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Celeste Noche

Photographer and Reporter

Celeste Noche is a Filipino American photographer with a focus in food, travel and portraiture. She seeks to tell community stories with intimacy and dignity and without the lens of the white gaze. In 2017, she founded Portland in Color, an organization that serves as a free public directory and features a platform highlighting BIPOC creatives.

Articles by Celeste Noche

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    C3PO pod

    Photos | Personal pods come to Portland’s tent villages

    40 single-person units have been allocated for the C3PO camp in Old Town, and 60 for the two other camps
    By
    Celeste Noche
    December 2, 2020
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    Fresh foods at William Temple pantry

    Photos | How Portland food pantries have adapted to extraordinary demand

    ‘We are experiencing what may be a hundred-year flood of hunger,’ says Oregon Food Bank's CEO
    By
    Celeste Noche
    September 9, 2020
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    Rico leans against a wall in Portland, holding a cellphone

    Pain, arrests and trauma: 4 injured protesters share their stories

    These Portland activists have been harmed by police, but that isn’t stopping them from fighting for racial equality
    By
    Celeste Noche
    July 25, 2020
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    Lana Jack holding a box of vegetable starts, wearing a face mask

    Celilo Wyam activist delivers relief to Indigenous villages of Columbia River

    Lana Jack makes daily trips to drop off donated supplies, helping about 100 people with precautions against COVID-19
    By
    Celeste Noche John McDonald
    May 17, 2020
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    Nisha Supahan, Toby Linwood and their family outside Tattoo 34

    PHOTO STORY: Community resilience carries Native-owned businesses through the pandemic

    These Indigenous-owned Oregon small businesses can use our support
    By
    Celeste Noche
    May 16, 2020
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    Overview of the LGBTQ+ camp and an adjacent camp

    PHOTOS: LGBTQ+ camp opens in Portland in response to COVID-19

    A homeless camp for people of color and another for the general population are also set to open over the weekend
    By
    Celeste Noche
    April 18, 2020
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    Next Chapter food pantry

    Rural Oregon food pantries: Reflections from a photojournalist

    While covering housing in Ontario, Street Roots photographer Celeste Noche discovers that food can be a unifier
    By
    Celeste Noche
    November 9, 2018

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