NOOR is a collective uniting a select group of highly accomplished photojournalists and documentary storytellers focusing on contemporary global issues.

Over the course of the day, thousands will move through this opening, one of only a few official routes across the 1050km border that now separates Kurdistan and the amorphous territory under the control of the extremist militants of the Islamic State. Maktab Khalid, Iraq, September 17, 2014. Andrea Bruce / NOOR
The shipwreck of the 20-metre-long (66 ft) fishing boat that sunk off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa on 3 October 2013 killing 366 migrants. The wreck lies at a depth of 50 metres. Island of Lampedusa Italy 22 September 2014. Francesco Zizola / NOOR
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Eighteen year old Syrian bride Juzlan gets ready to leave the salon where she has spent the entire morning preparing to be wed as a refugee. Za'atari, January 2014. Alixandra Fazzina / NOOR
Protesters clash with police on Chicago's South Side during the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago. May 2012. Jon Lowenstein / NOOR
NOOR's installation project of the Za'atari refugee camp in Photoville. The work includes work by Alixandra Fazzina, Andrea Bruce, Stanley Greene and Nina Berman / NOOR
The market of Sanaa. Yemen, December 2010. Yuri Kozyrev / NOOR
Via PanAm exhibition by Kadir van Lohuizen at the Centre national de l'audiovisuel (Luxembourg) Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR

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