VIDEO POSTED: Twosday Talks with Jackie Neale and Mel Evans

Jackie Neale

Jackie Neale is a New York | Philadelphia based artist, photographer, imaging specialist, photo director and producer, and author with a focus on using historical, traditional, digital and experimental processes for multimedia documentary portrait projects. Jackie resides as Professor of Photography at Saint Joseph’s University and New York Film Academy in New York City. Jackie is most well known for her work in social activism chronicling the experience of Immigration in the U.S. and Europe in her work, Crossing Over: Immigration Stories and her work of over 800 photographs taken of the NYC quotidian underground subway for the resulting monograph, ‘zines and multimedia exhibitions and lectures on, #SubwaySeries. Jackie’s pedigree is working as Senior Imaging and Photography Director of award-winning Metropolitan Museum of Art Online Feature Productions: The Artist Project, 82nd and Fifth, MetCollects, One Met. Many Worlds, The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, and Connections. Jackie has since opened Big Day Film Collective, a film and experimental photographic gallery in Greater Philadelphia. She presents her artworks and lectures for international audiences such as Paris College of Art’s Blurring the Lines Photography Conference, European Cultural Centre Academy Biennale 2019 in Venice, Italy, and Six Feet Photography. Jackie is the co-author of 30-Second Photography. Jackie is continuing her alternative processes multimedia social documentary on immigration and human rights in Fall 2022 where she will be partnering with NGOs in Malta on artist residency at Spazju Kreattiv.

Webpage: https://archive.jackiephoto.com/index/G0000u3SJgEuJNBQ

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealjackiephoto/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackiephoto

Crossing Over: Immigration Stories is a storytelling documentary using large format cyanotypes as portraits to accompany interviews on living on the border of Mexico, within Mexico, immigration to the United States, and Europe via Italy. This project intends to discuss immigration in various forms; residency, citizenship, educator, asylum seeker, emigrant, and immigrant. © 2018 Jackie Neale ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. IMAGE NOT TO BE USED WITHOUT PERMISSION.

Mel Evans

As a photojournalist for over 40 years, I’ve made photographs nearly every single work day. I try to make every photograph as interesting and artful as the situation allows. I am proud and grateful that thousands of my images have been published in newspapers, magazines and websites, not just in the United States, but around the globe. –But ultimately, those images were for someone else. I retired from the Associated Press in 2017. Old habits are hard to break, I still take editorial and commercial assignments. But as I unwind that part of my career where I made photographs to satisfy the needs of others, I’m becoming more determined to make images and work on projects that satisfy me. I’m taking a serious approach to alternative and historic processes in large format and trying to learn as much as possible from and to honor those who went before.

Mel is a founding member of the Monalog Collective. They are a group of photographers using only historic analog processes. https://monalogcollective.com

Webpage: https://melevans.photoshelter.com/archive

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