Jennifer Bishop (photojournalist)

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Jennifer Bishop
American photojournalist Jennifer Bishop with a camera.jpg
Born (1957-05-01) May 1, 1957 (age 65)
NationalityAmerican
Education Phillips Academy (1975)
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University B.A. 1979 [2]
AwardsMaryland State Arts Council Awards (2018, 2012, 1993, 1989) [3] [4]

TASH Positive Images award (2011) [5]

Arc Award of Excellence (2007) [6]
Website jenniferbishopphotography.com

Jennifer Bishop is an American photojournalist based in Baltimore who is notable for her street photography. [2] [7] [8] [9] [10] [1] [11] [12] She was one of the founders of the alternative weekly Baltimore City Paper when it began publishing in 1977, [13] and she contributed photographs consistently to the publication from its inception to 1994. [7] She was given her own space, choosing pictures which were "unfettered by second-guessing editors", in which she often recorded "the quirky moments, sudden epiphanies, visual paradoxes and poetic ironies that define the strangeness of everyday life", often of "gritty inner-city neighborhoods." [1]

Bishop contributed photographs to the Baltimore Sun , Baltimore City Paper , Baltimore News-American , The Washington Post magazine, Health magazine, People magazine, USA Today and other publications. [7] [8] [9] [1] [11] [14] In addition to her commercial work for foundations and advertising agencies and institutions, including hospitals with a focus on children and medicine, much of her career has been devoted to chronicling the city of Baltimore. [3] Her work often focuses on advocacy for people with disabilities. [5] [13] In 2006, she started Maryland's first Heart Gallery , a photo exhibit to promote the adoption of children with special needs. [14] [10] [13]

According to the magazine Baltimore Fishbowl, Bishop's documentary style is "quirky and deeply humanistic" with a "compassionate knack for capturing people" in "circumstance-revealing moments." [7] According to Glenn McNatt of the Baltimore Sun , she has an "immensely sensitive antenna for the emotional emanations of ordinary people, conveying the mystery and wonder of everyday life." [1] Critic Michael Olesker wrote that Bishop "denies us cheap sentimentality" and that her pictures offer "wry ironies that look unsettlingly like the truth." [12]

Bishop shot many of her photos on Tri-X film with a minimum of equipment, usually in black and white. [1] Since 2004, she employs color digital photography, shooting with a Nikon mirrorless Z series camera, sometimes converting her images to black and white. [2]

Bishop was born in Cleveland and grew up in Tyringham, Massachusetts.

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