Artist Bio

Jacob Chatfield is originally from Huntsville, Alabama, in the United States. When he was eight years old, he moved to Kuwait and experienced culture shock in the Middle East. By the age of nine, Jacob moved back to the United States, where he lived for five more years before his family moved again to the United Kingdom. It was during this time that he discovered Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark, a complete photo of every animal known to man, and its purpose is to preserve the memory and fight against the extinction of these animals. Inspired by this, Jacob picked up a camera and began shooting dandelions in the backyard, slowly branching out from flowers to animals, then to architecture. It was around this time that Jacob put forward his first piece to be exhibited in his town’s local newspaper; it was later shown in Beautiful Photography, published by Silent Spark Press. In 2020, Jacob moved back to the United States and enrolled in the University of Alabama at Huntsville as a BFA candidate in photography and sculpture. During Jacob’s spring semester of 2021, he won his first major award, the Nick Lavenant Peasant Shoppe Photography award. Jacob’s work draws inspiration from isolation, finding comfort in the quiet, and also political and social issues. He currently works with digital and film photography. He has also expanded his artistic endeavors to include sculpture, as he believes the physical space that sculpture takes up can leave a more effective and longstanding mark on humanity and the art world as a whole.