I think a quote from the New Yorker explains Jessica Harper's work better than I ever could,
"Harper's domestic scenes - large color photographs featuring her family, and, occasionally, herself - combine a lovely sense of intimacy with a casually patrician formality...with a painterly feel fordappled, natural light that makes some of the images glow as if from within... the work is sincere, even seductive..."
- Vince Aletti, THE NEW YORKER
I admire Jessica's work for many reasons. Her lighting and staging always feel so natural, even when she is able to capture a supernatural glow to her subjects. Every one of her subjects seem to feel at ease in front of her lense and even when making direct contact with the viewer. Truth seems to eminate in all of her works even when they are obviously staged.
Jessica's first book "Interior Exposure" won a first place Lucie award, and was listed in PhotoEye Magazine's Best PhotoBooks of 2008 and PDN's Best Photography Books of 2008. This book is what I would like to emulate as she concentrates on her family, their homes and the ordinary events that happen everyday. I would like to be able to capture the natural environment of my families as perfectly as Jessica is able to.
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