[+About Me+]
Teofila “Jack” Hardy (b. 2005) is a queer and gender-confused photographer based in Massachusetts who uses photography as a means of exploring the complicated nature of having a body, existing in a place, and knowing people. Their work aims to question and redefine what makes a photo, and when photography stops being photography and becomes something else entirely. Jack is interested in breaking the rules of photography with experimental processes both in and out of the darkroom, including but not limited to: lumen printing, databending, making photograms, cyanotyping, and setting things on fire sometimes. Through digital processes like databending, they use their work to comment on image-making and media consumption in the Internet Age, and how the information superhighway has distorted and somewhat destroyed culture as we know it. Physicality and texture in a two-dimensional space is something they enjoy exploring in their work, combining lumen printing and silver gelatin prints with elements of collage to create intimately tangible final products (which often contain bodily fluids of some kind, usually spit, and various kitchen chemicals). They like describing a breathing thing with dead objects. Jack occasionally finds time to paint, illustrate, write, and perform.
Jack is currently attending Montserrat College of Art. They have appeared in multiple school-based exhibitions and publications, and their work has been featured in The Image Flow’s 2026 Queer Conscience Exhibition in San Anselmo, CA.