The Stories We Tell
Thom Jackson: in+site
Jennifer Pritchard: The Offing
Allison V. Smith: From West Texas to Maine
The Stories We Tell is a photography exhibition featuring Thom Jackson “in+site”, Jennifer Pritchard “The Offing” and Allison V. Smith “From West Texas to Maine”. All three artists are telling stories through the lens. While their works are very compatible, they each have decidedly unique qualities. Photography allows us to capture moments that are sometimes found by accident and sometimes captured through intentional effort.
Thom Jackson has spent most of his adult life as a fulltime photographer focusing on fashion and art. Jackson has traveled the world shooting for major fashion houses and magazines including Vogue, Italian Vogue, Italian Bazaar, W Magazine and The New York Times, to name a few. Jackson’s latest body of work, titled “in+site”, features two people that exist in the same location but are never actually together. He spells the word “site” because the images revolve in and around a modern house or site. We see them together but never interacting with each other. It makes us wonder if these two actually know each other and if so, what is their relationship? These beautifully shot, cinematic images do tell a story, but that story is up to the viewer to decide.
Jennifer Pritchard is a photographic artist and storyteller based in Laguna Beach, California. Her experience includes years as an innovative, creative fashion executive leading global brands - telling rich and compelling stories to engage and excite consumers. In 2015, her father's death inspired her to tell her own stories. Geographies have played an essential part in Pritchard’s perspective, whether the New England of her birth, Mid- Atlantic upbringing, Southern schooling, or internationally through her roles in Global Brand Leadership. In Pritchard, understanding places and their rich stories engendered a deep appreciation of the unique and the common. A natural curiosity combined with a paradox-filled childhood inspired explorations of life and loss, memory, and dreams across a diverse photographic and literary toolbox. Pritchard states “The Offing is an examination of the fluidity of time and the places where we find solace. February 2021 presented a perfect block of time, four, seven-day weeks stacked atop the other.
Allison V. Smith worked as a photojournalist for seven newspapers over 15 years after graduating from SMU Dallas TX, with a degree in journalism. In 2004, Allison left the Dallas Morning News to pursue freelance photography for editorial clients and fine art photography. Some of Allison’s clients include Texas Monthly, The New York Times, Nasher Sculpture Center and Le Monde Magazine. Her fine art projects include exploring the landscape and personality of Marfa, Texas and Rockport, Maine. Allison is in the permanent collection at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Dallas Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In addition, Allison and her mother published a book of Stanley Marcus’s photography in 2008 called Reflection of a Man.
Jennifer Pritchard, Time and Timelessness (1/15), 2022 Archival Pigment Print 18 x 27 in