"Landscape as Photograph," a Zube Lecture Presented by Janet L. Pritchard

About the Talk

Pritchard will discuss her work in landscape photography. This talk will focus on her book, More than Scenery: Yellowstone, An American Love Story, an extended project in Yellowstone National Park, and her current project on the Connecticut River titled Abiding River: Connecticut River Views & Stories. Opportunities and limitations of the medium will be discussed throughout.

About the Speaker

Before becoming a photographer, Janet L. Pritchard was an outdoor education instructor, spending her youth between the Northeast and the Rocky Mountain West in the US. She describes herself as geographically bilingual. Her methodology, described as historical empathy, relies on archival materials to guide her depictions of landscapes at the intersection of nature and culture. Pritchard was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. She exhibits widely, and her recent project on Yellowstone National Park, titled More than Scenery: Yellowstone, an American Love Story, was published in 2022. Pritchard and her wife raised their three sons in the quiet northeast corner of Connecticut, where she is a professor and graduate advisor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Connecticut.