Kathy Howard Jacobson is a New York based photographer. Her work is largely comprised of street photography, photojournalism, portraiture, and most recently, abstracts, or what she refers to as “The beauty in details unseen”.

Kathy has been photographing since the mid 1970’s. Earning an undergraduate degree and an MFA in Photography, she went on to work professionally as a multi-image/ special effects photographer and pursue her fine art photography as well. 

Kathy’s projects of note include her photographic essays on Homelessness, New York City’s Garment Center and Chinatown, a collection of portraits made with Polapan film, and her collection of “Urban Paintings”.  

Kathy’s images of urban walls serve as artistic records of social, political and cultural issues she has documented over decades. 

In her most recent work , Kathy turns inward, exploring deeply personal themes. She captures an intimate vantage point from a French country bedroom, transforms distorted reflections into seascape watercolors, and finds beauty and abstraction in unremarkable, everyday environments. 

“I have been photographing for fifty years. As a photographer, I have gained access to people and places that I would not have had the opportunity to explore otherwise. When I am immersed in photographing, it is where I am meant to be.“