Jessica's first monograph, Interior Exposure, is available now from Amazon.com. A celebratory solo exhibition of Jessica's photography ran from April 2-May 10,2008at Cohen Amador Gallery in New York City.
Read the Cohen Amador press release concerning Jessica's monograph and the associated exhibition here.
Jessica's next personal appearance will be on Friday, June 6th at the International Center of Photography, where she will be signing copies of Interior Exposure
from 6PM until 7:30PM.
Please visit the ICP store site for more details.
Exhibits
Jessica's photograph "Meggan" can be seen currently in Women Shooting Women,a show running until June 29, 2008 at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City. Curated by Los Angeles-based photographer Karen Florek, this show highlightsthe work of 12 contemporary female photographers.
To view the exhibition flier, click here .
Museum of Art at Ball State University: Conversation Piece. November 17th - February 24, 2008
Sarah Anne McNear, currently the director of the 92nd St. Y and former director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, has written the essay for the accompanying catalog.
To view the invitation, click here.
George Eastman House International Museum of Film and Photography.
Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography 2007-2009,
traveling to museums across the country.
Since this time last year, Jessica's work has appeared at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts; The Cooper Union, New York City; and the Hunterdon Museum of Art.
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts and The George Eastman House International Museum
of Photography and Film have purchased her work for their permanent collections.
Awards
Jessica won the award for Best Personal/Fine Art Single Image at the 2008
New York Photo Festival, where jury members included Elisabeth Biondi of The New Yorker
and Bjarke Myrthu of Magnum.
Jessica was chosen as a winner for the highly selective Critical Mass juried competition for
the second consecutive year. In addition, two of her images won in the American Photography
competition, which this year chose 156 images from over 8000 entrants to represent the best
of published photography in 2006.
Jessica was selected as one of PDN's 30 for 2005.
Jessica represented Pennsylvania in PDN's "50 States Issue" for 2006.
Publications
The New Yorker
The New Yorker reviewed Jessica's photography as part of its "Galleries: Uptown" listing
in the May 12th issue, noting that her images "combine a lovely sense of intimacy with
a casually patrician formality".
The New York Sun
On April 17, art critic William Meyers gave Jessica's exhibition at the Cohen Amador Gallery
an enthusiastic review, enjoying Jessica's work for both its display of "rich sociological data"
and its allusions to classic portraiture.
Jessica teaches photography at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and the InternationalO, The Oprah Magazine
Jessica enjoyed back-to-back O appearances in summer 2007, with a feature on her fine art
photography in the August issue and a turn as an editorial photographer in September, with
author Allison Glock as her subject.
Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, by Robert Hirsch. (Focal Press).
Jessica is a contributing artist.
Newsweek
Jessica’s work was used to illustrate an article on memory in the December 10, 2007 issue.
Handelsblatt Weekend-Journal
On May 16th, Munich's Handelsblatt Weekend-Journal featured Jessica as part of an illustrated
feature on portrait photography. If you would like to read the article in the original
German, please download the PDF. We hope to post a translation soon.
Center of Photography in New York City.
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Interior Exposure
The New Yorker
Women Shooting Women
Oprah Magazine
