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Jeffrey Engel

I'm almost a founding member of the Boston Photography Center and joined the Worcester Photography Center very shortly after I joined the BPC in 2005.

I've been taking pictures for fun since I was about 13 but didn't take it seriously until I went to art school. There I studied black and white and darkroom. Then I went into my career and forgot about it for a while until I was laid off at IBM in 2001. I immediately went and bought a 2MP digital camera because I'd heard so much about them and pretty much spent the next 4 years carrying it around with me on various adventures in North America and Europe. By 2005 I was shooting constantly and I started expanding my interests, shooting digital infrared. I joined the BPC and WPC and this completely opened me up to new possibilities. Within 2 years I was shooting commercially and had some work published.

I still consider myself an artist first and foremost, and the camera is my chosen medium at the moment. The question for me these days is: what kind of camera and what kind of medium? I enjoy film as much as digital and I especially enjoy all the different kinds of Polaroid film (I have a huge stock of it), especially Type 55.

I've managed to get paid for my work (so I guess that makes me pro?) although I do not make a living at it. Since mid 2007 I have found fashion photography to be particularly rewarding due to the client's high expectation of creativity.

I am currently working on a personal series of photos using 4x5 large format cameras and rare Infrared film. You can see some of these here.