Jill Enfield is a Hudson Valley-based visual artist, known for her alternative process work in photography, an author and educator.

 

Jill’s books are used in schools world-wide, with her most recent book: “Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes” published in 2020.

 

Enfield’s work is a jumping off point of being a first generation American on her fathers side; second on her mothers. “The New Americans' project explores the immigrant experience, people that decided to come to the USA from the 1960’s onward. They portray the bravery it takes to pick up and leave one's homeland. A 3-dimensional glasshouse was made from windows, their distressed exteriors echoing the hardship of what it means to be an immigrant. This structure shares the ghostlike fragility of the glass panels that support portraits created using the wet-plate collodion process.

 

Her newest series “The Way Home”, started as an exploration of Enfield’s commute along the Hudson River and has evolved into a much bigger conversation about the state of the river, it’s towns and its history.

 

Enfield was a keynote speaker at the Symposium for Artistic Research in Analog Photography in Finland 2022 and her work can be seen in many collections.

Glasshouse of Immigrants
2017
Wet Plate Collodion Transferred Onto Windows
8’ x 8’ x 10’
Jacques Boris
2006
Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Kadidja Rae
2007
Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Celestin Coulibaly
2013
Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Orlando Condeso
2008
Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Szymon Markwat and Maciej Tracz
2009
Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Newburgh-Beacon Bridge
2022
Smart Phone To Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Storm King
2022
Smart Phone To Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Bannerman Island
2022
Smart Phone To Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Peekskill Waterfront
2022
Smart Phone To Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Bronx – Spuyten Duyvil
2022
Smart Phone To Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Cold Spring Station
2022
Smart Phone To Wet Plate Collodion Ambrotype
Taos Adobe
1999
Infrared Film - Hand Painted
Paris Bathroom
1990
Infrared Film - Hand Painted
Ocean Drive
1986
Cyanotype
Gramercy Park Umbrella
2000
Cyanotype
Penland Walk
2019
Wet Plate Collodion To Platinum/Palladium Print
Penland Ferns
2019
Platinum/Palladium Print

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Artist's Website

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