Artist statement

My favorite saying in relation to my photography:

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,

but by the moments that take our breath away". (Unknown)

I often think of the effect my photography has on the viewers of my work. To make my viewers feel something and be moved by a photo that I've created makes the time I spend at it very rewarding.

Today I seek to capture and bring to light what most people take for granted. We rush through our days going from meeting to appointment missing the truly important part of our day which is just to be inspired by what God has put all around us.

For the most part I'm self-taught, except that my love of photography must start with my father, although he was not an artist but rather an engineer. He started my footsteps on this road some 33 years ago with the gift of that old camera and showing me how to develop black & white film. Since then many cameras have come and gone but always my love of photography is always there.

Jeff Folger

Next Showings

• Awards and Honors
  
• Selected by Yankee Magazine as best fall foilage submission, published.
  Received honerable mention (View from Abott Hall tower), King Hooper Gallery. Marblehead MA.
  Selected Juried Shows
  
• Marblehead Art Association, red, white, and blue juried show 2005
• Newburyport Art Association NewburyPort, MA. 2005 (2 shows here)
  Memberships
  
• PPA (Professional Photographers of America) member
• Marblehead Arts Association, (juried in as member artist since 2005)
• Newburyport Art Member
• Member National Association of Photoshop Professionals
  
• Commissions and sales
  
• Shubies, Marblehead MA. (image commisioned for box and bag of candy)
• Shipshape, Marblehead MA. (photo gift cards and 5x7 matted photos for sale)
• Marblehead Chamber of Commerce (photos used for tourist brochures)