air force base, 01:16 a.m.
noah addis
born: suburban New Jersey
Currently resides in New York, New York
website: www.noahaddis.com
work 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.
bio
Noah Addis was born and raised in suburban New Jersey. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a degree in Photography in 1997. Since then, he has worked as a staff photographer and more recently as photo editor for the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ. He has covered such stories as the growth of Christianity in Africa and the war in Iraq. Noah has won the New Jersey Photographer of the Year award three times, and in 2001 he was the runner-up in the portfolio category of the National Press Photographer’s Association Photographer of the Year contest.
Noah has recently moved away from pure documentation to embark upon a new, more interpretive body of work. He lives in New York City. More of his work can be seen at www.noahaddis.com.
There is an aesthetically pleasing quality to these photographs which almost makes you forget they are about. Nice work!
Posted by: Steve Miller | March 06, 2006 at 07:00 PM