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Jean Germain
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www.jeangermainphotography.com Jean Germain experiments with the camera to create impressionistic images and special effects in nature, places, wildlife, people and social events. Some of her techniques include creating images with rear projection through textured glass, Polaroid transfer, specialized filters, infrared black and white film, zooming effects and timed night exposures.
Although Germain's professional career did not begin in the area of photography, the evidence is clear that this medium has become her passion. She retired from a specialized career in education working in both the Head Start Program and with the gifted and learning disabled children for the New Rochelle Elementary school system.
One of her earliest involvements with photography came when she developed and administered an Experimental Photography Program for the Harrison School District in New York. She challenged the medium to successfully integrate classroom learning with the 'aesthetics of photography' as a tool to help students develop the difference between "looking and seeing."
As a founding member of the Jazz Club of Sarasota in 1980, she had the unique opportunity to become the Club's official photographer. This involvement helped to clearly point her way toward a more complete commitment to the camera and its many magical eyes.
No matter the subject; person, wildlife, man-made structure or event; Jean brings her unique vision into focus with the intervention of selected effect techniques, resulting in a continued exploration and examination of that fine line between "looking and seeing."
Germain currently divides her calendar year between Massachusetts and
Florida, trading places with chilling winters and steamy summers. She
served as a member on the board of the Sarasota Visual Art Center, and
maintains active memberships in the Sarasota County Arts Council, Women
Contemporary Artists, Arts and Cultural Alliance, Longboat Key Center for
the Arts, Florida Artists Group, Venice Art Center, Art Center Sarasota,
Photography Resource Center at Boston University and the Woodstock Art
Center, NY.
“Recently I had the pleasure of curating a world-class exhibition of
photography, which includes Ms. Jean Germain. I found her work to be
poetic and quietly personal, with dream-like overtones. She exhibits
strong humanist and empathetic sympathies toward her observed
subjects. Her work is aesthetically and visually pleasing.”
Morris Mitchell
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