Colin Czerwinski spent years touring as a photographer with New Jersey indie punk band Vasudeva, shooting from the basements of house shows to backstage corridors across the United States, Japan, and most of Europe. Somewhere along the way, he stopped seeking compositions and started allowing curiosity to lead — documenting people and places in the moment, trusting colour, light, and accident. In 2015, he took that sensibility and built NOICE, a photography publication and community that has since grown to over 117,000 followers on Instagram and a devoted Substack readership.
Czerwinski coined the term Minimal Comic-Play to describe the aesthetic that runs through everything NOICE publishes: minimalist in approach, humorous in spirit, alive to the way colours interact, the way a subject is juxtaposed against its background. The magazine operates on open submissions year-round, and the curation is rigorous — Czerwinski and his team look for photographers with a meticulous eye for form, beauty, symmetry, novelty, and the kind of deadpan wit that makes you look twice. The result is a publication that feels less like a magazine and more like a rolling group exhibition of people who see the world sideways.
NOICE produces limited-edition photo books alongside its online platform, and Czerwinski has served as a judge for the World Photography Organisation's Student competition in 2021 and as guest curator for a gallery exhibition with Ephemere in Tokyo in 2024. His advice to photographers hoping to be featured is characteristically blunt: continue to improve your work, don't get too comfortable, and pay attention to the light.
What makes NOICE work is its refusal to take itself too seriously while taking photography very seriously indeed. It is a publication that believes the best photograph is the one that makes you go — well — noice.
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