Jane Liechty Photography

Projects

Long-form is where I live as a photographer: not a few quick frames, but deep, patient bodies of work built over time. Underneath them all is the same question: what matters to me?

Weathered blue door, Cambridge

My Cambridge

A study of what it means to know a place

Reflections on a London ceiling

Londonopoly

A trip around the London Monopoly game board

Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner

Statues of Westminster

What we choose to remember, and why

Blue angel statue behind iron railings, Pennsylvania

Small-town Pennsylvania

The character of a place

Four studio portraits from Chairs: a man cross-legged on a wheelchair cushion, a man balancing behind an office chair, a boy upside down in an armchair, and a teenager leaping over a stool

Chairs

A light-hearted study about people’s relationships with chairs

Young man in red light with a spinning tambourineWoman laughing, eyes closed, against a dark backdropYoung musician holding a mandolin, looking away

After the Masters

Portraits that begin with a famous painting

Essays

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ledger stone, Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge

On a Cambridge cemetery

Of What We Cannot Speak

November 9, 2026 · 8 min read

In a hidden Cambridge cemetery, you meet the dead the way you’d meet neighbors: first by proximity, then by story.

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The west tower of St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge

On a Cambridge church

Saint Edward, King and Martyr

November 6, 2026 · 7 min read

Through the viewfinder, the tower is already a fragment. I decide what goes in the frame and what stays out.

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Two children with dripping ice-cream cones on a seaside promenade, by Martin Parr

On Martin Parr

A Different Planet

August 27, 2026 · 6 min read

Most photographers—and most mothers, too—would have wiped the children’s faces and arranged their pose before taking this shot. Not Parr. He wanted the drips.

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