Once upon a time cameras were used only by professional photographers
Jessie I. Luke
Fine Arts Photographer
Jessie
I. Luke is recognized for her incredible images created with a plastic toy
camera, called the Holga.A variety of her images from her Ghost
Series have been exhibited in Art Galleries across the United States
including California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Virginia and
Washington.Four of
her compelling HOLGA works were showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Jacksonville, Florida.In 2009,
she entered a national
photography competition from theAmerican Society of
Media
Photographers in New York and won 3rd place in the student category with
her most fascinating image “Unbreakable.”
Luke received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in
Photography, graduating Magna Cum Laude at the University of North Florida.
Her first photo
series “The Little Kodaker,” involved old Kodak
cameras, and ten of her photographs were exhibited in The Art & Soul
Gallery at the Women's Center of Jacksonville. She spent
several years working on her second Holga series,
“A Journey to Wonderland.” Her documentary films include the making of “A
Journey to Wonderland,” the “Technical Aspects of the Holga
Camera,” and the “History of Photography and Vantage Cameras.” Currently,
Luke is working on her new Holga series
“Ballerinas.”
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