Jane Alden Stevens (stevenja)

Jane Alden Stevens is a fine art photographer inspired by history at every level – personal, familial, cultural, and global. Her photographic narratives examine and interpret the relationship between humans and the world they create for themselves. Her artistic practice draws on her inherent thirst for reading and research, as she studies aspects of psychology, sociology, art, religion, music, economics, agriculture, politics, and geography.

Stevens embraces all aspects of traditional and digital photographic technologies, choosing the technique that best suits the visual project at hand. She has created imagery with cameras ranging from a 19th-century Al-Vista panoramic camera to a state-of-the-art Nikon DSLR, as well as a Hasselblad medium-format camera and a handmade pinhole camera. Her printing techniques have included cyanotypes, printing on light-sensitive fabric, gelatin silver prints, and digital pigment prints.

Solo exhibitions of Stevens’s work have been mounted at the Dayton Art Institute, ARC Gallery in Chicago, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Stevens has exhibited extensively abroad, in Finland, Ukraine, Belgium, Germany, and Brazil. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York; the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin; the Cincinnati Art Museum; and the Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo, Brazil; among many others.