MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: JEFF AMBERG
Photographer
ASMP Member since 1994
Email: jeff@jeffamberg.com
Instagram: @studiotenseventeen ( black and white portraits ) @1jeffamberg. (the everyday camera experience )
About
I began this journey at age 12 with my first camera. At 19 the inspiration to concentrate on photographing people in candid situations became real when I met a photographer from Charleston (SC) who showed me how to anticipate people’s reactions. At 29 my first job was at a small coastal resort town newspaper. I received both state-wide and regional awards for my work during my years as a photojournalist. In 1990 I decided to go out on my own, and during the next 30 years, I concentrated on the beauty of light. As a visual explorer, I constantly see my surroundings as creative inspiration, including one of two on-going projects, My Backyard, and The Artists Volume One
As a visual explorer, my goal is to bring to life, in photography, things not often considered due to the fast pace of today’s everyday experience. To slow it down visually and give pause to what and whom that are the very fabric of our lives that may escape our eye.
Education
BA, Journalism, concentration in Photography, University of South Carolina
Professional Experience
2020-Current Personal Projects, Black and White Studio Portraits
1990-2019 Commercial and Editorial Photography
1980-1989 Newspaper Photographer, The Island Packet, The ( Columbia, SC ) State
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
1980-1989 Numerous State and Regional Awards, NPPA
1995-2005 Three Silver ADDYs
Installations and Shows
2024 Photo SC, Surreal, A celebration of honoring the beginning of surrealism in photography. Single entry color print.
2024 Artfields 36×24 Chaos from Within color photograph printed on canvas
2023 Photo SC The Night, single entry black and white print
2023 Street Light, color photographs, multi-page spread, The Columbia Metropolitan Magazine
2019 Paradolia, color photographs, multi-page spread, The Columbia Metropolitan Magazine
2014 Organic Abstracts, a series of Intentional Camera Movement images, including 26 canvases of various sizes, permanent display. Dr. Robert Lowery, Charleston, SC
2013 Organic Abstracts, a series of Intentional Camera Movement images, including 13 large canvases permanent display. Dr. Nettles Green, Columbia, SC
2006 The Palmetto Portrait Project, sponsored by The Medical University of South Carolina and The Halsey Institute. 24 South Carolina photographers produced 10 portraits of people in South Carolina. The print collection of more than 200 11×14 prints are displayed one the walls of MUSC’s common areas as a reminder to the students that these are the people they are going to be serving. A duplicate; set of prints is in The South Carolina State Museum’s permanent collection.
