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By Andrea Louise Thomas Photos Gary Sissons
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ount Martha documentary photographer Naomi ‘Noa’ Fletcher has lived an extraordinary life. Noa identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. Noa spent twenty years travelling the world photographing people and places in diverse regions of the globe. Their photographic storytelling journey began when their parents gave them a Pentax 35mm film camera for their 21st birthday. A year later they started a three-year trip traveling around South East Asia, India and Nepal. Arriving later in Ireland, they had 80 odd rolls of undeveloped film. They developed one roll at a time as finances became available. They saw the world and their vision of it unfolding. There was no doubt documentary photography was their professional destiny.
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