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Jenny Ellerbe Biography
Jenny Ellerbe is a self-taught photographer living in Monroe, Louisiana. Some of her first photographs, taken as a teenager, were of the bayou that meanders through her hometown and the flow of that early work continues today. Nearly all of Jenny’s photographs are taken within sixty miles of her home.
After a twenty-year career as a Pediatric Intensive Care nurse, and after returning to Louisiana from Connecticut, she put down the tools of her previous life, picked up a kayak paddle and a camera and started over. Jenny rediscovered the wetlands of northeastern Louisiana and probed their depths with the reverence of a first time explorer.
For the past several years she has been developing a fine art study of northeastern Louisiana - the overlooked region that lies between the Mississippi and Ouachita Rivers - entitled "Rooted Firmly in Place." She has wandered along the bayous and through the vast farmland and rural communities that rise from it collecting photographs - images that tell the story of this land and what it gives to those who live here season after season, generation after generation.
Jenny’s goal is not just to document this area but to really crawl inside it and see what makes it unique. In black & white she is able to get closer to the bones of what she is photographing and discover images she never imagined existed. Those discoveries, along with the sheer joy experienced through her camera continue to inspire Jenny Ellerbe’s work. return to top of page
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