about J.T. Blatty
Jenn Tuero (J. T.) Blatty was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1978. She graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2000 and served six years as an active-duty U.S. Army officer, which included first-rotation combat deployments into Afghanistan and Iraq. After completing her service to the military and inspired by a love of capturing life, people and her personal experiences with disposable cameras, notebooks, and pens, she pursued photography and writing as her career. She currently resides in New Orleans, where she returned in 2010, after a photo internship with National Geographic Traveler. In addition to working commissions for private and commercial clients, she is also a regular contributor to The New Orleans Advocate and a FEMA Disaster Reservist photographer. Blatty's work has been exhibited in the Multimedia Moscow House of Photography in Russia, the Borges Cultural Center in Argentina, the Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, and, on multiple occasions, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, among other museums and galleries. Her photographs and articles have appeared in CNN Photos, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, The Oxford American, National Geographic Traveler, Charleston Magazine, Savannah Magazine, the Delaware News Journal, and the Sentinel, among many others. In between photography projects and commissions, Blatty has been writing a book about her experiences in the military during a time of combat and the challenges and adaptations she faced as a young adult graduating from West Point a year before 9/11.
Select Publications and Clients
• Aloft Hotels
• The New Orleans Advocate
• Charleston Magazine
• CNN Photos
• Connect Savannah Magazine
• Delaware News Journal
• FEMA, Department of Homeland Security
• Fraction Magazine
• Hilton Garden Inn Hotels
• HRI Properties
• Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
• LENSCRATCH
• National Geographic Traveler
• Newsweek/The Daily Beast
• Oxford American
• PDN Online
• Plates-to-Pixels
• Savannah Magazine
• The Sentinel Newspapers
• Weather.com/The Weather Channel
Select Awards and Accolades
• Finalist, CDS Lange-Taylor Prize, 2015
• Honorable Mention, Telfair Art Fair 2015
• Finalist (Fish Town), Critical Mass, 2013
• Finalist (Fish Town), Clarence John Laughlin Award, 2013
• Finalist (Fish Town), Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Grant, 2013
• CENTER: Review Santa Fe (Fish Town), 2013
• 1st Prize, Environmental Issues, Annual Pollux Awards, 2011
• 1st Prize, Fine Art, Professional Single Image, June Pollux Awards, 2011
Solo Exhibitions
• Happy Dogs, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2015
• Parallel, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2012
Select Group Exhibitions
• Recollections, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, 2017
• Louisiana Photography Biennial, New Orleans Art Center, La, 2016
• Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, 2015-2016
• New Orleans in Photographs, Multi-Media Museum/Moscow House of Photography, Russia, 2014
• TIME, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography/Museum of New Art, MI Jul 2013
• Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, Nov 29 2012 - Jan 6 2013
• FROZEN WORLD, Photo Annual Awards, Teplice/Czech Republic, 2012
• 25th International Exhibition of Animals in Art (Group), LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, 2012
• International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (Group), Borges Cultural Center, Argentina 2012
• NOIR, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 2011
• Science, Poetry and the Photographic Image, SPE, Atlanta, GA and Phoenix, AZ, 2011
• DIA Invitational, C4FAP, Denver International Airport, 2007