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A number of years ago, someone told me I needed to know Jane Fulton Alt. Jane has that rare ability to consider many subjects and ways of working with finesse and insight, exploring universal issues of humanity and the non — material. She also manages to balance her art making with family, a career as a social worker, numerous charities, and time in her beloved adopted city of New Orleans.

Jane will be giving an artist lecture on October 10th at pm. Jane was born in Chicago has been active in the arts much of her lifetime, as an image maker and mentor. In addition to being a photographer, Jane is a clinical social worker who has been in practice for over 40 years. She resides in Evanston, Illinois with her husband. Burn can be purchased here.

These photographs are part of a series begun in when I observed my first controlled prairie burn. A controlled burn is deliberately set; its violent, destructive force reduces invasive vegetation so that native plants can continue to prosper.

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The elements of the burn—the mysterious luminosity, the smoke that both obscures and reveals—suggest a liminal space, a zone of ambiguity where destruction merges with renewal. These images of regenerative destruction have a personal significance—I photographed my first burn at the same time my sister began a course of chemotherapy—yet they constitute a universal metaphor: the moment when life and death are not contradictory but are perceived as a single process to be embraced as a whole.

That was the beginning. I had no idea how to approach organizing and presenting the work in a book. The learning curve was steep, and I had lots of help. The end product reflects the input of many talented and generous people. Understanding the human condition, our universal need for connection and the inevitability of separation, has been the primary focus of my photographic life.