Jackson Squared | Artist Statement
"My eye for the weird, the quirky and surreal has always made me a collector of discarded objects. The imperfect and asymmetric have always spoken to me with a special voice. This made me fall in love with and relocate to New Orleans. And it fired me up when working on Jackson Squared. Most of my work as a professional photographer involves making people, products and places look their very best. Sometimes, beyond their very best. Jackson Squared called for stepping out of that role. Most of my working photography involves a great deal of planning and anticipation what will happen. Bring a plan to Jackson Square and you risk missing treasures. Spend time patiently observing in Jackson Square and it never fails to offer surprises."
Will Crocker, October 2012
Jackson Squared | Resume
Jackson Hill Bio
Jackson Hill is New Orleans photographer who travels extensively on assignment and whose work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Rolling Stone ,Fortune, Forbes,Time and numerous books including his On Mobile Streets: a rumor of the city and Varisco’s Signs of New Orleans. He taught photography for 12 years at
NOCCA (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts). In addition to his still photography, Jackson now works as a cinematographer as well.
Will Crocker was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1951. He studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Kansas City Art Institute. He worked as an assistant for commercial photographer David Ludwigs in Kansas City, Missouri, before moving to New Orleans in 1977. Will works on assignments for architectural, advertising and editorial clients. Work has appeared in Bon Appetit Magazine, Cooking Light, MacWorld, PC Magazine, Parade Magazine, Delta Sky, and the Wall Street Journal. Stock photography is represented by Getty Getty Images . Many of Will's conceptually styled images can be seen at: http: //
www.gettyimages.com. Between working on assignments Will works on personal photography projects. Two of his prints are in the permanent
collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Tom Varisco Bio
Tom Varisco is sole proprietor and creative director of Tom Varisco Designs, a full service design / branding studio in New Orleans that has won several awards on the local, regional and national levels. Tom was
awarded the first "Fellow Award" by the New Orleans chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) for design leadership and excellence. He is the creator of Spoiled, a photo book about Hurricane Katrina refrigerator art. Tom's second self-published book, Signs of New Orleans, is a brief record of the city's "sign language." Jackson Squared is his third book — this one published by Chin Music Press in Seattle. Tom teaches graphic design to fourth year students at Loyola University.
