Wanderer, stroller, flâneuse. Photographer, Candice J. Jacobus roams the world looking, noticing and making images of people, and the places they inhabit.

An observer of street life, whether in her home of San Francisco or in cities around the world, Candice searches out the byways and markets where locals carry on their public, or not so public, lives. Often, it’s not the individuals, but the doorway they may emerge from, or the corner that they may round that captures her eye. Sometimes a window beckons, what is happening within? Often it is the ghost of a being converging with time past and future in a shop window. Always there is the sense of a human presence.

She is currently editing for self-publication the thousands of images of San Francisco, California she took from day one of the Covid lockdown. Looked at from a distance of two years, the empty city could be the result of any number of modern disasters, but it was a plague. Images from tourist-mecca San Francisco’s suddenly childless playgrounds, vacant transit hubs, and cable carless streets could speak to a nuclear disaster, but instead they are Postcards from the Pandemic. Included in the book are also many images of masked strangers she encountered in her wanderings: everyday folks with handmade protection against the unknown menace.

Candice’s ongoing projects include:

Ruminations: images of reflections. Older shop windows, often cluttered, speak to a time that is rapidly changing, is in fact disappearing. Time, past and present, and even future collide in a mysterious space. And on an occasion, a soul passes through.

Vanishing Market Street: San Francisco with Market Street as the throughline is changing, rapidly becoming a city of ticky-tacky boxes (albeit multi-story ones) that we once mocked as the epitome of the boring suburbs.

And Stars and Stripes Wherever: a series investigating the relationship of everyday life to the United States flag.

Candice has studied art most of her life: the history of art (BFA, CSU San Jose), creating images (MA in photo-etching, CSU San Francisco,) and publication design. Her work has been shown internationally in galleries including: HBK-Galerie, Dallas Center for Photography, Gray Loft, PhotoPlace, SFWA Gallery; as well as in many collections.

For more information, to purchase, or for permission to use a photograph in digital, print, or other format, contact Candice Jean Jacobus.

candicejfoto@gmail.com