by Jackie Alpers | Feb 2, 2018
I came up with something rainbow sparkly to inspire kids to want to cook. In this homemade rainbow lollipop project I encourage kids to be creative and to made their own color and flavor choices. They also get to smash candy with hammers, which is a lot of fun. The...
by Jackie Alpers | Mar 16, 2011
Thank you Inside Tucson Business for nominating me as a 2011 Up and Comer. and congratulations to all of the other nominees. “Up & Comers is a recognition program designed to highlight the achievements of people in the Tucson region in their 20s, 30s and...
by Jackie Alpers | Dec 26, 2009
I know that this is a touchy subject for some at this time of the year, but I do have a new Calorie Counter Cookbook out. Chantal Martineau wrote the recipes and I did the cooking, food styling and photography. It’s available at Amazon.com; just in time for your...
by Jackie Alpers | Oct 22, 2009
After reading an article about this book by Dan Aykroyd’s father in the Huffington post I went to put in in my cart at Amazon and saw that one of my photos was on the cover! Amazing! I couldn’t ask to be on a better cover. I’m really interested in...
by Jackie Alpers | Sep 16, 2009
I won two honorable mentions at the IPA awards (Lucie’s). I checked out the website and was floored by the quality of the other honorable mentions. And, it turns out that there were like 24,000 entries overall so I guess I did pretty well. They are all listed...
by Jackie Alpers | Aug 18, 2009
I have been selected by the editors of PDN as one of their Top 10 Portfolios of the Month on PhotoServe.com. What a pleasant surprise!
by Jackie Alpers | May 8, 2009
I’ve got a photo published in the Russian version of Cosmopolitan. It seems to be a story about not wanting to be tempted by delicious cake while on a diet. Here is the photo they published. You can read (or just look at) the article here:...
by Jackie Alpers | May 5, 2009
A while back Diane Kashy and the folks at Madden sent me out into the night to find and photograph plants that only bloom by the light of the moon. I wandered my neighborhood and the grounds at Hacienda del Sol which is an old boarding school turned into an inn. Here...
by Jackie Alpers | Apr 25, 2009
Here are a couple of images from the new mexican cookbook that I am working on. You can see more of my food photography here: www.JackieAlpers.com
by Jackie Alpers | Apr 19, 2009
Last summer I spent a day working on the TV series Eco Trip with David De Rothschild. The New York Times is running an article about the show and is featuring one of my photos. After the Silver Spoon, a Green Life
by Jackie Alpers | Mar 27, 2009
My newest book cover photograph is for Vanilla Ride by Joe Lansdale. The super amazing Chip Kidd at Knopf designed the layout.
by Jackie Alpers | Feb 2, 2009
The myth that you can’t find excellent seafood in the desert has been debunked in the winter issue of the Tucson Guide. Photos by me!
by Jackie Alpers | Dec 21, 2008
Two images from my series Social Obligations were chosen for American Photography 24. The images are from different social events that I had to attend for one reason or another. I’m fascinated by gender roles and power plays.
by Jackie Alpers | Oct 27, 2008
I’m honored to have been nominated in the professional-sports category of the 2008 B/W Spider Awards for my photograph of female wrestlers.
by Jackie Alpers | Oct 21, 2008
Supergirls Speak Out: the Secret Dilemma of Overachieving Girls about the pressure on young women to be perfect, will be published by Simon and Schuster’s Touchstone/Fireside imprint in January of 2009 and my image is on the cover. Stylist extradonaire Melanie Hebron...
by Jackie Alpers | Oct 8, 2008
I have three portraits featured in the October issue of Tucson Lifestyle Magazine
by Jackie Alpers | Sep 23, 2008
I have been awarded two honorable mentions in the 2008 International Photography Awards Competition: In the Fine Art professional category for my food series, “Things I Ate” and for my “Self Portrait with Harvest Feast”. My images were chosen from over 22,000...
by Jackie Alpers | May 10, 2007
If you are traveling through the Denver Airport please stop and see my work in the Main Gallery. It’s included in the Center For Fine Art Photography’s DIA International Exhibition through July
by Jackie Alpers | Jan 4, 2007
My images are on the cover of a new book published by Random House, Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own, by Marge Piercy The cover was designed by one of the very best book designers ever – Archie Ferguson. The book will be released in...
by Jackie Alpers | Dec 15, 2006
If you are in Phoenix or Tucson look for my photos in the January/February issues of both Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine and The Valley Guide. PH&G features a story on 93 year old artist Rose Cabat who won international recognition (her work is in MOMA) for...
by Jackie Alpers | Aug 22, 2006
Over the summer I was lucky enough to work as the still photographer on three episodes of the show Ghost Hunters for the Sci-Fi Channel. Basically I tromped around in the dark looking for ghosts with the show’s amazing cast and crew. It was a TON of fun! You can see...