Jana Marcus

Jana Marcus Photography

Jana Marcus has been creating award-winning photography for over 25 years. She is a professional photographer in the California Bay Area with a focus on glamour portraits, headshots, theatrical stills and publicity images, as well as documentary and commercial genres. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and extensively published in newspapers and magazines.

Jana has received many prestigious awards over the years, including The Gail Rich Award in 2016 for contributions to the Arts in Santa Cruz County, the UC Berkeley Center for Photography’s International Photojournalism Award for her series After Midnight: Youth Subcultures of New York City, Best Photos of the Year in 2004 and 2005 by Photo District News of New York and she was named one of "50 Exceptional International Photographers" by Exposure of New York in 2012. Her latest book Transfigurations received the "Best LGBT Non-Fiction Book of 2012" by the Independent Publishers Book Awards.

Jana received her MFA from San Jose State University, a BA in Community Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied photography at The School Of Visual Arts in New York City. Jana’s first book, In The Shadow of the Vampire: Reflections From The World Of Anne Rice, was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press of New York. She is currently finishing her first non-fiction narrative book, Line of Blood – with no photos – which will be published soon.

Jana has taught photography at San Jose State University and frequently lectures on the subject of documentary photography.