APOLLO TO ARTEMIS
By Mike Jackson
Mike Jackson’s series ‘APOLLO TO ARTEMIS’ dedicates eight unique prints to a selection of female engineers that worked behind the scenes on the Apollo missions, through to the modern day missions too and who have all played an essential part in the success of space projects old and new.
The images are abstract representations of feelings about space missions and have a 3D-like quality to them. They are unique silver gelatin prints made in a traditional darkroom by drawing with light on light sensitive paper. Not a photograph in itself, but its own new medium ‘photographic art.’ In each one Jackson captures the sense of journey, calculation and adventure.
Artwork details:
Silver gelatin prints
Unframed
2021
Prices vary by print and sizes listed below. One-to-one customer service provided. Prices do not include shipping, insurance, taxes, or import fees.
"I often tell my teenage daughter that engineering is an incredible career choice for women - and these female engineers are inspirational role models for girls of all ages."
— Mike Jackson
"A true avant-garde of photography, he is on his way to becoming one of the most renowned contemporary fine art photographers"
— Lomography Magazine
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SHOTWELL
Paying homage to Gwen Shotwell - engineer and President/COO SpaceX
Artwork Size: 24”x20”
$5,000 USD -
MORGAN
Paying homage to JoAnn Morgan - the first female aerospace engineer at NASA and the only female in the firing room for the launch of Apollo 11
Artwork Size: 24”x20”
$5,000 USD -
JOHNSON
Paying homage to Katherine Johnson - a mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics at NASA were critical to the success of the first US crew spaceflight
Artwork Size: 24”x20”
$5,000 USD
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RIDE
Paying homage to Sally Ride - astronaut, physicist and first US woman in space
Artwork Size: 24”x20”
$5,000 USD
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RIDINGS
Saluting Holly Ridings - mechanical engineer and Chief Flight Director for NASA – leading NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon
Artwork Size: 22”x10”
$3,500 USD
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JEMISON
Saluting Mae Jemison - engineer, physician and the first black woman to travel into space
Artwork Size: 16”x20”
$3,500
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OCHOA
Saluting Ellen Ochoa - engineer and astronaut, the first Hispanic woman to go to space
Artwork Size: 8”x10”
$1,750 USD
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JACKSON
Saluting Mary Jackson - mathematician and the first African American female engineer at NASA
Artwork Size: 8”x10”
$1,750 USD
About the Artist
Mike Jackson is a darkroom artist and a leading exponent of cameraless photography, with work held at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and numerous private collections. He works with traditional photographic paper in a darkened studio and makes his work using controlled rays of light that react with the silver gelatin paper once developed in chemicals. This way of working and his ethic regarding the constant need to discover and experiment has given him a unique aesthetic producing immediately recognizable results.