In this conversation, Jessica discusses, among other things:

Mining family narratives

Focusing on what's in front of you

Working with light

The influence of teachers

Wrestling with the materiality of now

Transcending the ordinary

Photojournalism vs art

One ‘good’ photo a month

Life fitting into photography

Artist Resources/Inspiration

Interior Exposure by Jessica Todd Harper and Sarah McNear

The Home Stage by Jessica Todd Harper

Centre Claude Cahun

Rick Wester Fine Art

Kinship, The National Portrait Gallery

Bo Barlett at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Mothercraft, Toni Pepe

Undo Motherhood by Diana Karklin

Designing Motherhood

Hettie Judah

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

VERMEER, Mary Cassatt

Maine Media Photography Workshops

Arnold Newman

The Mount, Edith Wharton

The Clark Institute

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