Noel-Marie Fletcher

Artist Statement

Noël-Marie Fletcher is a photographer, award-winning author and journalist in DC. Her distinctive style of photography blends realism and still life in nature and urban scenes to illuminate the world around us. Her photos are windows into the unseen beauty of nature, objects created by people and sometimes contrasts between the two. Noël’s visual expressions reflect her cultural duality. She expresses her Hispanic culture in capturing vibrant colors and light vs. dark interplays, as well as patterns and shapes. Her camera is a Leica.

A photojournalism class sparked Noël's love of photography. Her photos have accompanied her articles throughout her news career. She started her news career in California and moved to Hong Kong where she covered the High Court for HongKong Standard and became a foreign correspondent for The Journal of Commerce, America’s oldest daily business paper. Traveling throughout Asia, she was posted to Beijing as China Correspondent. She is a founding member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and has written extensively for newspapers, magazines and wire services. In 2017, she briefly filled in as Berlin bureau chief for The Times (London) before moving to DC to cover policy, write books, enjoy photography and volunteer in leadership roles for several organizations.

Noël is active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Press Club. She has a B.A. in journalism from San Francisco State University and completed Master’s in Journalism coursework at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia. She is the author of several books.

Her most recent book “Reporting the Nuremberg Trials: How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions” won a national 1st Place Nonfiction History Book Award in 2025 from National Federation of Press Women.