JT (“Jenn”) Blatty graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2000 and served six years as an active duty Army Officer. After her service, which included first rotation combat deployments into Afghanistan and Iraq, she pursued photography and writing, working freelance for Connect Savannah Magazine and private clients while developing her creative portfolio and exhibiting locally in Savannah and Atlanta. In 2010, after interning with National Geographic Traveler in Washington DC, she published Who Dat Nation, a photographic book capturing the ebullient spirit of New Orleans during the days leading up to and through Super Bowl XLIV.

Most recently, she was awarded 1st Prize in the Environmental Issues Category of the 2011 Pollux Awards (WPGA) for images from her photo documentary, “I’ve fallen in love with the pelicans,” and another 1st Prize for her image, “the Strobe,” in the Fine Art category of the June edition Pollux Awards 2011. Her work will be included in the International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography at the Borges Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina in January 2012, and was recently shown in the group exhibition, NOIR, at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery in November 2011, and in the Society for Photographic Education’s Women’s Caucus traveling group exhibition: Science, Poetry and the Photographic Image, last showing at Arizona State University’s Northlight Gallery in October 2011.

Her editorial publications include National Geographic Traveler, Savannah Magazine, Connect Savannah Magazine, Cemetery Dance Magazine, Orato, The Sentinel (Prince George County), and the Delaware News Journal. She will also be published in four 2011 WPGA books: Best Shot, Storyteller, Portraits and People 2011, and The Beauty Around Us.

JT’s current work in progress, Parallel, explores the symmetry between fossils of prehistoric creatures and the human form. It is scheduled for exhibition at the Martine Chaisson Gallery in New Orleans in May 2012.