Jena Ardell: Transporting you back in time...
Jena Ardell is part photographer, part time traveler. Her retro fine art photography looks so authentic, you'll swear you stepped aboard her time machine. Although she is an experienced digital retoucher, all of her Polaroid work is left unedited.
Jena's photography has been exhibited worldwide and has been published in the March 2011 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine; as well as the June 2011, July 2010, Nov 2009 and Aug 2009 issues of Elle GIrl Korea Magazine; and can be found as the cover art to a handful of novels.
Jena is a regular contributing writer and concert photographer for L.A. Weekly. You can view her author page here.
She earned second place in the online feature category at the L.A. Press Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards 2011 for her contribution to L.A. Weekly's Coachella coverage.
Her post Ten Fashion Combinations You Will Find this Year (and Every Year) at Coachella was named fourth most popular post of 2011 on L.A. Weekly's West Coast Sound blog.
You can find her Summer Love photography inside the Mermaid Oyster Bar, located in Greenwich Village in New York City.
Jena's Polaroid photography has been featured on {Frolic!}, Decor8, Modish and The New York Times Blog As well as: Apartment Therapy, LIPSTICKTRACEZ 1.Spring Break and 2. Retrospective, 10x15 magazine's 1.i love pools issue 2.I Heart Dos issue and Posi+tive magazine.
Jena was one of the 160 featured photographers in The Month of Photography Los Angeles (MOPLA) 2010.
Solo exhibitions INCLUDE:
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'Summer Love' A Solo exhibition at BreadBar in Los AngelesJune 4 - September 30, 2011.
Past GROUP exhibitions include:
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My Self the Artist, The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN
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Fotomaton: Selections - A Photo Booth Art Exhibition, Miami Shores, FL
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Polaroid: Easy Art? Doria Castle, Dolceacqua, Italy
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The 2010 MOPLA Group Show, Smashbox Studios, Culver City, Ca
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Can’t Pay The Rent show, L'Keg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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group show, Ghetto Gloss Gallery, Silverlake, CA
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Something Different, APW Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Jena's photography has been featured in Getty Images Top 8 and has been featured as JPG Magazine's online Photo of the Week.
You can purchase Jena's images for commercial usage by visiting her stock photography collections on Trigger Image and Getty Images. buyers includes Nokia, Kodak, MTV Networks, Microsoft, Blurb, AOL France and Glamour.com.
"When you close your eyes and think of California you probably envision something along the lines of fine art photographer Jena Ardell’s captures. Ardell’s work will take you back in time to a summer that never ends, a photographic time machine, if you will." ~Tristan of Thebrightsideproject.com
"If you've ever clicked your heels together and wished you resided in a more retro decade then you've come to the right place. Jena Ardell's retro fine art photography transports you back to a time that is reminiscent of a 70's dreamy Santa Monica beach day or a 60s Vegas wanderlust moment." ~Taryn of RetroRepublik.COM
"Ardell’s photographs are wonderfully contemplative and remind me of the simpler times of this country, which I often wish (as I am sure many other do)
we could go back to. The irony of Ardell’s ability to capture these “simpler times” in the current day gives me hope that the olden days
aren’t as far out of grasp as once thought." ~Brittni Wood of PaperNStitch.COM
Jena is available for freelance assignments. If interested, please email jena at jena.ardell@gmail.com for more information.