Jackie Alpers

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Jackie Alpers
Columbus College of Art & Design
Occupation(s)Food photographer, cookbook author, writer
Websitewww.jackiealpers.com

Jackie Alpers (born 1968) is an American photographer and author of several cookbooks. She is a winner of the Black & White Spider Award's Merit of Excellence. She is known for her food photography, documentary-style portraits and photo-illustration.[1]

Biography

Jackie Alpers was born on April 1, 1968, in

Columbus College of Art & Design from 1987 to 1991, where she studied photography, painting, graphics, and illustration. She moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1993. There she spent four years as the managing photo editor at Swanstock, the fine art photography division of Getty Images. She is married to Jason Willis, they reside in Tucson. [citation needed
]

Food photography and writing

Alpers writes and photographs a monthly column for the

food blog Jackie’s Happy Plate has been featured in numerous online publications including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Glamour, Better Homes and Gardens, MSN and BuzzFeed.[citation needed
]

1997—2006

Alpers started her photography career with an illustration to one of the Ursula Hegi books in 1997. A year later, she did a cover photograph for Water Marked published by Scribner Books. The 21st century began with a bronze medal that she got at the London Photographic Awards and published in the 23rd and 24th volumes of American Photography. In 2005 she took an interview with Photo District News and in 2006 created a cover for F-shop Magazine and also for book Pesach for the Rest of Us which was printed by Random House.[2]

2007—2013

In 2007 she had two more interviews; one for Area of Design and the other for

AARP and Real Eats and publishers like Rovio Entertainment, Sterling, Quirk Books and Simon & Schuster.[2]

2014—2020

In 2014 she had two more interviews; one featured on the cover of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine and the other for

The Kitchn. In 2020 her cookbook Taste of Tucson: Sonoran Style Recipes Inspired by the Rich Culture of Southern Arizona was published by West Margin Press/Ingram Content Group, and the same year she was nominated for both the IPA/(Photography Masters Cup) and International Color Awards in food photography
.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Jackie Alpers's Biography". Red Room. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Jackie Alpers". Retrieved August 4, 2013.

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