In order to reach you, I must turn myself inside out. I give to you a body, not too un-similar to yours, and demand you watch it unfurl her innermost desires. She has held a lover, witnessed loss, and intertwined with a friend. Girlhood memories are retained as growing pains in the body, ambiguous to specificity except for the sharpness of love. As the one true constant, even as time plays against history, love keeps the body present. In any case, these are not unique to any one body. You will see yourself reflected in her contortions. You will see her in another’s eyes. You will see how you try to please her in the company of your body. And I will try to reach those former lovers through unfinished love letters – keeping warm the beds which I laid – to remember her spirit that I can no longer distill in a single camera frame.
Katie Noble is from the outskirts of Buffalo, New York and currently based in New York City. She is a fine art and portrait photographer interested in human interaction with time and memory, especially in queer bodies. While working on long narrative projects, she feels the work is often fully complete in multimedia installations. She will be graduating with a BFA in Photography & Imaging and minors in Art History and Art & Public Policy from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in May 2024. Her work and writing has been published in Musée Magazine and ISO Magazine.
Available for work (editorial, fashion, portraiture, commission). For more information contact by email ktnoblephoto@gmail.com.
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