Noa Avishag Schnall is a Yemeni-Polish, Los Angeles-born photographer and visual storyteller based in Paris, who has worked across countries in the SWANA Region, Africa, South and North America, the Arctic, and Europe.

After completing undergraduate degrees from both UC-Berkeley and USC by the age of 21, she began working in photography. Her first solo exhibition featured images and video from across Yemen, which debuted in the UAE in 2014. Noa went on to pursue her Master’s in Indigenous Journalism, living with and learning from the Sámi people in Arctic Norway.

Her work raises the volume on stories from under-represented communities, their justice, resistance and cultural celebration.

In 2019, Noa’s first piece for The New York Times made the front page of the International Edition, both written and photographed by her, about participants in a Queer Film Festival in Tunisia, where being gay is illegal.

Noa has written and photographed stories about: racial inequality in the immigrant resettlement experience in Israel (2023), a solo road trip from the Yemeni border to the Strait of Hormuz, up the Omani Coast (May 2022), Ebola prevention techniques in Rwanda (2019), and the overlapping epidemics of HIV and domestic abuse in Tajikistan (2016), among others.

Stories about the the financial crisis in Lebanon and pan-African ‘Culture Shifters’ are in progress.

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

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