Biography
Jane Fulton Alt was born in Chicago in 1951 and began exploring the visual arts while pursuing a career as a clinical social worker. She is the author of Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward (2009) and The Burn (2013). Her portfolio “Crude Awakening” appeared in publications worldwide. Alt’s work is held in thirty-one permanent and private collections worldwide. She is a three-time winner of Photolucida’s Critical Mass for her Katrina and Burn portfolios. Alt resides in Evanston, Illinois and her beloved adopted city, New Orleans.
