Jamie Baldridge

This past weekend I was part of the Fresh Fairs art festival in Santa Monica and was introduced to whom I shall introduce you to this week. His name is Jamie Baldridge. Jamie was born to two hominids in 1975 in a very small town in the Deep South of the United States.  Much of his childhood was spent in tedium.  After spending years studying Theology and Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, Jamie somehow got a BFA in Photography.  After which he went on to work a string of odd, very odd, photographic jobs before receiving his MFA in Photography from the same fine institution.  He is currently a professor of photography at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.  His work and writings can be found in many collections such as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Rare Books collections of the Library of Congress, Cornell University, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The University of Colorado at Boulder, the Rhode Island Institute of Technology, McNeese University’s Abercrombie Collection, as well as numerous private collections.  The Everywhere Chronicles, his first book, has just been released by 21st Editions. Baldridge currently resides in Lafayette, LA where he divides his time between making art, teaching, traveling, and writing.

I find this work very amusing and entertaining as it shows like a scene out of a high budget, artsy European child's movie. Enjoy!