About Jeanne Tifft - fine art & stock photography

Assignments accepted for the services listed below:

• customized color printing of your images as exhibition prints or greeting cards
• individual or group tutorials on digital photography, image management, and Photoshop
• documentary and photojournalistic work, from nonprofit nongovernmental organizations which work either in the Mid-Atlantic region or internationally
• environmental, onsite portraiture of individuals, families, homes, gardens, and pets

My Camera and Me

I follow my visual delights. Sunlight is my paintbrush, revealing spaces, shapes, rhythms, textures, gestures, and colors, in a visual experience at once specific and ambiguous. I respond as a photojournalist to what is there, to what I see as real, adding what I feel or think about it.

In fine art and personal work, I seek ambiguity that hovers between pure abstraction and hard reality, between two dimensions and three, between photograph and painting. Currently I'm exploring water, rivers, and seas, both as unique shapes and as a necessity of life on earth.

I document historic sites, archaeological sites, and cultural expressions that appear in peoples' dress and behavior, as well as in their buildings and spaces. In exploring well known places I bring a fresh personal viewpoint. I look for touching and amusing interactions between people, their animals, and their natural and built environments. The little incidents, labors, spiritual practices, tasks, and contemplations of everyday life are an endless source of wonder, fascination, or amusement, as are unselfconscious juxtapositions of tradition and modernity, as though past and present were interacting too.