Breathing Grave (Self-Portrait) No. 6, 2023, unfixed lumen print, 14 x 7 in.

Using my magic to find the glitter

Noah S. Thompson is an image maker and storyteller exploring the relationship between landscape and memory-keeping. Their practice investigates interpretations of natural markers, meanings, and mythologies motivated by a sense of wonder. They use photography to examine prosaic and abandoned places, inviting others to reflect, remember, and imagine. Noah’s work is quiet. It blends the organic and human-made, questions the unknown and unknowable, and relies on rituals and relics to call for consideration of how we interact with and understand our surroundings.

 

Noah is a New England-based artist, raised in Oregon and New Mexico. They received an M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of Connecticut and a dual B.A. in English and Art & Art History from Dickinson College. Some of their exhibition venues include Forbes Library (Northampton, MA), Distillery Gallery (Boston, MA), William Benton Museum of Art (Storrs, CT), Mattatuck Museum of Art & History (Waterbury, CT), Strata Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts (Providence, RI), Da Vinci Art Alliance (Philadelphia, PA), and birds + Richard Gallery (Berlin, DE). Noah’s work has been supported by a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ford/Knauth Fellowship for LGBTQIA+ Artists at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the UConn Zachs Award.

noahsterlingthompson@gmail.com

@noahsthompson

This is a ghost of an image. The unfixed lumen print no longer exists, save for this digital facsimile. Blues and lilacs have to transformed into pinks and flesh tones through the process of fixing. I’m learning now to let go of certain mom
Swimming is prohibited, but looking is just fine. | A view of the lower portion of Diana’s Pool.
The first week of the new semester is over, and old friends have resurfaced. I love photography, but there’s been a bit of a disconnect between myself and the work in many senses. I need to put myself in conversation with the images, so what be
Very slowly burning, the big forest tree stands in the slight hollow of the snow melted around it by the mild, long heat of its being and its will to be root, trunk, branch, leaf, and know earth dark, sun light, wind touch, bird song. Rootless and r
The death of a memory, in color. These lumen prints, unfixed, will fade over time if left to the light that made them. But doesn’t that make them alive?
Little glimpses of wonder from my studio and wanderings ✨ 1. Detail from a scrap photo that lumenized 2. @cattnel gift of a rainbow at sunset 3. Texture from a felled tree that fed my practice 4. Light in passing on the living room wall 5. The his
Reinterpreting images taken this summer at @air_byrdcliffe and appreciating the velvety rich qualities of darkness ✨
A little late to #WorldCyanotypeDay but I still had to express my love for this process. What a wonderful way to color the world. 💙✨
Here’s a peek at some of the work I made during my residency at @air_byrdcliffe ! Looking forward to exploring these images during the new semester. #Repost @uconnphotovideo ・・・ Things are ramping up for the start of the fall semester, and w