Winter 2022 Studio Update

Hello Friends and Supporters,

I hope this message finds you healthy and well as we ease into the new year.  I am excited to begin my second semester as a visiting scholar at Rochester Institute of Technology where I am teaching a graduate-level alternative process class. It has been a real pleasure to work alongside the students as I develop a new body of work titled Thirteen Hours to Fall which includes salted paper photographs of the ghost forests on the eastern US shore. For real-time updates on this project, follow along on Instagram @margaret_lejeune

I am pleased to share that I was commissioned to write an article for Blue Journal, a publication of The TATTER Textile Library, an interactive, ongoing art-installation and academic research library in Brooklyn, New York. In The Blue of Bioluminescence I discuss how I began working with bioluminescent organisms and the ensuing cross-species collaboration that has developed over the last 7 years. The piece is beautifully designed and illustrated with several previously unpublished works. 

"The rhythm of the sea became the rhythm of our lives, dictating our movements and moods. The bioluminescent sighting set off a flurry of synapses and a flood of curiosity that fueled my desire to better understand marine ecology and the interconnections of life."

This month Urbanautica: Journal of Visual Anthropology and Cultural Landscapes published an in-depth and thoughtful interview with the Women's Environmental Photography Collective. This long-form article, which includes over two dozen works from our members, sheds light on who we are and the nature of the work we do. 

At the end of 2021 I was elected to serve on the Society for Photographic Education Board of Directors. As a long-time member of SPE, I am excited to begin this new chapter and to give back to this organization that has done so much to enrich the lives of photographers and educators. I am eager to work with current, past, and future members to extend the outreach of SPE and to help amplify the voices of diverse image-makers across the country and around the globe.  

Thank you for your continued friendship and support. I look forward to connecting with many of you on the east coast this summer as Jeff and I sail Bear from the Chesapeake up to Maine. Please keep in touch. 

Warm regards,
Margaret