Interview in PCNW Alumni News
Thank you to Joan Dinkelspiel for interviewing me about my work which is featured in the Winter issue of the Photographic Center Northwest Alumni News. I will be helping interview other alumni in future issues.
Boris in all seasons featured in Birds Take Flight, January 2025 at VCA Gallery
My true love is working in nature with models like Boris the Swan who I find fascinating and reflect more to me than I know. I stay open to what is before me and always nature meets me in ways I never expect. Boris lived alone on a beautiful Vashon Island pond. Legend has it that he lost his mate and fell in love with a Canadian goose. Every spring he would make a nest and hope she would take notice of him. I spent a year photographing this regal bird who was not shy of me or my camera.
Four of my photos of Boris are featured in Birds Take Flight at Vashon Center for the Arts in January 2025.
The show opens Friday, January 3 with a reception from 5-8 pm.
Just published! My first issue of the unknown photographer: CLOAKED
I had a great time sharing my new photo zine last Sunday at the 2024 PCNW Photo Zine and Book Fair. Lots of zine fans and book lovers were there, and I loved reconnecting with my PCNW alumni friends. It is hard to believe it has been over 25 years since I started taking classes there. I earned a Fine Art Photography certificate in 2000. In classic zine tradition, I xeroxed the first issue, since I didn't have much time to write, design and produce it. I loved the challenge to create it in a month. And, as a result I discovered that the "zine" is a perfect way to self publish the story of the unknown photographer as a serial. Thank you to all who came to the fest and especially to those who took a look at my zine and purchased it.
New Work in the works: The Sibyl and the Fox
Is this a story about fate? asked the Fox.
Yes, said the Sibyl.
Is that why you are here?
Yes.
Love is tricky.
Yes.
Like a fox.
Murmur opens August 11 at Vashon Center for the Arts
I’ve photographed in the forests, marshes and on the beach, but never in the sea around Vashon Island. This led me to exploring with an underwater camera for the first time. Like many of my photo narratives, Murmur intermingles my story, myth and the natural world. See portfolio.
Murmur
New work by Jenn Reidel
August 11-26, 2023
Opens Friday, August 11, 5-8 pm
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Vashon Center for the Arts
19600 Vashon Highway SW
Vashon, WA 98070
Gallery open Wed-Sun, 12-5 pm
Published in 3 Elements Winter 2023 issue
In my shipwreck abandon, wonder where to breathe, wonder where it is safe, wonder how long I can hold, my breath finally a wonder.
On the last day of summer, during the last minutes before the sun set over the Olympic Mountain range, I was happy my model wanted to brave the cold Salish Sea again for another dive in my Phoenix costume. I witnessed how the water and her graceful movements seemed to set the water ablaze in fiery bursts of light.
I created the images to be included in my narrative series Rodin's Photographer. When I saw the 3 Elements theme "Shipwreck" I submitted "The Phoenix in the Sea." It was wonderful news that it was selected to be featured in the free online Winter 37 issue.