Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg is a world renowned photographer who specializes in portraiture. She was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1967, but moved to the United States (Michigan, to be exact) while she was still a toddler, where she began her endeavors in the visual arts. She became interested in the artistic medium of photography around 10, already developing black and white film while in grade 5. Before her senior year of High School she attended the Rhode Island School of Design for their pre-college program in 1984, and during her senior year in High School, she received a scholarship for her to attend Parsons School of Art & Design to study photography further. She continued to take extra curricular courses at many different places such as the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Association, Kingswood. She is known today for her stylistic lighting, and several portrait series' which anthropomorphize animals such as monkeys, bears, horses and others as well. She has worked for many large corporations/companies including Sony Pictures, HBO, NBC Universal, FOX, Paramount Pictures, etc, and has photographed many portraits of well known actors, musicians, and politicians throughout her career, such as Clint Eastwood, John McCain, and Gwen Stefani. Several of her shoots have also been highly questionable (concerning the ethics of the shoots); one of which was a series of babies crying in which Jill and her team would give the babies candy, take the candy back, wait for them to cry, and then shoot the photos. While some of it is controversial, there is no denying that her work is brilliant, and it is for this reason that she continues to receive work to this day despite several questionable shoots.