Background
Janet Fries was born on May 2, 1949 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States.
Janet Fries was born on May 2, 1949 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States.
Janet Fries received her Bachelor of Arts in Art from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1971), and her Master of Arts in Photography from San Francisco State University (1976).
Janet Fries has been a freelance photographer since 1973, specializing in photojournalism. She also teaches at City College of San Francisco (since 1977) and at the University of California Extension Center in San Francisco (since 1978). She taught at San Francisco State University from 1977 to 1979.
Working exclusively in small format, Janet Fries has used both black-and-white and color. Many of her images are offshoots of her photojournalism assignmentsrsity from 1977 to 1979.
Janet Fries is a member of ASMP and the Center for the Visual Arts and was a board member of Camera-works Gallery (1977-1979).