Jessica Todd Harper spent much of her childhood wandering around with a sketchbook, copying paintings.  This traditional artistic preparation took an unexpected course when she started making photographs as a teenager, but the familiar canvases of her childhood heroes- John Singer Sargent, Whistler, Vermeer- still have their influences today: She is interested in making emotionally charged portraits of people.

A New York Photo Festival 2008 award winner, a 2008 Lucie award winner, and a 2009 recipient of a PA Council for the Arts Grant, Jessica has been invited to talk about her work at such places as The International Center for Photography, NYC; Google Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA; and Aperture Gallery, NY.  Jessica's photographs have been discussed in Photo District News, Camera Austria, The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and The New Yorker.  Her first monograph, Interior Exposure (Damiani 2008) was selected by O:The Oprah Magazine as a top book recommendation.