Jamey Stillings' multi-decade career spans documentary, fine art, and commissioned work. Since 2010, he has focused on renewable energy through an extended aerial photography project, Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy & the Shifting Human Landscape. Stillings has photographed extensively over the United States, Japan, Uruguay, and Chile from helicopters and light airplanes. New US-based and international chapters of Changing Perspectives are under development.
Atacama: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile, Stillings’ newest monograph was published by Steidl in 2023.
Stillings presents globally at photo festivals, universities, TED events, and professional conferences. His work is exhibited and published widely in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. Recent publications include The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, Newsweek Japan, WIRED Italia, and Photoworld China. His award-winning book, The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar (Steidl, 2015), documents the Ivanpah Solar concentrated solar power plant in California’s Mojave Desert. Stillings' photographs are in private and public collections, including the United States Library of Congress; Museum of Fine Arts - Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Nevada Museum of Art.