Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Culture, Career, How-To | Grassroots Media for Artists & Indies | AI-Free
Jessamyn Lovell (b. 1977, Syracuse, NY) is a visual artist working with photography, video, and surveillance as tools to document her own life experiences making connections between class and personal identity. BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology and MFA, California College of the Arts Lovell lives in Albuquerque, NM where she is currently a Lecturer in the Art and Art History Department at the University of New Mexico. Lovell’s work has been exhibited nationally, and she is the recipient of several awards, including the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the CENTER Excellence in Teaching Award. Lovell has received international recognition for her most recent work Dear Erin Hart, for which she found, followed and photographed her identity thief.
Last week I began working for a client who is unraveling the mysterious story of her missing husband. Yesterday I started looking for a missing cat. I’m compiling a witness list for a lawyer who has been generously giving me work to collect hours towards my P.I. license.
I became fascinated with how closely connected the power dynamic in the use of photography is with those at work in private investigation.
This week I got confirmation from the producer for “This American Life” that my story airs this weekend. It was as if it was cracking open all over again.