Biography

Jennifer Shaw is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. She spent most of her formative years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she first learned her way around the darkroom at the age of fifteen. She immersed herself in the medium, and went on to study it at the Rhode Island School of Design, earning a BFA in Photography in 1994.

Curiosity led her to New Orleans, where she has been pursuing her art ever since. After many years of employment in a custom photo lab she is now freelancing, with a concentration on her personal work and custom portraiture. She has recently begun teaching photography part time at the Louise S. McGehee School.

Jennifer’s work has been featured in several issues of Shots Magazine, as well as Light Leaks Magazine and The Sun. Her photographs have won awards in national exhibitions, and are held in both private and public collections, including the Huntsville Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Publications:
B&W Magazine, Spotlight, Issue 51, June 2007
The New Orleans Review, 34:2, Spring 2007
Light Leaks Magazine, October 2006
Voix du Vieux, September 2006
Shots 92: Documentary & Photojournalism Issue, Summer 2006
Katrina Exposed: A Photographic Reckoning, Exhibition Catalog, 2006
Shots 89: The Portfolio Issue, Autumn 2005
The Sun, Issue 349, January 2005
Shots 83, February 2004
Shots 80, June 2003
Triennial Southeastern Juried Exhibition Catalog, 1999
The Red Clay Survey Exhibition Catalog, 1998

Awards:
2003 Individual Artist Mini-Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts

2000 First Place, Cemeteryscape 2000

1999
Individual Artist Mini-Grant, Louisiana Division of the Arts
Honorable Mention, The Art of Photography
Honorable Mention, Southeastern Juried Ehibition

1998 Juror’s Award, 20x20x20: A Compact Competition

1993 T.C. Colley Memorial Scholarship