Jasmine Swope is a photographer known for her distinctive approach to documenting natural landscapes. Her work combines the clarity of traditional photography with a profound environmental and ethereal focus, illuminating the delicate relationships between the human experience and the natural world. Often working in serene black-and-white, her images emphasize the beauty, strength, and quiet vulnerability of nature’s environments. Through imagery that engages the senses, she invites viewers to attune themselves to the subtleties of the natural world, to its quiet power and vulnerability. As Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight observed, her photographs possess “the soft look of richly worked, large-scale graphite drawings,” achieved through a process that “deftly evokes the presence of more than the eye can see.”
Her extensive career in professional photography and her wide-ranging cultural experiences continue to inform her vision and thematic focus. Swope’s work has been presented in both solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums, where her technical skill and contemplative sensibility have been widely recognized. Alongside solo and group exhibitions, her photographs are included in public and private collections, reflecting their lasting impact and recognition.
solo exhibition
2021
Our Ocean’s Edge
La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla, CA
2021
Our Ocean’s Edge
Laguna Art Museum. Laguna Beach, CA
2018
Our Ocean’s Edge
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2018
Our Ocean’s Edge
Seymour Marine Discovery Center, Santa Cruz, CA
2017
Our Ocean’s Edge
Channel Island Maritime Museum, Oxnard, CA
2017
Our Ocean’s Edge
Gateway Science Museum, Chico, CA
2016
Our Ocean's Edge
SPARC Gallery, South Pasadena Arts Council, South Pasadena, CA
2015
Our Ocean's Edge
Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2014
Our Ocean's Edge
El Paseo Gallery, Atascadero, CA
group exhibition
2014
Summer Selections Group Show
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2013
Jasmine Swope: The Tides of El Matador
The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA
2013
Grand Canyon: Travels Along the River
Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA
2012
Illusion & Chemistry: The Alternative Process
The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA
2011
Wonderland: Photographic Fantasies
The PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2011
The Sacred Moment
Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
2010
Floral
The PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2009
Palladium Prints
Venice Arts Gallery, Venice, CA
2009
Alternative Processes
The PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2008
Landscapes
The Palm Room, Ballard, Seattle, WA