Bethany Jacobson began her career as a photographer and video artist. Her video work has been exhibited at P.S.1, ICA (London), and Infermental (Japan). Her photographs have been published in Cover, Tatler, Harpers/Queen, and House & Garden, and her subjects have included such seminal figures as Richard Branson, Iggy Pop, Wim Wenders, David Wojnarowicz, and Chantal Akerman.

 

Her three-channel synchronized video installation, “Raw Zones”, was exhibited at P.S.1 in Long Island City between May ’87-July ’87. The single channel version was shown at The American Museum of Moving Image, NY, and Infermental, Japan. After completing NYU’s graduate film program in the 1990s, she moved into working on indie features, documentaries, and television series, which have aired on PBS, MTV, BBC and WDR. Her short film, Hotel Bleu (2016), won numerous awards and is available on Amazon.

 

She resumed her photography practice in the past ten years and has been in numerous curated exhibits, receiving recognition in the Julia Cameron Competition at the third FotoBienale in Barcelona. Her first solo exhibit of photographic work was at EV Gallery, NYC, in July 2023. The photography book, "Ode To A Cemetery," published by Hirmer Verlag in November 2024, received positive reviews. Her recent photographic works on handmade paper were exhibited in a two-person show, "Legendary Brooklyn: Two Perspectives" at Gallery Onetwentyeight, NYC, Sept 20 - Oct. 4, 2024.