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