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LCC student featured in local teen exhibit
Bennett Mohler
Issue date: 9/24/08 Section: Arts
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Jaggers is in her fourth year at LCC as a general studies major, with a focus on photography."It's a lifelong passion. I've always been into photography," Jaggers said.
Jaggers moved to Eugene eight years ago and enrolled at LCC in 2005. Although attending for general studies, her personal focus has been on photography, taking classes ranging from fine arts to photojournalism. She attributes a lot of influence to LCC arts instructor Jennifer Salzman.
"She really helped me focus on my passion, which is fine art," Jaggers spoke of Salzman. "I tried to take her journalism class and she said, 'stick to fine arts.'"
Jaggers interest in photography started when she was young.
"Back in 2005, right before I started at Lane, is when I started to see photography as an art form," Jaggers explained. "When I needed my alone time after an argument with my family or something like that, I would just grab a camera and go outside and take pictures. It was kind of like a safe zone."
While trying out photography from a journalistic standpoint, she often resorts to the artistic side of photography. Before her display at the Mayor's Teen Art Show, Jaggers worked on industrial pieces. "Deconstructed" is how Jaggers described the style. She would take photographs of scaffolding, individual pieces and whatever tools she could find lying around construction sites.
For the Mayor's Teen Art Show, her focus was on flowers.
"I love simplicity," Jaggers said about. "That's why I like flowers. They're just one thing and you can make them look like anything. But anything that catches my eye will work." She carries her camera with her always. Even when Jaggers is driving she'll pull over if she sees something she likes.
The Mayor's Teen Art Show was the first exhibition of Jagger's art in an official gallery, although she has displayed her work in public before.
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