These photographs and prints are works that I made and was thinking about while I was living in Rome during the past year at the American Academy. The photographs are self-portrait silver gelatin prints on fiber-based paper. The prints are lithographs that were printed with Beatrice and Flaminia Bulla at Litografia Bulla in Rome.

Jennifer Bornstein is an artist fellow at the American Academy in Rome during the 2025-26 year. Producing work in a blend of media associated in ways both materially and conceptually with photographic processes, she uses printmaking, video, 16mm film and photography as a means of telling stories, incorporating performative histories, and weaving autobiography together with fiction. When not in Rome, she lives in Los Angeles and is a professor of photography at the University of California, Irvine.