Personal Surveys

Providence

The Photo Comp

Little Essex Street

Personal Calibration

52 Sundays

The Crosses of the
Northern Neck

About Jeffrey B. Evans

I have been living and working as a photographer in the New York City area since 1982. For me, photography is involuntary. There is no agenda for taking one particular shot - or not taking another. Photography is simply an expedient way to survey the world, to ascertain, to remember.

I have worked in obscurity - off the grid of the art dealers, collectors and curators. As a way to support myself as an artist and to have the resources to produce my art, I have worked commercially, shooting catalogs, printing murals and creating large graphics. In doing so, I have had to deal with a wide swath of high and low culture - creating exhibits and displays for clients ranging from auction houses and museums to porn magazines and movie companies. It is a weird mix of art, culture and capitalism, whose influence on me is certain. Once, I had to fake a Warhol soup can. The owner, who was broke, could then hang the fake on the wall and have the original auctioned anonymously, without any damage to their reputation. (The irony of a copy of a copy would not have been lost on the master).

My images of the last thirty years have been distilled into seven groups: Providence, The Photo Comp, Little Essex Street, Personal Calibration, 52 Sundays, Personal Surveys, and The Crosses of the Northern Neck.  With each one I have tried to preserve an aspect of our time.