Jane Liechty is a fine art photographer specializing in portraiture and documentary work. She was born in Sheffield, England. She earned a music degree from The University of Birmingham and an elementary school teaching certification from The University of Cambridge. While in Cambridge, she met and married her husband. They moved to the United States and settled in State College, Pennsylvania. She has spent the last twenty years raising her family. Now that her children are grown, she has taken up photography. Jane will graduate with a Bachelor of Design in Professional Photography from the Pennsylvania State University in December 2024. In 2021, she received the Leslie P. Greenhill scholarship which recognizes students who exhibit serious involvement in and commitment to photography. She also serves as president of the State College Photography Club.
During the academic year 2022-23, Jane lived abroad in Cambridge, England, where she completed two large-scale photography projects. The first project is a personal perspective of her experience in Cambridge. The second is a visit to the properties on the London Monopoly board, including train stations, utilities, and go-to-jail. Both projects will be published as books. She is currently photographing Pennsylvanian history in the context of war memory: what we choose to remember, how, and why is the thesis of this body of work. This will be the civics education that she never got (in England, barely a mention of the Revolutionary War) and a chance to connect with the land she now calls home.
