Hello
I trained in studio lighting and retouching in Brooklyn and have spent a decade turning that practice on myself — in fields, on floors, in water. I shoot on digital and film, including a twins lens reflex that slowed me down in the best way. It made me stop making images for someone and start making them for myself.
Self-portraiture, for me, is the only way I've found to look at a thing long enough to understand it. The body is the first and last place these questions live: grief, transformation, the gap between who you perform and who you are when no one is watching.
Witness is what ten years of that looking produced. It is not a recovery narrative. It is a record of staying.
Available for portraiture, editorial, exhibition, workshops, and publication.
For inquiries, reach out directly.
Images are 100% human made.
All images © Jonathan Chapé. All rights reserved.
Selected Work:
2016–26
Witness — Self Portraits
Four chapters: Flesh, Weight, Threshold, Form
Digital and medium format film · Mamiya c330, Canon EOS 5DS R
Exhibitions
2018
WideOpen: Excellence in Photography
The Dairy Barn Arts Center · Athens, Ohio
National juried exhibition · Inaugural edition
2018
BARE Brooklyn
I.M.A.G.E Gallery · Brooklyn, New York
Organized by Eternal Remedy · May 10, 2018
Publications
2018
récolte / harvest
Eternal Remedy
Art Display · Pages 24–33 · Featured artist