CLIENTS

While much of my work is directly with individuals, artists, musicians, … I have had the great pleasure of working with many extraordinary organizations as well, including:

RECENT AWARDS

2021 IPA - Honorable Mention (Fine Art Portrait) “/ˈstandərˌdīz/”

2020 TIFA - Bronze (Editorial/Conflict) “Good Trouble”

2020 IPA - Honorable Mention (Event-Social Cause) “Good Trouble”

2020 IPA - Honorable Mention (People-Traditions/Culture) “Good Trouble”

2019 TIFA - Bronze (People/Portrait) “The Lincoln Dress”

2019 IPA - 2nd Place (Analog / Film, Portrait) “The Lincoln Dress”

2019 IPA - Honorable Mention (Fine Art / Portrait) “A trans*formative time”

2019 PX3 (Prix de la Photographie Paris) - Honorable Mention (Fine Art / People) “The Lincoln Dress”

2018 IPA - Honorable Mention (Advertising / Music) “Noree Chamber Soloists”

2018 IPA - Honorable Mention (People / Children) “Anonymous”

2017 TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards) - Silver (Advertising / Music)

2017 PX3 (Prix de la Photographie Paris) - Bronze (Advertising / Music)

2017 MIFA (Moscow International Foto Award) - Silver (Fine Art / Still Life)

2017 MIFA - Silver (Editorial / Personality) "Taboo: The Fight"

2017 MIFA - Bronze (Advertising / Music)

2017 IPA - 2 x Honorable Mention (Architecture) "Oz" & "The Highline

2017 IPA - 2 x Honorable Mention (Fine Art) "Oz" & "Mimi"

2017 IPA - Honorable Mention (Portrait)

JEREMY AMAR

Artist & Teacher

Visual Breathing

I was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, a factory town (“Lynn, Lynn city of sin”).

When I was six years old, my father’s job moved us to the emergent suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky. I grew up idly following storm drains, cutting paths through the waist-high field grasses. I was, and still am prone to unscheduled drifting.

My mother was a physical therapist, a visiting nurse. She truly loved what she did. The stories her patients shared with her, the moments of time they shared, in kitchens, bedside, are forever a part of who we are as a family.

My father was a human resources guru at a time when that idea was new. Often dressed in pink button-down shirts (with white collars), he offered civility, humor, and creative wisdom in equal measure to corporate execs and union assembly line workers.

For my brother and I, National Geographic offered a first provocative glance to the greater world. Our wanderlust was tickled by our always-traveling aunts and uncles who would regular.y send us Hindu comic books, post cards from distant planets, every type of exotic stamp and currency. Though diagnosed “near-sighted,” near was not our exclusive focus.

At 15, as a exchange student with AFS, I worked on a dairy farm in Belgium. I spent my junior year of college studying at the Sorbonne and Institut Catholique in Paris, France. And, after graduating from Kenyon College in rural Ohio, I interned for a South Indian film production company, living in Hyderabad and Chennai, India.

Since moving to Brooklyn in 1994, I've been making images (of all shapes). It is a way to process my profound and un-quenched curiosity, to observe and nurture, to grapple with what's human in all of us. I am, still, and always will be, a romantic dreamer, with deep existential concerns. Art gives me permission, a license to visit and receive the lives of others, the courage to really meet people, and the passion to observe and honor the most intimate of human experiences and emotions. I call it "visual breathing."

In the fall of 2020, when the pandemic changed everything, I looked for ways I could better serve community. I found a new path, I am becoming a teacher.

“…I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something. Then I realized I was somebody.” - Lily Tomlin

“…to be somehow an occasion for someone else’s exuberance.” - Rebecca Solnit

"...if you’re going to love, why not have the broadest, deepest, self-emptying kind of love that embraces everybody?" - Cornel West. #radicallove

"The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody." - Albert Camus

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.” - Susan Sontag

“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.” - Haruki Murakami

"If transgression is at the very heart of photographic portraiture, then the ideal outcome - beauty, communion, honesty, and empathy - mitigates the offense. Art can afford the kindest crucible of association, and within its ardent issue lies a grace that both transcends and tenders understanding." - Sally Mann

“…it is possible to both understand and reject, to love and detest, to be loyal and question, and above all to continue to seek enlightenment out of the ambiguity and contradiction of all social existence.” - Norma Elia Cantú & Aída Hurtado (describing the work of Gloria Anzaldúa)