Jack and Sue Warford

Jack and Sue Warford are a husband-and-wife team celebrating their golden wedding anniversary this year, having spent most of their fifty years together working  in photography. Upon Jack’s release from active duty as a Naval Aviator in Hawaii, where Sue graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Hawaii, they went to Hollywood to be actors and found very limited success. (Jack can be seen in the Roger Corman cult classic, Little Shop of Horrors, where he was billed over Jack Nicholson.) Jack began a photographic career doing casting photos of actors and actresses, graduating into being staff photographer for a fashion magazine then doing family portraiture, Sue working by his side, for the next thirty years. For twenty of those years, they were represented by the prestigious I. Magnin stores in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas. When not photographing some of the most prominent families in California, they roamed the World, cameras in hand (or on tripod) searching for opportunities to create fine photographs.  Jack also took on the occasional commercial job.  One such was photographing the model space ships for the original Star Wars.  That was Jack’s picture of the X-wing Fighter that you probably wore on your T shirt.

Many of Sue’s photographs are or ordinary things shot so close, they become almost abstract.  Frost flowers bloom on a windshield, reflections roil the surface of a river, raindrops splash on a Lincoln’s hood.  Herimages celebrate the present moment and the inevitability of change.

Many of Jack’s photographs have a timeless feel to them. Despite wind and weather, the ripples of sand dunes in Death Valley and the monuments in the rain in Monument Valley have an eternal feel to them.

Both Jack and Sue shoot in black and white, color, and sepia..