Jennifer Bishop has lived and photographed in Baltimore City since 1975. She published a weekly stand-alone photograph in Baltimore's City Paper for 17 years. These photos were described as "small, revelatory moments that define the strangeness of everyday life...and seek to chronicle the soul of Baltimore."* She also worked as a staff photographer for the Baltimore News American, and since 1981 has freelanced, shooting pictures for a variety of magazines, agencies, and institutions all over the world. The mother of two sons, she created Maryland's first Heart Gallery, a photo exhibit to promote adoption of children with special needs. She currently writes and photographs for projects that advocate for better lives for people with disabilities.
(*Glenn McNatt, The Baltimore Sun, Oct 2000)
February 6, 2012
Mount Royal bike lane statements
People involved in the Mount Royal Avenue bike lane issue have asked for the full text of the statements issued by Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Department of Transportation so here’s a link to a page where we’ve pasted up both. In addition, MICA has put Lazarus’ statement up on its website [...]
February 3, 2012
February 1, 2012
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Baltimore’s guerrilla crosswalk artists
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
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January 31, 2012
January 30, 2012
Dumping of hot metal caused Sparrows Point fire, state told
RG Steel told Maryland environmental officials today that the weekend fire that lit up the skies around Sparrows Point was caused by the disposal of hot metal from the mill’s blast furnace. “We were told that conditions relating to the idling and subsequent restart of the blast furnace led to the need to dispose of [...]
