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BIO

Truth, Beauty, and Pride are the themes of photographer, Natalie Jackson's work. They come together to tell gripping stories of Black life, past and present. Having lived in Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Charlotte, she gathered experiences, education, and history and returned to the Midwest. She has worked as a staff photographer for Good News Magazine in Atlanta, Georgia to a medical photographer for Soderstrom Skin Institute in Peoria, Illinois. Years after receiving a Marketing degree she went back to school to study photography, a lifelong passion. She sits on the Board of Directors at the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria and the Central Illinois Jazz Society.  She has a studio and gallery in the Contemporary Art Center of Peoria.  She shoots, sells, and displays her artwork there.