Deadline: 8-Mar-23
Are you a visual storyteller passionate about tackling issues surrounding the climate crisis and looking for a way to use your camera to make a difference? Apply to the Visualising Climate Crisis: Advanced Mentoring Programme in Vietnam by the NOOR foundation, open to nationals of Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
The NOOR Visualising Climate Crisis: Advanced Mentoring Programme is an 8-month advanced visual storytelling training course dedicated to photographers and visual journalists from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. The programme, which is taught in English, is a combination of two physical workshops in Hanoi, Vietnam and a 5-month online mentorship program to develop individual projects on the Climate Crisis in the region. The new work will be presented as a collective outdoor exhibition in Hanoi in September 2023.
The educational programme will be mentored by award-winning photojournalists Kadir van Lohuizen (Netherlands) and Linh Pham (Vietnam), reputed visual storytellers with extensive experience documenting the climate crisis. Through their guidance, they aim to provide you with the unique opportunity to acquire knowledge in how to research, investigate, produce, edit, curate and present powerful and impactful visual stories focused on the climate crisis. You will gain valuable insight into how to approach your subject, how to research, source and use data from verified sources as well as how to edit, curate and present your work.
The NOOR Foundation will also touch on the business side of the profession: you will learn how to pitch your stories to diverse platforms such as publications, exhibitions and NGO’s. Together, they will approach the subject from a cutting edge multidisciplinary perspective through the usage of photography, video, sound, text and drone cameras.
The NOOR Foundation aims to facilitate a safe space where they can all share their experiences, worries, doubts and concerns on the stories they want to make and on the profession at large, as well as learning through open feedback. They wish to inspire you to elevate your visual storytelling skills by facilitating the improvement of your journalistic, investigative skills and visual expertise over the photographic medium.
The project that you will develop during this educational programme will reach local communities in Vietnam and across borders through the outdoor exhibition which they will curate together. It will also gain a global audience through NOOR’s media platforms and become part of the NOOR Archive.
What will you get when you are Selected?
- Participation in a tuition-free educational programme Travel costs to Hanoi from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam for the two physical workshops reimbursed
- Accommodation in Hanoi for the two physical workshops reimbursed
- Breakfast and lunch on the days of the two physical workshops in Hanoi reimbursed
- A production fee will be granted based on the merit of the work in progress
Timeline
The educational programme is divided in 3 phases:
- Phase 1: 5 day intensive workshop (physical), 17-21 of April 2023. During the physical workshop, you will focus on the development of a long-term photographic project dedicated to the climate crisis and learn theoretical and technical skills from the mentors.
- Phase 2: 5 month online mentoring programme (remote) April-September 2023. After the completion of the 5-day workshop, under the online guidance of the mentors, you will be given a period of 3 months to create new work of research-based climate visual journalism, based on the idea developed during the physical workshop. The production time period will be followed by an online process of two months of editing and curating to finalise the projects and prepare the exhibition.
- Phase 3: 3 day intensive workshop and exhibition opening (physical), September 2023. You will be equipped with the tools to continue your work moving forward, and receive training on entrepreneurship within the field of visual storytelling. You will participate in finalising and designing the layout of the exhibition, which will open on the last day of the educational programme in a public event.
Criteria
- The educational programme takes place in Hanoi, Vietnam between 17th-21st of April and late September 2023.
- Open to photographers of all ages (18+) and career stages who are nationals of Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
- 10 to 15 participants will be selected by an international jury comprised of Kadir van Lohuizen, Linh Pham and Jessica Lim, director of the Angkor Photofestival.
For more information, visit NOOR Foundation.