Jeri Love

Jeri Love is an award-winning photographer, writer, and a certified Photovoice facilitator through Photovoice Worldwide. Photovoice is a group project that utilizes the universal language of photography to explore, share and document ideas and concerns as a catalyst for dialogue and change.

She facilitated the Edison Resident Scholars’ first Photovoice project in 2023 and curated the exhibition, which had its debut at the Kalamazoo Literacy Council’s annual Literacy Symposium at Western Michigan University, and was part of the Edison Neighborhood Association’s April 2024 Washington Square Art Crawl.She also led the Photovoice in Still Life workshop for Osher Life-Long Learning Institute’s Winter 2024 session.

Since 2013, Jeri’s photographic work has been in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She formerly worked in Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago as a journalist and broadcast news executive, followed by a career as a corporate communications executive and ghostwriter for business and arts leaders, and holistic health professionals. Jeri has a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction writing. She has studied with master photographers throughout the United States and has been a teaching artist for more than 20 years.

Jeri is a resident of Kalamazoo, where she is involved in community arts projects through her company, Red Bag Arts, and environmental justice work through her tree-planting project, Plant A Tree: Grow a Leader.