Hot Shots : Noah Addis
Artist Statement
My work deals with issues relating to mass consumption, the passage of time and the role of technology in our modern lives. We live in a society that consumes an ever-increasing amount of natural resources, and we are changing our Earth in ways we have yet to discover. These photographs explore the omnipresent creations of suburban life such as shopping malls, factories, airports and highways. Photographing the light that these installations emit into the night sky forms my images.
The images depict energy in a pure form. The energy interacts with the natural world as light reflects off of clouds and other atmospheric particles. Through long exposures, this artificial light is transformed into natural-looking scenes that are, in reality, anything but natural.
Biography
Noah Addis been working as a professional photojournalist and documentary photographer for more than fifteen years. His work has been published in major publications including The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, People, US News & World Report, Life's Year in Pictures and many others. Noah graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a degree in Photography. He also studied at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine.
Shortly after graduation, he was hired as a staff photographer at the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ. While at the newspaper he completed many major projects. In 1999 he worked on a story about the growth of Christianity in Africa. In 2001 he covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, first at the Pentagon and later in New York. In 2003 he traveled unilaterally to Iraq to document the immediate aftermath of the fall of Bagh¬dad. In 2006 he produced a series of large-format portraits and architectural photographs of an American high school. In 2007 he told the story of a family after the father, a police officer, was shot in the line of duty.
Noah was part of a team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2005 for coverage of the resignation of New Jersey’s Governor. He was awarded the New Jersey Photographer of the Year award three times and was the runner-up in the portfolio category of the National Press Photographer’s Association Best of Photojournalism contest. Noah has won several awards in the Pictures of the Year International contest.
He is now represented by the Corbis photo agency in New York. In 2010 he had a solo exhibition of his work at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and was awarded a career development fellowship by the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia.