by Jackie Alpers | Dec 18, 2015
Nothing says, “It’s party time” like beverages with fancy looking decorated rims! Dip, dunk and swirl your way to a festive holiday celebration with my 10 ideas for decking out your glassware for the holidays. The melting hard candy drink rim pictured uses the...
by Jackie Alpers | May 8, 2013
I’m super excited to announce that my book Sprinkles!: Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts is available for pre-order on Amazon.com! It’s a fun and kind of weirdly wonderful, whimsical book, and I believe it’s the...
by Jackie Alpers | Sep 3, 2011
There are some crazy – big burgers in this town and I was elected to photograph them. I was more than a little surprised by what I found. The magazine printed this amazing Mac & Cheeseburger as a vertical spread in the centerfold. I turned it for...
by Jackie Alpers | Nov 18, 2010
The 2010 holiday ad campaign that I shot for La Encantada, an upscale open air mall in Arizona, illustrates the story of a dapper man-about-town as he picks up last minute holiday gifts for his family… and himself. Our hero, dressed in a Brooks Brother’s...
by Jackie Alpers | Jun 16, 2010
I was nominated for a Photography Master’s Cup award in the Food Photography category. The Photography Master Cup is, “a global online awards show recognizing excellence in color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the finest...
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 | Dec 18, 2009
The folks at AARP Bulletin sent to me Sun City, the nations biggest and oldest retirement community. They wanted to show how the nature of volunteerism had progressed in a community dependent on the act. Women in Sun City have gone from organizing bake sales to...
by Jackie Alpers | Dec 7, 2009
I’ve been photographing portraits of southern Arizona artists for Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine for many years now. Here are a few of of my favorites:
by Jackie Alpers | Nov 30, 2009
Here are a couple of portraits I shot of navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui for Poets & Writers Magazine. You can read the article in the November/December issue:
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 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 11, 2008
“The Magician”, an image from my self portrait project was selected for the Center For Fine Art Photography’s 2009 Idea of Self Exhibition. The Juror, Susan A. Zadeh is the editor-in-chief and artistic director of EYEMAZING, an international magazine on contemporary...
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 | Jul 30, 2008
I was paired with a travel writer from AAA Traveler Magazine on her first trip to Arizona. We spent a whirlwind weekend visiting all of the tourist hot spots for her feature article. Here are some of my images that appeared in the magazine.
by Jackie Alpers | Jan 14, 2008
I have 6 images on display at the Rooke Gallery as part of the 6°—6 Exhibition. Curators include members of the Society of Photographers, Rodger Balen, Stephen Shore, Darius Himes, Jason Fulford. The 6°—6 exhibition was designed to allow an encompassing story to be...
by Jackie Alpers | Apr 28, 2007
The Volitant Gallery in Austin, Texas is including two of my images in their group exhibit about weddings and the ritual of marriage. “Tunnel Vision: Parading Down the Aisle is a collection of photography that confronts the viewer with images that are not your obvious...
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 | Oct 21, 2006
My husband Jason collects monster masks. Eventually I had to declare that I only had one rule in our marriage, “NO monsters in the bedroom.” The monsters are almost everywhere else though, so when he came to me one day asking that I photograph all of the...
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...
by Jackie Alpers | Jun 1, 2005
Images from my series Conventions are featured at File Magazine