Nöel-Marie Fletcher

Taos Plateau: Where the "Mountain Men" Roamed in 1820s-40s

8 x 12", framed to 12.25 x 15.25 x 1.5"

Digital Photography on Giclée Paper

$140

The Taos fur trappers were rugged American and French-Canadian "Mountain Men" who paved the way for the U.S. to claim a large stake of the Southwest as the Territory of New Mexico.

Artist's Statement:

Noël-Marie Fletcher is a photographer, award-winning author and journalist in DC. Her distinctive photography style 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. She expresses her Hispanic culture in capturing vibrant colors, light vs. dark interplays and patterns/shapes.

Noël currently is Photography Committee Vice Chair at the National Press Club and has taken photos with her journalism articles. Her news career started in California and then Hong Kong for HongKong Standard. She became an Asia foreign correspondent for The Journal of Commerce, America’s oldest daily business paper, then China Correspondent in Beijing. She is a Foreign Correspondents Club of China founding member. In 2017, she briefly was Berlin bureau chief for The Times (London).

In the Daughters of the American Revolution, she has a journalism B.A. (San Francisco State University) and completed Master’s in Journalism coursework (Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia). Her latest book “Reporting the Nuremberg Trials: How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions” won a 1st Place Nonfiction History Book Award (2025) from National Federation of Press Women.