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Tony Sedgwick

January 27, 2021 by johnnoltner

Tony Sedgwick is the President of the Board for the Santa Fe Ranch Foundation, a working cattle ranch near Nogales, Arizona and just a few miles north of the U.S. border with Mexico. With a background in international business law, Tony offers a sweeping view of history and economics of the borderlands and sees a need to shift our international policies away from fear and protectionism and toward development and infrastructure. This interview was conducted in mid-January 2021, before the […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: a peace of my mind, arizona, border, fear, government, immigrants, immigration, mexico, nogales, photography, ranching, Sedgwick, social issues, southwest, storytelling, wall

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Joseph McGill

December 12, 2020 by johnnoltner

Joseph McGill is the founder of The Slave Dwelling Project. I interviewed him at the Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina. Ten years ago, Joe started spending the night in historic slave quarters and has slept overnight at more than 150 such sites across the country. He uses the experience to talk about the importance of preserving these historic structures so that we may have full and honest conversations about our country’s history. When you’re uncomfortable, that’s when the learning starts.” – […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: Black History, History, Joseph McGill, Magnolia Plantation, oral histpry, photography, plantations, slave dwellings, Slavery, social issues, society, South Carolina, storytelling, the south, travel

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New Voices

December 4, 2020 by johnnoltner

It’s 1,300 miles from Minnesota to South Carolina. With our trailer in tow, we are learning that transit days are slower than we expected. You can’t drive as fast. If you stop, it takes longer to park. It gets dark early this time of year, and as we get used to setting up camp, I’d prefer to do it in the daylight. There are other lessons, too. In our first week, we’ve learned how long our battery will last on […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: Black History, Charleston, History, Magnolia Plantation, photography, plantation, rv, Slavery, south, South Carolina, storytelling

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Ithaca Remote

October 7, 2020 by johnnoltner

Over the past few weeks, I’ve produced a series of remote portraits with Ithaca College and gathered stories around the question, “What does community and belonging look like for you in this time of pandemic and protests?” It’s something I’ve thought of a lot lately, as we all learn new ways of navigating the world. As Karen and I leave our home of 20 years. As we put physical distance between us and the relationships we cherish. What does it […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: belonging, black and white, community, connection, Ithaca College, photography, portrait photography, storytelling

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Visioning

August 27, 2020 by johnnoltner

The creative process isn’t always tidy. My office certainly isn’t. Nor is my handwriting. I’ll often vision about project ideas and future plans on a scrap of paper. I’ll tape rough notes to my office wall and see how they hold up over time. Some of them never happen. Others could not be stopped if you tried. As I struggled through packing up 20 years of photo memories in my office, I came across this note, imagining what my third […]

Categories: Blog, Project Updates • Tags: creative process, crowd funding, cry out, fundraising, listen first, memories, photography, plans, social issues, visioning, weaving community

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Tech Talk

August 13, 2020 by johnnoltner

I don’t often talk about gear and technique as I tend to be more interested in soul and story. But I’ve had several people ask about the logistics of our George Floyd portrait series from 38th and Chicago, so I thought I’d make a behind the scenes post to share a little bit about my process. These images have high production value, like a studio portrait, but also a sense of immediacy and context like street photography. That means, you […]

Categories: Blog • Tags: gear, George Floyd, how to, photo tips, photography, portrait photography, street photography

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I can hear the streets talking

June 29, 2020 by johnnoltner

Public projection from John Noltner Photography on Vimeo. For 10 nights, we projected the stories we gathered from the George Floyd memorial. We amplified the voices of the people we encountered. We projected their portraits 20’ x 30’ on the side of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. And we climbed down off the rooftop to have conversations with the people who stopped to look. For me, it was a way to share the stories publicly in an immediate and […]

Categories: Blog, Uncategorized • Tags: George Floyd, Minneapolis, photography, portrait photography, projection, public art, stories

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Maybe this time

June 3, 2020 by johnnoltner

On Monday May 25, George Floyd was killed by police at the intersection of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis. Because the COVID-9 pandemic had caused all my programming to be cancelled, I happened to be at home, 11.6 miles to the south. On Wednesday I went to see the site where a small memorial was taking shape and on Thursday returned with an improvised portable studio, a broken heart, and one simple question: “What do you want to say?” Over […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: a peace of my mind, Black Lives Matter, blm, change, George Floyd, justice, Minneapolis, photography, protest, race

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I see you

May 30, 2020 by johnnoltner

I’m tired today. But I’ll go back out there. Because my tired is nothing in the face of the soul-crushing weariness I see in my brothers and sisters on the street. My tired pales when it’s held side by side with the frustration I hear in the voices of the people. My tired is no excuse when you begin to recognize the heavy burden that has been carried for days and years and decades of calling out and not being […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: a peace of my mind, George Floyd, justice, listening, Minneapolis, photography, protest, race, storytelling

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Pledge Purple

January 27, 2019 by johnnoltner

At ECU, we asked, “What do you want your campus to know about sexual assault prevention and education?”

Categories: Blog • Tags: black and white, education, photography, pledge purple, portraits, prevention, sexual assault, sexual assault prevention, stories

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