Jesús Armand

My name's Jesús and I'm a fine-art and commercial artist who splits my time between Brooklyn and Concord, MA. I studied photography as an unofficial minor at Yale, when I was getting my BA in Political Science. After college, I spent 5.5 years working as a professional contemporary ballet dancer in New York, before transitioning to photography and multi-media art full-time.

I strive to create work that is as much about the subject as it is about the medium, always trying to highlight both the strengths and the limitations of the medium I'm working in. Mostly, I work in photography, but increasingly in video, painting and multi-media disciplines.

Currently, I'm working primarily as a commercial and editorial photographer of athletes and children. My fine art projects include Esprit de Corps--the ballet photographs you see here, several long term self-portrait projects for which I've been growing my hair for 5 years, a photographic novel about the dangers of nostalgia and a satirical pop-photography website about racial assumptions and stereotypes.

Yale University, B.A. 2004: Political Science