Jackie Neale

Bio

Jackie Neale is a NY|PHL portrait photographer, artist, professor, producer, and author with a focus on using historical, traditional, digital and experimental processes for multimedia documentary portrait projects.

Jackie's work consists of portrait and social activism documentaries chronicling Immigration in the U.S. and Europe in Crossing Over: Immigration Stories, a personal investigation of cultural assimilation project Bullet the Blue Sky, a pandemic reckoning of the human condition in I'm Sorry | I Love You | Thank You, a foreshadowing of the eradication of Women's Rights in the US, 45th presidency era and after, in A Woman's Right, and her work of over 800 photographs taken over 7 years of the NYC quotidian underground subway for a resulting monograph, ‘zines and multimedia exhibitions and lectures on, #SubwaySeries. Jackie’s pedigree consists of a long tenure as Senior Imaging and Photography Director of award-winning Online Feature Productions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Artist Project, 82nd and Fifth, MetCollects, One Met. Many Worlds, The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, and Connections, and now as undergraduate faculty of two prestigious colleges, New York Film Academy in NYC and Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

Additionally, Jackie has since opened Big Day Film Collective, a film and experimental photographic gallery in Greater Philadelphia. She presents her artworks and lectures for international audiences such as Paris College of Art’s Blurring the Lines Photography Conference, European Cultural Centre Academy Biennale 2019 in Venice, Italy, and Six Feet Photography. Jackie is a co-author of 30-Second Photography.

Jackie continues her alternative processes multimedia documentary on immigration and human rights in Fall 2022 where she will be partnering with NGOs in Malta on artist residency at Spazju Kreattiv.