ARTIST STATEMENT
As a self-taught photographer, I consider my photographic practice a visual meditation, an intuition formed by color, shape and light. It merges personal abstraction with street and documentary genres, often interpreting unexpected beauty in the vernacular. My portrait practice has a similar intuitive lens, one that is guided by the natural playfulness and spontaneity of childhood moments. Having worked with children in different roles (art teacher, tutor, caretaker, mentor) for 25 years (my best friends and I started our own summer camp on Cape Cod when we were 12!), nothing brings me more joy as a photographer than to capture these little personalities with the camera.
BIO
Jessica Hubbard Marr is an independent photo historian, photographer and archival assistant. She earned her Master’s in The History & Theory of Photography from Sotheby's Institute of Art in London in 2011 and her B.A. in English literature from Kenyon College in 2005. Her research has focused on photography from Latin America, with a specialization in the history of Mexican photography. Marr’s photographic work has been featured in a variety of literary journals since 2009, including Sarah Lawrence College’s LUMINA and Cerise Press. A nominator for the Prix Pictet since 2013, she collaborates with artists between the US, Mexico and Latin America as a writer, researcher, curator and consultant.
She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where her work is represented by Mariposa Gallery.
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.Jessica is scheduling kid portrait sessions in New Mexico only at this time. Post COVID-19 restrictions, she is able for hire elsewhere.
To schedule a kid’s portrait session, or for print inquiries, please contact: JHM@jessicahubbardmarr // (505) 440-8358
*Disclaimer that all the portraits on this site have the parental permission.*