PHOTOGRAPHER: JACQUELINE C. AGENTIS (JCA)

Jacqueline Agentis graduated from Kutztown University with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art, concentration Photography. She has been photographing in the Lehigh Valley and nationally for over 28 years. During her tenure as a Photographer with AT&T Bell Laboratories, she had the opportunity to gain tremendous experience; from shooting silicon wafers via the microscope, through product, location, and executive portraits using 35mm/medium/large format film cameras. Although she has migrated to digital equipment, film still holds a warm place in her heart.

After leaving AT&T, she has maintained a freelance and fine art career during the last 10 years; exhibiting in a number of solo and group shows, including the Payne Gallery and Technicolor Grand. The Purchase Prize winner in the Bethlehem Fine Arts Juried Exhibition in 2006, the First Place winner in the Industrial Photography Magazine's national annual competition in 1997 and many other winning results in between, her work has appeared in various national and international publications including NY Times, Industrial Photography, Optics and Photonics, as well as others.

For the last few years she has donated a lot of her professional time and expertise to various charity organizations, which inlclude the St Baldrick's Foundation (www.stbaldricks.org) and DSACK (Down Syndrome Association of CCentral Kentucky, www.dsack.org)

Finding the extraordinary from the ordinary is a photographic aspiration. Whether its capturing the beauty of color, texture, and architectural features in the reminisce of a factory; or the relationship of people with their environment and each other in portrait or street photography, the extraordinary is there to be found.

"Bethlehem Steel supported my immigrant grandparents and was an integral part of my family history. Exploring the beauty in this historic relic was inspirational."