![]() As a tangent to her photographs of her neighbors, she began shooting in her own home, and Joel wa s a willing subject. In 2012 she married her second husband, Joel. She worked on various portrait projects: women of a certain age, cou p l es wh o’d been together for many years, and in 2011 began work on Building 1, a series about her neighbors in the apartment complex in Tribeca where she’d lived since 1984. Feeling rusty, she took a course at ICP just to re – connect with the camera controls and practice with editing software. She felt the need to photograph seriously again and purchased her first digital camera. In 2008, Susan’s husband passed away after a long illness. ĭuri ng her daughter’s growing up years, Susan photographed regularly, shooting chromes in those days because it was most convenient. A few years later, she started working as a photo researcher for a stock photo agency, and began a long career in stock photography, licensing images to various publishing and advertising clients. She loved that job but qui t when she became pregnant for fear of the chemicals. In 1978, Susan began working at a lab in Manhattan as a custom black and white printer. As a post grad, she enrolled in SVA as an undergrad (at the time, they did not offer an MFA program) and studied photography for two years. She h olds a BS in Education from Lesley College. Susan Rosenberg Jones was born and raised in Boston, and moved to New York City in 1976. We both know that life is short, and perhaps because of our new found love and c omfort, can journey through this life with a certain enthusiasm. In this series, Second Time Around, I delight in observing my new husband as he goes about living day to day. We’ve both seen a lot, done a lot, and have higher thresholds for idiosyncratic behavior than in our 20’s and 30’s. We both come with a lot of baggage, and at our ages, it’s no big deal, nothing to get excited about. For one thing, our bodies are not supple and streamlined the way the y were when we were young. We quickly fell into the routine and ease of being a stable married couple, except that we were newlyweds in our 60’s. Having been in a long – term marriage, I came to this new relationship with the tool s in place to be a good wife. To my surprise and delight, I found that I could deeply love this wonderful man who entere d my life, while holding dear the memories of my first husband. I hadn’t expected to fall in love, but I did. ![]() W e married in January of 2012 in a lovely ceremony at home. ![]() Soon after, I closed my account on JD ate. The second man I met online was Joel, and we felt a bond right away. ![]() In 2009 I decided to try online dating because I wanted to meet a man for an occasional movie or dinner date. Once widowed, I experienced the confusing and mixed feelings of grief: guilt, loneliness, regrets, indelible memories of loving glances, hugs, and laughs. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Susan Rosenberg Jones 2017 Annual Juried CompetitionĪfter having been married for 32 years my husband passed away in 2008, after a long illness. ![]()
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