Noor, the new 9-member photo agency, was officially named yesterday at the Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan.

Tuesday, 4 September 2007

© Pep Bonet

Later this week, Noor will present itself to the world following an evening screening of work at the Campo Santo venue.
In a statement it said that its members were "independent and concerned photographers producing in-depth visual reports on important social, political, environmental and cultural issues with a highly personal visual grammar".

Noor is: Samantha Appleton (United States), Jodi Bieber (South Africa), Philip Blenkinsop (Australia), Pep Bonet (Spain), Jan Grarup (Denmark), Stanley Greene (United States), Yuri Kozyrev (Russia), Kadir van Lohuizen (The Netherlands) and Francesco Zizola (Italy).
In a combined effort - and with the support and coordination of co-owner and managing director Claudia Hinterseer and associate editor Lotti Pronk - the agency will promote, sell and exhibit the work of its nine founding member photographers.

© Samantha Appleton

From 7 September onwards, visitors and customers will have access to its website where projects of the photographers are accessible and the online picture library for archival photography can be accessed.

The Noor screening will be held on Thursday 6 September and the press conference the next day at 10am in the Palais de Congrès. Noor said it was grateful to Canon Europe and Kodak for supporting its launch.