Analog Photographer Julia Sara Noelle’s project ‘womeninrooms’ opens the doors of women’s private spaces, which generally remain hidden from sight. These women are in a period of transition from childhood to adolescence or adolescence to adulthood—and share their intimacy and stories as a kind of secrecy between Photographer and Subject.

”The bedroom is the place where religion and power, health and illness, body and spirit, love and sex interweave,” writes historian Michelle Perrot. And for some women it can be the only place where they actually feel free. And so a wide spectrum of emotions, ranging from severe grief to ultimate joy, are stored in between the walls of one’s bedroom. 

Through womeninrooms, a silent dialogue emerges among women from Amsterdam, Japan and beyond. This unspoken connection turns their private bedrooms into a shared embrace in which they can belong together. - Julia