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, deploying with the first troops into Afghanistan following 9/11 and again into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 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 as a freelance photographer, she is also a represented artist, a correspondent for 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 the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, among other museums and galleries. Her photographs and articles have appeared in PDN Magazine, CNN Photos, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, the Oxford American, National Geographic Traveler, Charleston Magazine, Savannah Magazine, U.S.A. Today, and Smithsonian Magazine, among many others. Her long term documentary project, Fish Town: Down the Road to Louisiana's Vanishing Fishing Communities (2012-2017), is a Fall 2018 book title under UVA Press/George F. Thompson Publishing.
J.T. is currently engaged with two military related projects, writing a book about the experiences in the military during a time of combat and the adaptations she faced as a young adult graduating from West Point a year before 9/11, and the other a documentary project working with the volunteer soldiers and veterans of the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. This project, Front Line, Peace Life, will be exhibited at the National Ukrainian Museum of Chicago, opening May 31, 2019, and at the Ukrainian Institute of America in January 2020.
Select Publications and Clients:
Air BnB, Aloft Hotels, The New Orleans Advocate, Charleston Magazine, CNN Photos, Connect Savannah Magazine, Delaware News Journal, Department of Homeland Security, Fraction Magazine, Hilton Garden Inn Hotels, HRI Properties, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, LENSCRATCH, Major League Baseball, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Oxford American, PDN Magazine, Plates-to-Pixels, Savannah Magazine, The Sentinel News, Savannah Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, U.S.A. Today, Weather.com/The Weather Channel
Select Awards and Accolades:
• Winner: Tuscany Writeaway Scholarship, 2018
Elva Resa Publishing/Books Make a Difference/Writeaways
• 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:
• Front Line, Peace Life: Ukrainian Institute of American, NYC, January 2020
• Front Line, Peace Life: National Ukrainian Museum of Chicago, May 2019
• FISH TOWN, Martine Chaisson Gallery, Sep 2018
• 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