Almost famous
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Photographer Sivan Noah gets her hands dirty
by SIOBHÀN O'CONNOR
Not just anyone can get away with saying things like, "I wanted to be famous." But for the ever-determined, humble, multi-tasking photographer Sivan Noah, these words slip off her tongue like warm honey. Living a kind of choose-your-own-adventure life, Noah bustles between her full-time gig with the Bloodsisters collective and trying to keep her head above water with her own politically charged creative projects--of which there are very, very many.
"It was my mission to make it big by 30," intimates the 25 year old. "I wanted to be in New York with coffee-table books and shows like all the rest of 'em. But I hit 25 and something changed--I stopped seeking fame."
Primarily a documentary photographer, Noah also has a penchant for all things cinematic. This past year found the former film student working closely with local indie film collective Automatic Vaudeville doing set and character shots, as well as with Daniel Bitton on his recent documentary about schizophrenic musician Wesley Willis.
Recently, though, Noah's found a new focus for her lens: "I've switched gears. Right now I'm really into smutty, dirty stuff." Noah and her partner in crime Crys Cole hoped to make porno films, but the duo decided to take this new project to still-life after "finding it way too hard to find people who were really interested and who we trusted." After her first foray into erotic photography at Colin & Maclean's Valentine's Day exhibit last year, Noah "began using my own body and my friends' doing some gender-bender stuff with guys in drag and dress-up. I like to play dress-up," she laughs.
"And now I feel like if, by my mid-40s, I have a coffee-table book, I'll be happy."
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