JACKIE ALPERS | Food Photographer | Arizona, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco
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| Jackie Alpers is an award winning professional photographer based in Tucson, Arizona. She specializes in documenting people, culture and food related themes for commercial advertising and editorial assignments; cookbooks and book jackets. She is especially interested in the emotional, psychological and spiritual relationship that people have with food and drink. Food lends itself to vast symbolism and interpretation and she loves the rituals surrounding it. Her clients include: Random House, Knopf, Simon & Schuster, The Globe Pequot Press, Sterling Publishing, Canyon Ranch, Loews Hotels, NBC/Universal, Epicurious.com, U.S. News & World Report, Real Eats Magazine, AARP Magazine and The U.S. White House. She is the recipient of numerous awards from American Photography, The Photographer’s Master Cup, ASMP and the International Photography Awards (Lucie’s). In 2004 she received the the Black & White Spider Award’s, Merit of Excellence, and in 2001 she was awarded a bronze medal from the London Photographic Awards. She is also an experienced educator who speaks on industry related topics at workshops and universities. Bibliography & Appearances 2013 Photography Masters Cup Nominee for Food Photography 2012 Angry Birds: Bad Piggies Best Egg Recipes Interactive cookbook 2012 Reader's Digest feature: Happiness 2012 CNN Interview 2012 Good Morning America 2012 International Photography Award for Food Photography 2012 FoodPrint: Annuaire del la Gastronomie 2012 Tucson Official Visitors Guide 2011 Angry Birds: Bad Piggies Egg Recipes, Rovio Entertainment 2011 Phoenix Official Visitors Guide 2011 NY Times Interview 2010 Tag Magazine #2, The Body Issue 2010 The Official Arizona State Visitor’s Guide 2010 Mexican Cooking, Globe Pequot Press 2010 The Calorie Counter Cookbook, Globe Pequot Press 2010 Knack Low Salt Cooking, Globe Pequot Press 2009 A History of Ghosts – cover photograph 2009 Vanilla Ride, Knopf – cover photograph 2008 Tucson Weekly – Interview 2008 Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls, Simon & Schuster, Cover Photograph 2008 American Photography 24 2008 The World’s a Mom: Celebrating Motherhood, Author & Photo Editor; Sterling Publishing 2007 American Photography 23 2007 Heartsick, St. Martin’s Minotaur, Cover Photograph 2007 How Magazine – Interview 2007 Area of Design – Interview 2006 Pesach for the Rest of Us, Random House, Cover Photography 2006 F-shop Magazine, Cover and Feature Article 2006 Creatively Self Employed, Contributing Writer 2005 Photo District News – Interview 2004 Arizona 24/7, contributing Photography 2001 The Photo Review, Volume 24, Issue 3. Langhorne, PA 1998 Water Marked by Helen Lee, Scribner Books, Cover photography 1997 Unearned Pleasures & Other Short Stories by Ursula Hegi, Simon & Schuster, Cover photography Exhibitions 2009 The Spirit World, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, Juror Russell Joslin 2009 Idea of Self, Center for Fine Art Photography, Juror Susan Zadeh 2008 Society of Photographers, 6×6 Exhibition, Rooke Gallery, South Africa 2007 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Denver Int. Airport Invitational 2007 Volitant Gallery, Austin, “Tunnel Vision: Parading Down the Aisle 2005 Caladan Gallery, “Myths, Mystery and Ritual: A Portal into the Night” 2004 The Nocturnes, Best of the Nocturnes 2003 The Nocturnes, Surrealism Show, Honorable Mention 2003 Texas Photographic Society, Members Only Show 2002 MetroForm Limited, Tucson, AZ, Solo Exhibition 2002 River City Silver, San Antonio, TX 2002 Inside Space, London, England 2002 Nexus Gallery, New York City, NY, “Photography 2002” 2001 Mesa Contemporary Arts, AZ, “Stare Photographic Survey”, Purchase Award 2001 Robert Caniga Gallery, Eugene OR. “Totally Nude” Group Exhibition |
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