Jed Tamarkin
Jed Tamarkin received his B.F.A. from Syracuse University and has been creating in New York City and the Hudson Valley Region for over 25 years.
Mediums he works in include photography, video, and found object, usually involving a component of digital manipulation or interactivity.
His commercial work for iconic brands such as Levi’s, American Express, Land Rover, and Google spans mediums and has been awarded by One Show, Webby’s, and Apple for creative excellence.
His images have been viewed by millions, on billboards from Times Square to Shanghai, and on the front pages of NYTimes.com and washingtonpost.com. His photography has been seen in over 138 countries, garnering coverage in The New York Times, USA Today, and Time Out NY.
Illustrations he created for the rock band O.A.R. were exhibited at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and album covers designed for the band reached RIAA gold certification.
Additionally, his feature film scripts have been recognized by Sundance and Slamdance Film Festival. He developed a half-hour pilot, “21 Wall Street,” at Amazon Studios, and his web series Train Gone Sorry is currently streaming on Amazon.
Artist Statement
I use high-resolution flatbed scanners to document nature and seasonal harvests from the Catskills region. Working directly with a flat-field lens maintains a uniform reproduction of the subject and, at magnification, when printed as a 40 x 40 inch giclée archival print, makes the work both highly detailed and physically immersive.
A cluster of mushrooms, a sunflower, or a lichen-covered birch branch, when captured at a precise moment along its cycle of growth and decay, becomes both a record of a precise moment in time and a proxy for its passing.
By isolating and elevating the natural world, I aim to slow the viewer’s attention, encouraging close looking rather than spectacle.
The project is inspired by the reality that only a small percentage of land ecosystems on the planet remain largely untouched. My property in Catskill State Park sits among protected forever wild land, where old-growth forests with minimal human intervention have persisted for centuries, sustained by millennia of ice melt that nourishes an extraordinary range of life. This body of work reflects both proximity to and reverence for the Hudson Valley watershed, treating each subject not as scenery, but as a singular presence worthy of sustained attention.
This is an ongoing project started in the summer of 2025.
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