Feature In Shutterbug Magazine
June 21st, 2020 - Bronxville, NY
Feature in January 2015 issue of Shutterbug Magazine:
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1948) wanted to reform art by replacing what it saw as a mechanistic approach with a return to the detail, intense colors and complex compositions of Quattrocento (late Middle Ages) Italian Art.
What does this have to do with Jessica Jenney? I don't know a better way to describe Jessica's painfully beautiful photographs that are collected into an understated site hosted on the Smuguug platform. She's arranges her main group of images in three collections entitled Landscapes, FLowers and Whimsical. Intimate Landscapes contains the essence of
Jessica's oeuvre, with impeccable compositions wrapped in a Pre-Raphaelite she says is achieved with "various treatments"
I don't care about the technical details involved because it all starts with a unique vision that she brings to these photographs, and all you have to do is peek inside these collections to know why.
In Iconic New York you'll find romanticized city images that Photo-secessionists might find hanging in Steiglitz's 291 Gallery, while her flower photography combines images with written text to create a serenity you won't find in typical nature photography.
Jessica's whimsical images won't make you smile but instead make you think. Here she blurs the line between illustration and photography, showing a virtuosity of craft, that if you've enjoyed the ride so far, you will find fascinating. And to me that best describes Jessica Jenney has created; fascinating.