Jennifer Shaw is a fine art photographer whose work is based on both a world observed, and a world constructed, often focusing on the fleeting and personal within the sphere of her immediate surroundings. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and earned a BFA in photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. She then moved to New Orleans in pursuit of the artist’s life, where she currently teaches the disappearing art of darkroom photography at the Louise S. McGehee School. Shaw’s photographs have been featured in Oxford American, Black + White Photography (UK), and Lenscratch, and are published in two monographs: Hurricane Story (Chin Music Press), and Nature/Nurture (North Light Press). Her work is exhibited widely and held in collections including the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. In 2020, Shaw was selected as a finalist for the 1858 Prize.