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Jessica's first monograph, Interior Exposure, was released in 2008 by Damiani.
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." Read the rest of PDN's citation here.
Appearances
In December 2008, Jessica accepted Google's invitation to speak about Interior Exposure
as part of a wide-ranging series of talks at the company's California headquarters.
You can see a video of Jessica's address here.
Exhibits
Jessica's newest photographs can now be seen as part of "EXPOSED: Critical Mass 2009",
a celebratory exhibition designed to highlight the incredible work of the
Critical Mass Top 50.
From now until May 18th, visit Photography Center Northwest - located in
Seattle, Washington - to experience this groundbreaking show.
For details, visit PCNW online or download the press release.
From May 16 until October 11, 2009, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
hosted "The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography".
This polythematic exhibition of over 200 images will include work by Jessica,
Annie Leibovitz, Sally Mann, and many others.
For more information on "The Art of Caring" - now on a national tour -
please visit the NOMA website or read the related
post on the New Orleans Photo Alliance blog.
From September 5th, 2009, you can view three of Jessicas early portraits
as part of "What Were Collecting Now: The Family Photographed" at the George
Eastman House. Other works in the exhibition include vernacular
and studio work from Sally Mann, James Jowers, Milton Rogovin, Blake Fitch
Nicholas Nixon and more. Please visit Eastman House online for details.
Last year Jessica participated in "New Visionaires 2008", a show staged in association with the
2009 New York Photo Festival. Situated in Lower Manhattan's landmark Tobacco
Warehouse, this printed exhibition celebrated winners of the 2008 Festival awards.
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 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 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 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.
On March 22nd, Flak Photo - an online showcase of new and interesting photography
from around the globe - chose Jessica's "Self Portrait with Marshall, Allentown, Pennsylvania"
as its photograph of the day.
For more of Jessica's new work, visit her gallery.
You can read a new interview with Jessica at Michael Werner's excellent
contemporary photography weblog, Two Way Lens.
The New Yorker reviewed Jessica's photography as part of its "Galleries: Uptown" listing
in the May 12, 2008 issue, noting that her images "combine a lovely sense of intimacy with
a casually patrician formality".
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.
Newsweek
In the October 13th, 2008 issue, Jessica contributed to a spread celebrating young,
influential women. You can download
a PDF of each featured luminary by clicking
on the name of the person featured: Rosario Dawson, Sheryl Sandberg, Lisa Price,
Kimberley Peirce or Dara Torres. A second portrait of Rosario Dawson, actress and
cofounder of Voto Latino, comprised Jessica's contribution to the October 20th issue.
The Emma Willard Alumnae Bulletin
The spring 2008 issue of EMMA, The Bulletin of Emma Willard School, highlights
the publication of Interior Exposure with a two page spread.
Download the PDF here.
O, The Oprah Magazine
O featured Jessica's work in their March 2009 issue. For this assignment, Jessica
created portraits of women who have donated breast milk after the death of their
young children. You can also see Jessica's self-portrait on O's contributor page,
with a short interview.
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Contributors' Page.
In the August 2008 issue of O, read Francine Prose's full-page review
of Jessica's first monograph, Interior Exposure. Jessica's 'haunting' photographs,
writes Prose, "remind us how much and how little we understand about the
people we know and love best.' Download the PDF here.
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 .
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