selections from

A Private Gaze

I am just another animal
And this is what I know how to do.
I know how to divine our stories
with a camera.

Photography is like
Stopping the sands in the glass
allowing us to gaze
at that moment.

J.U.

“otherworldly beautiful”

Corey Mesler
Poet, 2010

The current body of work by Memphian Jeane Umbreit, A Private Gaze, furthers her explorations of the earth and the way humans inhabit it in both a respectful and harmful manner. Umbreit layers and manipulates her photographs with unexpected combinations highlighting places, animals, people and ideas that are ecologically meaningful and pure. These photographs are of a world both modern and ancient, domestic and wild. Within this world of fantasy blended with reality the images give the viewer a private place to read their own stories.

Hamlett Dobbins
Press release, 2010