ABOUT

Jessica Alderman grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts and attended a liberal arts high school called the Cambridge School of Weston where she first became interested in Photography. After working in the darkroom for 4 years under the instruction of Anne Rearick she published her first book called “The Children of Laos”. She continued her studies in Italy where she had the opportunity to enroll in studio photography courses at the Academia Italiana in Florence, Italy. During this time she had the opportunity to travel through different parts of Tuscany, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, Morocco, and Mexico.

Jessica graduated from The Colorado College in 2007, completing a degree in Microbiology with a minor in the Arts in Theory and Practice. While at Colorado College she published her second book, “Contours” which exemplifies the unity of different mediums of photography through the lines, layers, intersections, and contours of the images.

She is currently working for a small non-profit organization in Nepal teaching  a class on global leadership while she keeps up her passion for photography. While in Colorado, Jessica was an avid hiker and skier and has been able to take her camera on many adventures into the backcountry. Many of the nature and landscape photographs in the preceding albums come from her adventures in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, and different parts of New England including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Although her past work has centered much on classic styles of photography, Jessica is striving to bring together her two passions for healthcare and documentary photography. While in college she received a grant to go to Kenya to do a photographic comparison of The public health system at the Nakuru Provincial Hospital. An article about Jessica was published in the “Colorado College Bulletin”. Currently she is working on a project to document the midwifery in areas of conflict and disaster across the globe.

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