ABOUT
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Liechty is a photographer living in State College, Pennsylvania. She is from Sheffield, England. In her early years, she earned a music degree from the University of Birmingham and a teaching certificate from the University of Cambridge. While in Cambridge, she met her husband; they moved to the United States, where she spent much time and energy raising a family. Now that the children are grown, she has more time for her camera.
Jane studied professional photography at Penn State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Design in December 2024. In 2021, she received the Leslie P. Greenhill scholarship—an award recognizing students with a serious involvement in and commitment to photography.
During 2022-23, Jane lived in Cambridge, England, where she completed two large-scale photography projects. The first project, Portrait of Cambridge, is about this city’s history and culture; the second, London-opoly, visits the properties on London’s Monopoly gameboard. Both projects will be published as books. Her current projects are twofold: to meander about quintessential small-town Pennsylvania and spend more time photographing the Statues of Westminster in London.
Jane has exhibited work at the Zoller and Keller galleries at Penn State University, Schlow Library in State College as part of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Juried Exhibition, and the Bellefonte Art Museum.
Her business, Jane Liechty Photography, is an LLC registered in Pennsylvania. The business is fully insured.
She is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers.
RESUME
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
As a photographer, I seek understanding. I watch the world around me, using photographs to look again and learn. I see shape and shadow, color and connection, light and life. I’m looking for who we are, how we interact, and how we imprint the land during our fleeting passage. Knowledge of history and culture adds context and brings me greater satisfaction.
Form is paramount. Above all, I seek Composition—an ideal alignment of the beautiful and true. Without this organization, life gives way to chaos. Beauty pushes aside the negative and neutral; for me, it is a direction, not an aesthetic. Truth, in turn, gives meaning to life; it’s the reason for life, and an ideal I reach for. I strive to overcome the disconnect (between reality and the ideal) that exists in all art. Creation is intuitive; I only know it when it happens.
For me, photographs simplify the world. I like their boundaries, how they abstract and package life, and how they model and approximate the world. The more photographs align with Beauty and Truth, the better they explain life. This is the purpose of my work and what I hope, in the end, to understand.