Jenny Helbraun Abramson is a lens-based visual artist who uses self-portraiture and landscape photography to explore the spiritual impulse and our journey through the transformative demands of living. The landscape plays a key role in her artistic vision, as a salve to life’s trials and as a mirror for emerging wisdom. 

Jenny studied photography and printmaking at SUNY Purchase School of the Arts and at San Francisco State University; her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections throughout the United States. Her 2021 series “Emergence” received an honorable mention in the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, and selections were exhibited at Fotonostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona in 2023.  Her 2023 series, “WaterWorld,” received an honorable mention in the 21st Julia Margaret Cameron Awards with selections exhibited in the 2025 award show. Her "Journey of Grief" portfolio was exhibited at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in 2022. Jenny’s work documenting the impacts of fire and flood in her home community were exhibited widely in California and Hawaii, and appeared in the Fifth National Climate Assessment’s Art X Climate online gallery.

Recent work includes photographic objects that document communal expressions of memory and loss, exploring alternative photographic processes, and handmade artist’s books exploring her more unusual life experiences.  “A Unique Motherhood,” a metaphorical retelling of her years raising a foster-adopt child, was part of the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 2026 Handmade Photobook Exhibition. Her book “Girl Carpenter,” about the decade she spent working in the construction trades, is currently on exhibit at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. In winter 2026-27, she will spend two months in residency at Kala Institute in Berkeley, California, developing a special edition of a third handmade photobook, as photogravure.