Botanicals

First trained as a dancer at PCPA and then as student studying film at Temple University, Jeanine Pohlhaus developed her passion for photography which became lifelong.

Her education became that of independent learning enriched by work she found at Aperture Foundation, the Florence Biennale, Sipa Press, Audubon Magazine and with the photographer Larry Fink as an assistant, archivist and student.

Pohlhaus is a documentary photographer who over the course of three decades has chronicled deeply personal subjects. Her father’s mental illness and later Alzheimer's disease and most recently her mother's struggle with dementia and the subject of being a caregiver. The pain is evident but the stories are told with humor and gentle humanity.

Returning to nature, her work with botanicals offers a respite. A meditation of color and texture altered by the nearness of her lens. The peace it represents has become an inspiration and also a sanctuary.

Her work has been exhibited at the University of Rhode Island,  Lafayette College, Williams Center for the Arts, the Center for Documentary Studies in Santa Fe and the Susquehanna Art Museum. In addition her work depicting family and mental illness has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and on PBS television. She is the recipient of the 2026 Dear Dave magazine fellowship award.

View Jeanine's work on her website.