October 27, 2011

Photography mini-feature: Jennifer Tomaloff

signs

view of Chicago coming from Indiana @ ? 80mph

autumn lights (chicago)

Lighthouse resort

Long corridors in dreams always leave me with an unsettling feeling.

Blizzard Fence Lake view

Today's photography profile features the work of Jennifer Tomaloff, an artist from Racine, Wisconsin who I recently had the pleasure of meeting here in Chicago. I asked Jennifer if she might tell us a little bit about herself, and here's what she had to say...

"People live lives, of course, but those lives require a stage on which to be performed and carried out. It is the stage itself that interests me most. For me, photography is a means to capture the tiny spaces and the untold narratives. I am mostly unconcerned with the actors -- I want the ghosts. I am a treasury analyst by day, who finds monetary meaning within the grids of spreadsheets; during off hours, I attempt to find meaning within the largely ignored aspects of common existence."

Thanks, Jennifer! You can stop by her main Flickr photostream for more of her work; and I also encourage you to check out her latest book, Bending Light Into Verse II, in which various authors from throughout the Upper Midwest wrote new pieces based on specific images of hers. If you know of a photographer who should be featured here, by all means drop me a line at cclapcenter [at] gmail.com.

Filed by Jason Pettus at 11:02 AM, October 27, 2011. Filed under: Photography | Profiles |