Jill Enfield is a fine art photographer, educator, curator and. Her concentration is historical techniques and alternative processes, with annual workshops and lectures in locations around the world.
She has three books on historical techniques, the latest being: Jill Enfield’s Guide to Alternative Processes: Popular Historical and Contemporary Techniques.
Enfield was the keynote speaker at the Finnish Darkroom Association in March of 2022 and in November, 2020 became one of the advisors to the Lishui International Handmade Photography Center in China. She teaches at Parsons the New School of Design in NYC as well as many workshops.
Her series on immigration was first shown on Ellis Island in 2017 and has since traveled around the country. The work consisted of portraits as well as The Glasshouse of Immigrants comprising of portraits as well as images taken on Ellis Island.
Her new series is called “The Way Home” and consists of landscapes along the Hudson River. Enfield received the Arts Mid-Hudson Grant and a Parsons Faculty Grant to continue working on this series to make palladium prints with cyanotype on top.
Both series were originally photographed using the wet plate
