Keri Pickett, Photographer
Saving Body & Soul:
The Mission of Mary Jo Copeland

Keri Pickett is an award-winning photographer based in Minneapolis whose work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Her journalistic work focuses primarily on human-interest feature stories and environmental portraits that capture the essence of her subjects. Her photographs translate some of the most complicated human emotions into moving photographic images.

Pickett grew up in Minnesota and earned an art degree from Moorhead State University. After graduation, she began her career in New York City with an internship at The Village Voice Newspaper and international travel in Africa and India. Her photographs have run in a wide spectrum of magazines ranging from People, Time and Life to Geo, Parenting and Christianity Today.

Her first book, Love in the 90s: BB and Jo, The Story of a Lifelong Love, A Granddaughter's Portrait had an initial printing of 150,000 copies and won the American Photography 12 Book Award in 1996, earning Pickett features on numerous national television programs including Good Morning America.

She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including three McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, a Bush Foundation Fellowship and support from the Jerome Foundation.

Based in Minneapolis, she continues her global search for different ways people both cope with and celebrate life.