Jeffrey Stockbridge

Jeffrey Stockbridge graduated from Drexel University with a BS in Photography in 2005. His work has been included in exhibitions at The National Portrait Gallery London, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, The Wapping Project Bankside and The Print Center. In 2010, Stockbridge was nominated for the Taylor-Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and he was recently shortlisted for both the Lange-Taylor Prize and the Center For Documentary Studies First Book Prize. Stockbridge is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a CFEVA Fellowship. His work has been featured in publications such as The Rust Belt Rising Almanac, The Telegraph UK, The Daily Mail, Time Magazine, Vignette Magazine, Feature Shoot and SiouxWIRE. Stockbridge shoots film with a 4x5 camera and produces large-format inkjet prints at his studio in Philadelphia. For the last 5 years, Stockbridge has been working on a series titled Kensington Blues. Photographing along Kensington Avenue in North Philadelphia, Stockbridge turns his camera on the residents of a neighborhood overcome by drug addiction, prostitution and violent crime. With an audio recorder and journal in hand, Stockbridge encourages his subjects to tell their own stories. His photographs and audio recordings are then paired together on his blog kensingtonblues.com.