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 the American Society of Media Photographers in New York and won 3^rd 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.”