Mady Noel Photo

About Mady Noel Photo

IF I'M BEING TOTALLY HONEST (AND I AM BECAUSE WE'RE FRIENDS NOW), I never wanted to photograph weddings.Or people in a portrait sense at all, really. I got my first Canon Rebel when I was seventeen, in my senior year of high school. Once I moved to college I quickly became a nightlife photographer (you know what I'm talking about— the kind that takes drunk, sweaty photos of you in that one bar). It was a horrible job with shitty pay but there are silver linings in all things and sometimes those silver linings are free beer.Shortly after that I got a job at my school, East Carolina University, photographing student events and then moved on to taking photos of all of my friends and their bands. I enjoyed the documentary side of it all, the it's-okay-if-you-missed-it-because-I-photographed-literally-every-moment kind of thing.

It wasn't until some friends asked me to photograph their pregnancy announcement that things began to click for me. They had struggled with fertility and this announcement was big. I cried during the session, cried while editing, and cried again when I delivered the photos. It was then I realized that a documentary approach blended with honest human connection, a human story was innately powerful. I quickly fell in love with it all.I wanted to create images where it didn't matter if you knew the subject, their name or occupation, or how they take their coffee— regardless of how much or little you knew, I wanted you to feel their happiness, their pain and most of all, their love.

That light bulb moment was 6 years ago and I haven't looked back since. I've been creating honest images of people in love up and down the East Coast and loving every second of it. Digital and film formats. Based in NC / NYC; working everywhere in-between.