Born and raised in California, Jean Ross is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer. Through photography, Jean explores the interplay between people and place, using her camera to explore how people live, work, and play. She is drawn to the rituals that preserve and build community and the activities of daily life. A dedicated traveler, Jean finds herself returning to places where people and cultures mix.
She has studied at the International Center of Photography and her work has been featured in solo shows at Viewpoint Gallery in Sacramento, California and Gallery 1855 in Davis, California and in group shows at the International Center of Photography; Photoville, Brooklyn, New York; Women Street Photographers at Artspace PS 109, New York City; Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico; Trieste Photo Days, Trieste, Italy; Art on the Ave, New York City; Los Angeles Center of Photography; Noyes Arts Garage at Stockton University, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Brooklyn, New York; Nancy Willard and Eric Lindbloom Artist-Run Project Space, Poughkeepsie, New York; Showfields, New York City; Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and other galleries. Her work has also been published in the Social Documentary Network’s Zeke magazine and a number of online publications.
Jean spent her career as a public policy researcher and advocate, looking to reduce inequality and promote economic and human rights in the U.S. and abroad.
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Exhibitions and Publications
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Mermaids and Polar Bears, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA
2013 Everyday India, Gallery 1855, Davis, CA
2012 Bahia, Gallery 1855, Davis, CA
2010 Woman. Wandering. Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, (2010), Sacramento, CA
2008 El Día de los Muertos en Oaxaca, Rail Bridge Cellars, Sacramento, CA
Books
The Pictorial List: Volume One - New York City (2024)
71% - The State of Water, Honorable Mention (2023)
#ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, International Center of Photography (2021)
Publications
2026 Black and White Portraits Exhibition, Lenscratch (2026)
I Love L.A., Lenscratch (2024)
Cubaseen (2024)
F-Stop Street Photography (2023)
Zeke Magazine, Displaced (Spring 2023), Zeke Award Honorable Mention
Zeke Magazine, This is What Democracy Looks Like (Fall 2022)
The Pictorial List, Raising the Bar(July 2022)
Lenscratch, The 2021 Politics of the Kitchen Exhibition (April 2021)
Social Documentary Network, Spotlight, Early Voting (November 5, 2020)
MPB Blog, Early Voting (November 2, 2020)
Lenscratch, Vote (November 1, 2020)
Zeke Magazine, Black Lives Matter (Fall 2020)
International Budget Project, 2016 Annual Report
International Center of Photography School, Winter 2017 Catalog
International Center of Photography School, 2016 Part-Time Program Guide
Group Exhibitions
2026 Place and Purpose: Urban Life, Gallery Space at Wagner, New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York, NY
2025 Travel, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2024 The Art of Coney Island, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Women Street Photographers, El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, New York, NY
2023 71% - The State of Water, Honorable Mention, Trieste Photo Days, Trieste, Italy
2023 Dia De Los Muertos, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2023 The Found Object, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2023 2023 Zeke Award Winners, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Women Street Photographers, El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, New York, NY
2023 Empty Places: Abandoned Spaces, Honorable Mention, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021 The Art of Coney Island, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2021 In Good Company, Nancy Willard and Eric Lindbloom Artist-Run Project Space, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 The Most Interesting Healing Art, Showfields, New York, NY
2020 #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2020 The Connected World: 2020 – Virtual Gallery, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Art on the Ave: The Art of Healing, New York, NY
2020 Awareness through Conceptual Art and Photography, X Gallery (online)
2020 Showfields Live Curation (virtual)
2020 Raw 2020, Noyes Arts Garage, Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ
2014 Bluebird Food and Spirits, F-Stop Photo Collective Group Exhibit, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 Blueline Gallery, Roseville, CA
2008 Sacramento Hall of Administration, Sacramento, CA
Awards
Trieste Photo Days, Honorable Mention, 71% - The State of Water (2023)
ZEKE Award for Systemic Change, Honorable Mention, Displaced (2022)
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 1st Prize, “Cell Phone Only” (2011), Sacramento, CA
KVIE Art Auction, 2nd Prize in Photography (2009), Sacramento, CA
Education
Jean completed the Continuing Education Track certificate program at the International Center of Photography and has taken workshops with John Stanmeyer, Maggie Steber, and Ernesto Bazan among others.