Jill McGeorge

Biography
Jill McGeorge has been photographing for fourteen years. She studied photography for a semester at New York University, TISCH School of the Arts before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia. She completed a degree in Criminology and embarked on a career in social research. After seven years she moved to Dublin, Ireland where she worked in public health education for two years. Eager to change direction, she moved to Ohio, USA where her family lived. Deciding to use her talent in photography and indulge that passion, she enrolled in a few photography classes at the local university to further hone her skills. Jill currently works for an event photography company while more actively shooting her fine art and documentary photography, seeking exhibitions and maintaining displays of her work on her website: jmindzeye.com.

Statement
This collection of photographs contains pieces from over ten years ago during my student days at New York University to those taken mere months ago. Of course, photographs, like other art mediums, are timeless. Street Passages is my homage to the diverse people one comes across during daily explorations on the street. Be it strolling through Rome, Italy, taking an afternoon walk around Seattle, USA or trudging up and down the steep hills of San Francisco, it is these people of simple, flawed beauty that catch one's eye. Or maybe just my eyes.

I called the collection 'Street Passages' for a couple reasons. The one thing all these photographs have in common is that they were all photographed outside, or 'on the street'. With the exception of a few, they were shot unbeknownst to the subject, fleeting glimpses of them captured for all time.

Taken together, they are also scenes of different ages of man, the passage of time. There is our childhood, when our hearts and minds were filled with eager wonder. Then we grow into our often confusing adulthood where we experience the extremes of emotion: love, fear, pain, doubt, joy and it's all about where we are going and who is there beside us. Then, finally, we slow down and take longer looks about and hopefully rejoice in what has been, and will continue to be, a rich and fulfilling life.