NOOR Foundation and Keystone-SDA are pleased to invite visual storytellers to apply for a five days, intensive masterclass in documentary photography and visual storytelling led by NOOR photographer Tanya Habjouqa (US/Jordan).

The call for applications addresses professional photographers. The Masterclass aims to provide strategies and tools for participants to develop their own personal and long-term projects; to inspire and push participants to take a more expansive, creative view on documentary photography.

The Masterclass will be concucted in English and is limited to 7 participants maximum. On the afternoon of day 5, a portfolio review with experts will take place for the participants to present their final work.

Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan, 1975) is a Jordanian / Texan documentary photographer and educator. Her work is born out of long-term investments and collaborative methodology, blending ethnographic research and reportage. Known for producing sensitive work underscored by the absurd, her long-term projects focus on gender, representations of otherness, dispossession, and ever-shifting sociopolitical dynamics in the middle east.

Her «Occupied Pleasures» was heralded by TIME magazine and Smithsonian as one of the best photo books of 2015 (winning her a World Press Photo award in 2014). She mentors emerging photographers from across the Arab region for Magnum Foundation’s «Emerging Arab Photographer Documentary Fund» together with the Prince Claus Foundation and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. Tanya is a member of NOOR and one of the founding members of Rawiya, the first all female photo collective of the Middle East. She is based in East Jerusalem.

Lunch Talk with Tanya Habjouqa
Friday, 28 June 2018, 12.15 p.m.  – 1.45 p.m.
Keystone-SDA Foyer, Grubenstrasse 45, Zurich
Public event – registration: marketing@keystone.ch.

Exhibition «TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS» Tanya Habjouqa
27 June - 20 September 2018
COALMINE Forum für Dokumentarfotografie, Turnerstrasse 1, Winterthur