Noa Avishag Schnall is a Los Angeles-born visual storyteller based in Paris, of Yemeni descent. Her work spans multiple continents with a focus on amplifying stories of justice, resistance, and cultural celebration within underrepresented communities.

After earning dual degrees from UC-Berkeley and USC by age 21, Noa pursued storytelling, debuting a solo exhibition in 2014, featuring images and video from her first journey to Yemen. She later pursued a Master’s in Indigenous Journalism, living with and learning from the Sámi people in Arctic Norway.

In 2019, her first solo story for The New York Times, which she wrote and photographed, made A1 of the International Edition, covering Tunisia’s Queer Film Festival participants, where being gay is illegal. Other notable stories include racial inequality in immigrant resettlement in Israel (2023), a solo road trip from the Yemeni border to the Strait of Hormuz (2022), Ebola prevention in Rwanda (2019), and the overlapping epidemics of HIV and domestic abuse in Tajikistan (2016). Her photo memoir documenting the Omani journey will be published in early 2025, by independent publisher 24°36°.

Featured in & previous work for: The New York Times, Apple, GQ Middle East, PUMA, GEO Magazine (France), ESSES, BLAST FR, Discontent (coming soon), ROJO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), & UN Women

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