Jamey Stillings


About

Jamey Stillings grew up in Oregon, the son of two politically, environmentally and socially conscious parents, earned a BA in Art from Willamette University (1978), and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology (1982). His master's thesis, Nicaragua: A Society in Transition (1980-81), examined social and economic change in three rural Nicaraguan communities following the 1979 Sandinista revolution.

Over three decades, Stillings built a commercial photography business, integrating both fine art and documentary work. In 2009, Stillings embarked on a personal project, The Bridge at Hoover Dam, documenting its monumental construction over the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. The project became both a traveling exhibition and a fine art book (Nazraeli Press) with an essay by Guggenheim Fellow, William Fox. Work from the bridge project has been published in over twenty magazines around the world and has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2013 London exhibition, Landmark - The Fields of Photography, curated by William Ewing.

Stillings continues to seek new opportunities to integrate his aesthetic interest in the human-altered landscape with concerns for environmental sustainability. In October 2010, he commenced aerial photography over the future site of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. Now complete as of February 2014, Ivanpah Solar is the world's largest concentrated solar thermal power plant, with the capacity to produce 392 megawatts of electricity.

The project now has its own momentum. "The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar" has received First Place in the 2013 International Photography Awards (IPA) in the Editorial Environmental Professional category. First published in June 2012, by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography at The New York Times Magazine, the work has since been published around the world, including: TIME Magazine, Australian Public Broadcasting, B&W Magazine, Le Monde, Neue Energie, New Scientist, Newsweek Japan, NPR, The Picture Show, Orion Magazine, Time and Wired. Photographs from the project been exhibited in the United States, the Netherlands, London and Colombia. The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar will be published by Steidl in 2015.

Changing Perspectives: Energy in the American West, Stillings’ newest project, is building upon the Ivanpah Solar body of work. Changing Perspectives will broaden Stillings’ visual survey of contemporary renewable and fossil fuel energy production in the American West, with a long-term goal of developing this project into a global study.


Works

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