Jeneen Hobby

Henri Cartier-Bresson said it is an illusion that photographs are made with the camera. A photograph, he said, is created through a “joint operation of the brain, the eye, and the heart.” The world is movement. Photography freezes moments in time, isolates them from an everchanging present. A picture of great energy can result. When I shoot, I put the viewer “in” the image, dwelling within it, not seeing it from afar. My goal is to bring the viewer so close, that they enter the frame. If a scene made my heart race, stopped me in my tracks, I hope your heart will race, you will be stopped in your tracks. My mission is to unearth and reveal beauty that goes unnoticed or is neglected. Jeneen Hobby began photographing with a Pentax K-1000 in the 1980s. She exhibits her work and has won awards at juried fine arts festivals, in solo and group shows, in galleries, museums, institutes, and online.