Photographer/ Writer Who better not quit his day job
There's an accomplished photographer out there named Jeffrey Chapman. Not me, sadly, but welcome to the site of the second-best photographer named Jeffrey Chapman on the web! My images have been…
Chosen for the 2022 Annual Contemporary Art Show, juried by James Barron, at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.
Selected for the 42nd Annual Photography Show, juried by Platon, also at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.
Published in Cagibi, a digital literary journal based in NYC.
Shown at the Artists Association of Nantucket Gallery, the Radius Gallery @ Arcstages, and the Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve (last two in Westchester County, NY).
Most days, however, I run marketing and communications for the Child Mind Institute, the leading independent non-profit dedicated to transforming the lives of children with mental health and learning disorders.
My photographic work centers on the beauty of the natural environment, or the ways people have created beauty in the built environment, sometimes despite themselves. I find myself increasingly obsessed with creating images that evoke mood, and an emotional sense of place, rather than literal representations. I’m especially fond of shooting places like Nantucket, where history is visually still with us.
My family moved to Maui when I was 15. That's when my Dad gave me a used Olympus OM-1 SLR and a few lenses in a hard case with foam cut-outs. Suddenly I looked like I was carrying the nuclear launch codes, I could take better pictures, and I lived in paradise!
That beloved camera was stolen from my first apartment after college graduation, and replaced by an OM-4 with a faulty electrical system that to this day fuels nightmares of losing the perfect shot to a jammed shutter. Photography faded from my life until my wife got me started again in 2007 with my first digital camera, a Sony point and shoot. A few pictures here date back to that humble but literally eye-opening device. Lately I shoot with a Canon 6D Mark II. If interested in prints, please email me at jeff@chapmanbrand.com.
Along the way, I've also written three speculative fiction novels, available in paperback via Amazon. Click on "Writing" to learn more.