winning visual journalist, artist, and educator with a track record of narrative innovation and a reputation for creating dynamic creative work grounded in ethical practice and collaboration. Trained in anthropology and journalism, with an MA in Global Media and emphasis on Middle Eastern politics, her work focuses on gender, representations of otherness, dispossession, resettlement, and human rights. With close to 20 years of experience, Habjouqa has become a leading voice in the advancement of new documentary practices that seek to reframe news and politics through a more nuanced, culturally literate lens. She is the author of the ground-breaking book Occupied Pleasures (2015), a founding member of Rawiya, the first all-female photography collective from the Middle East and her work is in the collections of MFA Boston, Institut du Monde Arab, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. She is a mentor for the Arab Documentary Photography Program, nurturing marginalized narratives and narrative-creators with the space and skills to tell their stories. Habjouqa fuses a mordant sense of irony with unstinting, forensic interrogations of the implications of geopolitical conflict on human lives, weaving narratives infused with folklore and dark humor.

A Nikon Europe Ambassador, she is a winner of the 2014 World Press Photo and a key advisor and educator to NOOR Foundation and Nikon NOOR academy. Habjouqa is represented by East Wing Gallery.

Olga Kravets (Russia, 1984) is a journalist by education. She started to take photographs as an alternative means of expression in Russia, where press freedom continues to be a struggle. Filmmaking came naturally after that, love at first sight. In 2018, she accomplished her longest project up to date, Grozny: Nine Cities. Since 2009 she explored the complexity of the aftermath of the two gruesome wars in the tiny North Caucasian republic of Chechnya. That collaborative project won the 2014 Prix-Bayeux Calvados for war correspondents. Currently, she is working on a documentary feature set across Europe, taking pictures, filming, and directing for media, institutions, and companies, as well as teaching documentary storytelling.

Bénédicte Kurzen (France, 1980) is a photographer working on cross cultural narratives and mythologies, opening the door to possible redefinitions of social concepts. Her photography combines documentary elements with a metaphoric, constructed language,  while experimenting with collaborative processes.

She began her career in 2003 in the Middle East, covering hard news in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq. Her work with the «Violence Against Women» project focused on widows in Gaza. In Johannesburg, she co-founded the Eve Photographers collective, which focuses on women’s issues. She has produced substantial work on social changes and tensions in South Africa (2005-2011) then Nigeria (2011-2023), with her ongoing «Lake Chad Chronicles» project. Since 2018, she deepens her work on mythologies in Nigeria and China and examined the persistence of ancient beliefs in Mayotte, in her last body of work «Madjinis».

Among few distinctions, she was part of the prestigious World Press Joop Swart Masterclass (2008), a Pulitzer Center and European Journalism Center grantee (2012, 2017), nominated for the Visa d’Or for her work about ethnico-religious violences in Nigeria (“A Nation Lost to Gods, 2012). More recently, she won with photographer and NOOR colleague, Sanne De Wilde, the first Prize in the portrait category of the World Press Photo (2019) along with other prizes such as the CAP Prize and Liangzhou Award. In 2023, she receives with Muntaka Chasant and Anas Aremeyaw Anas the Carmignac photojournalism Award, for their collaborative project on e-waste.  Her work has been published internationally, and she is a member of the National Geographic Photo Society and a contributing photographer to the magazine.

Sebastián Liste (Spain, 1985) is an award-winning photographer based between Spain and Brazil. He studied Sociology and Photography before moving to Latin America, where he spent a decade refining his visual language.  He is dedicated to long-form, in-depth documentary projects exploring loss and trauma; the human impact on the environment; and reflections of place, family, and memory. 

His accolades include a World Press Photo prize, POYI Community Awareness Award, Magnum Foundation Grant, Getty Grant, the Young Reporter Award at Visa pour l’Image, citation at the Olivier Rebbot Award. His work has also been nominated for the Prix Pictet and the FOAM Paul Huf Award. He was a finalist at the Eugene Smith Grant and the winner of the Alexia Foundation Grant for World Peace and Cultural Understanding. 

Sebastian is a regular contributor to many international publications, including The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Stern, Paris Match, GEO, and The Sunday Times Magazine. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals worldwide. It’s held in the permanent collection of The Sorigue Foundation in Lerida, Spain, at Maison de l´Image Documentarie in Séte, France, at Elton John Photography Collection as other private collections. 

Sebastian is a frequent lecturer on photography at universities, photography schools, and festivals and conducts photographic mentoring and workshops.

Sebastian Liste is a member and co-owner of NOOR Images, a global, multilingual collective of highly accomplished photographers, authors, artists, and filmmakers documenting, investigating, and witnessing our world.