(B. 1993 south Phoenix, Ariz.) Noemí spoke her first word at the age of three. Her doctors, for a short period, believed her to be deaf. It wasn’t until in a monitored room, toddler-Noemí looked around trying to locate the directional sound. The specialist told her mom: She’ll speak when she’s ready.

Noemí thinks of this a lot because she is often the quietest in the room, often so attuned to the sounds she is hearing, hypersensitive to rooms full of chatter or aware of how loud the world and her elements can become. Noemí spent much of her formative years imagining worlds and time traveling, beautiful coping mechanisms that allowed her to keep her heart soft as her family navigated domestic violence, alcoholism and poverty. When someone asks her if she is a photographer, she will stammer her way unsure how to explain that she makes images to try to communicate how she sees the world and how she sees the lives she is granted access to.

Therefore, Noemí is a storyteller - always has been and always will be.

Noemí began making portraits at 17, making her first image of her great aunt Carmen in the rural part of Jalisco south of Lake Chapala. At 28, she now has a nonlinear portfolio full of couples, families, musicians, faces of all diasporas and images of Pachamama from the lands of the Quechua to the land in Nepal and is a published photojournalist in the Guardian-US and NYLON Magazine and has assisted in photo projects for NatGeo and WSJ with Ash Ponders and Caitlin O’Hara. In 2018, she worked under the guidance of Pulitzer award winning photographer Lucian Perkins for a USA for UNHCR project and in earlier that year she volunteered as a photographer for Women LEAD Nepal in Kathmandu, Nepal, under direction of US Diplomat Stephanie Arzate.

She is bilingual in the colonizer languages of Spanish and English, and is probably currently mumbling her way through both. She is mostly existing, finding faces in the clouds and the mountains, and for now, making her steady income by tweeting about environmental justice at Chispa AZ and as a photo assist stringer under Courtney Pedroza for Manley Films Production.

Noemí is recipient of an $18,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture with a goal to bring a community art project to life in south Phoenix in 2022 in collaboration with artists Trinity Miracle, Alejandra Pablos and Stephanie Guillermina.

In 2020, Noemí became a part of Juntos Photo Co-op. Juntos published a manifesto urging independent image makers to stand in solidarity with one another to advocate for their safety and contributed to authoring the Photo Bill of Rights.

In 2020, Noemí showcased her multimedia art installation ‘Unraveled’ at Artlink's 8th Annual Art d'Core Gala where she worked in collaboration with steelwork artist Peter Deise. The art installation opened up one week before the world would grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. The gallery opened up to a quiet world drawing socially-distanced viewers – ever so sparsely. The piece explored the spectrum of emotion in a waterfall presentation. How strange that the title of the piece nearly mimicked what would happen to communities globally.