Noah Willman

Photos from the Women’s Pro Baseball League (@wpbl_official ) tryouts for NBC News. More than 600 athletes from 10 countries, traveling from as far as Australia, Japan, and South Korea, gathered in Washington, DC, to try out for the newly formed Women’s Professional Baseball League. Set to launch in May 2026, it will be the first professional women’s baseball league in the United States since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ended in 1954. PE: @zarakatz + @shazzyrowe AD: @chelsstahl Designer: @leilaregister Reporter: David K. Li Assistant: @khangplatesit

I’m excited to share that one of my images from the Women’s Pro Baseball Tryouts for @nbcnews was chosen for @american_photography_winners 42! ore than 600 athletes from 10 countries, traveling from as far as Australia, Japan, and South Korea, gathered in Washington, DC, to try out for the newly formed Women’s Professional Baseball League. Set to launch in May 2026, it will be the first professional women’s baseball league in the United States since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ended in 1954. Thanks to the @nbcnewsart team! PE: @shazzyrowe Edited by: @leilaregister CD: @chelsstahl Lighting Assistant: @khangplatesit

New lifestyle work for Xometry. Assistants: @louistinsley + @khangplatesit .

Data Center Alley photographed for @lesechosweekend . Centered around the DC suburb Ashburn, VA, the region holds nearly 200 data centers, with 177 more under construction, and processes close to an estimated 70% of global internet traffic. According to the Department of Energy and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, data centers will consume 12% of the US’s energy production in 2028, up from 2% just 7 years ago in 2019. 1. Equinix’s DC 16 data center building. 2. Water cooled server racks in Equinix’s Co Innovation Facility. 3. Equinix’s Chief Business Officer Jon Lin. 4. Water cooled server racks in Equinix’s Co Innovation Facility. 5. Back up diesel generators. 6. Security cameras on the exterior of a data center. 7. Google Maps directing me to turn on Reliability Plaza. 8. Gregory Alonso Pirio bought a house on the edge of the forest close to 10 years ago in Sterling, VA. A major road and data center powered by gas turbines were recently built 150 meters from his house. The sound from the data center can get up to 60 DB outside of his house. 9. Construction on a new data center. 10. 230 kV transmission lines along the Washington and Old Dominion Trail.

One of the most common misconceptions when I talk to people about blind hockey is thinking that being blind means having zero vision. While all players are legally blind, there is a wide variety of levels of vision and the types of vision players have remaining. Being legally blind means having 20/200 vision or worse, even after correction, meaning what you could read on an eye chart from 20 feet away, an average visioned person could read at 200 feet away. It can also mean you have a field of view that is 20 degrees or less, meaning you could have perfect visual acuity (20/20 vision) but can only through a narrow 20-degree tunnel of vision or less. Blind hockey is one of the only blind team sports that allows players to compete with their remaining vision, instead of wearing blind folds to have everyone at zero vision. The only exception is goalies who are required to wear blind folds to create a level playing field. Players vision levels are ranked on a points system, and teams can only have a certain number of points on the ice at a time. Many players have high enough levels of vision to see the puck when it’s close enough, some players can still read, some players have high enough vision to play on sighted hockey teams with a standard puck, some players can only perceive light or have no vision at all, and everything in between. Image descriptions: 1. A 1/2 waist up portrait of Team USA goalie Andrew Mead-Colegrove in a yellow team USA jersey on a white studio background. 2. A close up photo of a goalie stick butt end. 3. Josh Schneider (@hockey_2_blind_2_blindhockey93 ), Josh Fields (@one_eye_josh ), Easton Kitto, and Anthony Ashbaugh walking across a parking lot on their way from the hotel to the rink during the 2024 International Blind Hockey Series in St. Louis. 4. Charlie Mitchell exits his house wearing a Team USA Blind Hockey jacket using his cane. 5. A close up of Doug Goist during the 2024 International Blind Hockey Series in St. Louis. Doug is eye patches. One patch has an American flag sticker and the other patch has a skull and crossbones sticker that has worn off. Continued in comments. @dcblindhockey @usablindhockey @canadianblindhockey

I’m way late to this but am excited to announce my Blind Hockey feature in @washingtonianmag won an SPD Merit Award for News/Documentary/Essay, Story, Photography! Thanks to @dcblindhockey , @usablindhockey , @canadianblindhockey , @nymbhockey , @thedentedpuck , and @phlblindhockey for letting me tag along to all their practices and events over the years, and the crew at @washingtonianmag for making the feature happen. I originally started the project in 2018 and while I’m not actively taking photos for the project any more I still skate with the Washington Blind Hockey Club on the weekends. PE: @annamarinaaa CD: @jeff_glendenning Writer: Patrick Hurby Stick around to the last slide for some rare BTS of me at the 2024 Blind Hockey International Series in St. Louis. Story link: /2024/02/05/blind-hockey-players-in-the-dc-area-are-facing-off-in-the-rink/ Image descriptions: 1. Spread one of the magazine story features Aiden and Nate McCown on the ice on the left page and a close up of a blind hockey puck on the ice on the right. 2. Spread two features Doug Goist arriving to the Washington Blind Hockey Club’s rink, a close up of a hand holding a pass whistle, Doug making a save, a detail shot of showing the Washington Blind Hockey Club’s eye logo on the back of Doug’s mask, and Mike McCowen giving instructions to a group of players during practice. 3. Spread three is a wide shot showing game action and the crowd taken from directly behind Team USA’s net during the 2023 International Blind Hockey Series in Toronto between Team Canada and Team USA. 4. Spread four features Doug Goist receiving the silver medal at the 2023 International Blind Hockey Series in Toronto, a tight photo of Dirk Morgan on the bench watching the action, Nate and Aiden McCowen practicing stick handling at home, Nate McCowen using the zoom function on his phone’s camera to watch the action at a New Jersey Devil’s game, and Nate McCowen laying on the ice looking exhausted after a Washington Blind Hockey Club Practice.

A few more favorites from the Women’s Pro Baseball League Tryouts (@wpbl_official ) for NBC News. More than 600 athletes from 10 countries, traveling from as far as Australia, Japan, and South Korea, gathered in Washington, DC, to try out for the newly formed Women’s Professional Baseball League. Set to launch in May 2026, it will be the first professional women’s baseball league in the United States since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ended in 1954. PE: @zarakatz + @shazzyrowe AD: @chelsstahl Designer: @leilaregister Reporter: David K. Li Assistant: @khangplatesit

I photographed Doug Grant, founder of Atlantic Fish Co., who is cultivating black sea bass meat in the lab from fish muscle cell, on a cold 20 degree and very windy day in February for @georgetownmcdonough . Atlantic Fish Co. takes real black sea bass muscle cells and grow them in a large metal fermentation tank, similar to what you might see in a brewery, filled with a liquid broth of salts, amino acids and other nutrients that normally help fish grow. AD: @2communique + @gabgordon_ Assistant: @negativs_

Recap from this weekends APA | DC Photo Assistant Workshop! Big thank you to everyone who came out! It was a great day to learn. Thank you to our sponsors @atyolk for once again providing such an incredible space. And @dccamerarentals for providing the heavy duty gear. Another big thank you to our instructors: @louistinsley for spearheading the event @hannelelahti for leading the Set Safety Breakout session. @noahwillman for leading the Lighting Breakout group. @cbirckphoto for leading the Digi Tech Breakout Session @george_civita for leading the Photo Assistant Breakout Session Thank you to @samlevitanphotography for the great coverage and bts. Also thank you to the rest of the board @dylan_bilbao @robb_scharetg for their back up and support during the day. And of course our Director @katie_dance for pulling it all together. Hope everyone has a great week!

I’m thrilled that an image from my personal project on blind hockey project was chosen for the AP41 (@american_photography_winners ). This shot was taken during the 2024 International Blind Hockey Tournament between @usablindhockey and @canadianblindhockey in St. Louis. Image description: A motion blurred photo of a Team USA playing skating.

Klaas Knot, president of the Dutch central bank, photographed for @financieeledagblad .

Back in October, just a days before the election, I had the privilege of photographing an incredible group of dissidents and activists fighting for human rights and democracy around the world. Photographed for Renew Democracy Initiative (@renewdemocracy ). 1. Felix Maradiaga (@felixmaradiaga ) 2. Berta Valle (@bertavalle ) 3. Pavel Khodorkovskiy 4. Carolina Barrero (@carolinabferrer ) 5. Mai Khoi (@mai.khoi ) 6. Dalia Ziada (@daliaziada ) 7. Jonathan Duarte Hair and Makeup @anita_bahramy Lighting Assistant @maxfield_strode