Artist Statement
The digital camera and the digital darkroom make photography the most ubiquitous of all art forms.
The artist photographer can be a reporter, portraitist, illustrator and create impressionist, abstract, futuristic art, and much more.
We try to make sense of a world that is never the same and never stands still. Many photographers freeze a moment in time to capture what they saw and experienced. That is just one aspect of what photography can do.
Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), Infrared, Multiple Exposures, and the digital darkroom are tools that I use to share the emotions and feelings that prompted me to press the camera shutter at that moment.
I do not follow the “rules” to achieve my artistic vision.
These images convey my emotional response to the event or scene at that unique moment in time and I invite the viewer to share my vision and journey.
ed. I currently live in Boca Raton, Florida.
About Art Jacoby
As a Boy Scout I begam taking photos.
However, it wasn't unitl the advent of digital cameras, and the digital darkroom that photography became a passion.
Photography is an Art and as in all the Arts, there are no fixed formulas or right or wrong approaches.
My degrees are a BA from Rider University, MS from Hofstra University, and EdD from Fordham University.
Career: Vacum cleaner sales person, High School Socal Studies teacher, Teacher Trainer, College Professor, Administrator and Alcohol/Drug Counselor .
In addition to photography
I travel, fly fish, SCUBA dive, play old-time and Irish fiddle.
Currently: President of PASFLA (Photo Arts of South Florida); member of the BBCC (Boynton Beach Camera Club); FC3 (Florida Camera Club Council) ; member of PSA; member/organizer for (TAOP) The Art of Photography International in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. My artistic vision has developed through my participation in PSA and TAOP. I was born and lived in NYC and currently live in Boca Raton, Florida.
Recent Awards
2022 Black and White Magazine Special Edition Portfolio - Excellence Award - Buffalo Dancers
2021 Black and White Magazine Digital Manipulation - Winner - Moto Cross Rider
2021 Black and White Magazine Digital/Analog Manipulation - Winner- Single Image: Coming Home, Fiddler Montego Bay
2019 Arthur R Marshall Everglades National Park Photo Competition -
Best in Show - Kung Foo Fighters
2013 Photographic Society of America (PSA) - Best Environmental Portrait
