Hi, I'm Noah

Basically, I just like to make beautiful things.

I built and ran bars and clubs (a hostel) for many years, some of them longer lived (and better loved) than others, but each memorable in it's own way... I never really thought I was "done done" but I was definitely tired after 15 years. I'd made thousands of friends and memories, and an equal (or greater) number of mistakes.

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I started taking photography seriously about 5 years ago, got a decent camera and started shooting. People seemed to like them. I liked them. I got hooked. I am a child (brother, cousin, nephew, and so on) of artists, and I was a passable artist when I was young. I studied it until it wasn't convenient anymore, as day to day American working class adulting took most of that available energy (and a lot of the joy), leaving me more than a little messed up, frankly.

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I moved to Europe shortly after George W. Bush was elected, seemed like a good time to jump ship.

Prioritizing quality of life over work is pretty standard European protocol throughout the continent. Even the Germans know how to take it down a notch and are proof that you can allow (minimum) 30 paid days off per year and still get the job done.

Learning that making space for beauty and creativity is the core of my wellbeing shouldn't have been shocking to me. I was born into it. But it took me quite some time to come around.

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Even when I was making and building wonderful stuff it still didn't occur to me that the active making of the wonderful was what compelled me... But I digress.

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This project is different in so many ways than anything I've done before but I think it holds the same spark.​

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The symbiosis of the creative events space with the creative visual space has been stunning so far, it's a creative ecosystem that keeps on giving. Imposter syndrome still abuses me virtually every moment but I genuinely feel good about this in ways I've never felt about a previous project. It's tiny but it's a pretty powerful little space.

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I definitely am not going to sell myself, or anything here. What I do is not for everyone, the imaging or the space itself. But perhaps there are enough folks who appreciate it that we can keep it going for some time to come.

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We shall see, thank gods for the meds. :)