About

Jamie Beck picked up her first camera at thirteen, and she has seen the world through a lens ever since. “I see and speak the language of life through the lens of a camera.”

After studying fashion photography at the Fashion Institute in NYC, she opened her own studio in lower Manhattan by twenty-eight. Over nearly three decades behind the camera, she has photographed for Chanel, Cartier, Oscar de la Renta, Nike, Disney and Netflix, and her work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Time and WWD. Adweek twice named her one of its Top 100 Creatives.

In 2011, she and Kevin Burg created the cinemagraph, a still photograph with one small moment of living motion. The first was a portrait of model Coco Rocha for New York Fashion Week. They described the effect as giving life to a marble statue, and the name they coined stuck.

In 2016, a frightening stretch of turbulence on a flight left her certain of one thing: she couldn’t go on without having lived in France. A month later, she left Manhattan for what was meant to be a one-year sabbatical. Then she fell in love with the Luberon, its light and its slower days, and with the freedom to make work only for herself. “Over here, I am free to create.” Ten years later, she’s still there.

In Provence, her commercial work became art. Flowers from the garden, fruit from the market, old villages and soft light all became her subjects. Ordinary things, looked at closely, became something lasting. That way of seeing led to two New York Times bestsellers, An American in Provence and The Flowers of Provence, and later to Jamie Beck Co., which brings her images into homes as fine art, paper goods and keepsakes.

She founded The Starling Club to share all of it. More than 1,400 members now gather there to feel inspired, learn freely and travel together. They love art, flowers, France and the beauty of everyday life.

Home is near Apt, in the Luberon, with her husband, Kevin, and their daughter, Eloise. Her mornings start with a fresh fruit, a little baguette and time in her studio. She works only in natural light, and her still lifes nod to the painters she loves, from Monet and Cézanne to Mary Cassatt.

The Artist

Jamie's work begins with the art of noticing. A basket of garden roses, figs from the Saturday market or a shaft of afternoon light across an old stone wall can each become the start of a photograph. She works with what each season offers, building still lifes from flowers, fruit and the small rituals of French life.

The subject is only the beginning. What makes a photograph distinctly Jamie's is how she handles light, color, composition and texture. She invites us to look closely at the things we usually pass by.

Of everything she makes, fine art matters most to her. Her limited-edition prints are made to be lived with and passed down. Each one holds a moment of beauty that would otherwise have faded with the season.

And she has a dream: to one day see her work hang on a museum wall. She wants it to sit among the artists who taught her how to see, and to show that the beauty of an ordinary day deserves a place there too.

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“Jamie Beck is the Peter Mayle of our time. Her alluring and sensual portraits bring us one step closer to understanding the ineffable magic of the South of France.”

— Frédéric Fekkai