Jessica's first monograph, Interior Exposure, was released in 2008 by Damiani Editore.
To purchase, please visit your local arts bookshop or order from Amazon or PhotoEye.

Photo District News named Interior Exposure as one of its Books of 2008, celebrating Jessica's "undeniable skill in creating wonderful images and then instilling them with such power - the power of suggestion."

 

Exhibits

Jessica is currently part of a group show at her new French gallery, Galerie Confluence in Nantes. This show, "Multiple", assembles work by a diverse group of international talents including the renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. This exhibition will run through the holiday season - for more information please visit the Galerie Confluence website.

This fall Jessica has been invited to participate in "More Photos About Buildings and Food", a group show at Philadelphia's innovative Gallery 339. Inspired by a 1978 album by Talking Heads, this collection of new and vintage work on the themes of architecture and eating will include work by such luminaries as Martin Parr, Neil Winokur, and William Christenberry. The exhibition will open with a reception on Friday, September 21st - visit the event's Facebook page for more information and to RSVP.

 

Awards

On May 5th, 2010 Jessica took home a silver medal from the Society of Publication
Designers' annual gala dinner. This award recognizes the excellent of her contribution to Real Simple's November 2009 spread entitled "The Most Meaningful Moment of My Day", an SPD award winner winner in the Non-Celebrity Profile category.
A selection from this spread: Image 1; Image 2; Image 3; Image 4.
For a full list of all of the winners, please download the event PDF here.

Jessica has been named one of the 50 top scorers out of the 592 contemporary photographers evaluated in the 2009 Critical Mass survey of contemporary photography.
Please visit the Photolucida Critical Mass page for more information.


What They're Saying

A survey of Jessica's new work appeared in the October 6th, 2012 edition of Die Zeit Literatur, the literary section of one of Germany's top newspapers. For an image of this article, click here.

A portfolio of Jessica's newest work - including several images not yet on view on this site - appears in the current issue of Fraction, the independent online photography magazine.
View this special collection of new work here.

Publications

New York Magazine
Recent work of Jessica's, focusing on her young twins, illustrated "All Joy No Fun", the cover story in the July 12th, 2010 issue of New York Magazine. Read the article, a personal tale of the difficulties faced by modern parents, in its entirety online - or visit the homepage for the July 12th issue to order a copy.

Real Simple
In November 2009 the editors of Real Simple asked Jessica to create a work that evokes "The Most Meaningful Moment of My Day." Look for these images in a series of spreads - alongside the words of such luminaries of modern literature as Ayelet Waldman, Geraldine Page, Rick Moody and Jonathan Safran Foer - in the November 2009 issue.
UPDATE: These images have now won Jessica a silver medal from the Society of Publication Designers.
Click through for a glimpse:

Image 1; Image 2; Image 3; Image 4.

Jessica teaches photography at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and the International Center of Photography in New York City.

For a full list of Jessica's awards, exhibits and publication appearances, please visit her online resumé.

 


Interior Exposure

Jessica Todd Harper at FotoWeek, Washington DC

 
 




Society of Publication Designers



New York Magazine



Real Simple