Jodie is fine art, contemplative photographer whose photographs focus on the poetry of intimate spaces, both wild and man-made. Her work has been strongly influenced by ancient Taoism, Chan and Zen Buddhism, Chinese landscape paintings, classical Chinese poetry and Japanese haiku. She has a degree in art from San Diego State University and discovered her passion for black and white photography in the 1970’s, influenced by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Edward Curtis and Walker Evans. Her love of nature, wilderness and the West came from her father.
In 2017 Jodie completed a month-long artist-in-residency at Zion National Park. In 2018 she was an award winner of the Center Choice Awards for her Left Behind work. And in 2019 she published Left Behind with Andy Burgess of Dark Spring Press. She has exhibited at the Center of Photography Arts in Carmel, Yosemite Renaissance Exhibitions, PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont, the Center of Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, CO and the Photographers’ Eye Gallery in Escondido, CA. She has been featured in On Landscape Magazine and Black and White Magazine (UK). Jodie lives in San Diego, CA.
“I regard my photography as “visual haiku” because of its poetic and contemplative quality. I have always been drawn to Asian poetics, art and philosophy, so it is no surprise that those aesthetics permeate the photography that I make. I also love texture and pulling out of chaotic scenes the essence of the beauty that I find there. My experience is that when beauty crosses our path, whether grand or humble, thought can disappear in an instant and a quiet stillness descends. In this way the experience of beauty is like a meditation, no matter how brief the encounter. Making these images is my way of honoring those moments when the universe offers us such gifts of beauty. These moments have the power to open our awareness to the innate inner silence that I believe we all share. It is my hope that these photographs will evoke this stillness in the viewer.”
