About Jerry Sedgewick

As Writer
As Photographer
As Scientist
Personal/Contact Info

AS WRITER. Writing is a first love for Mr. Sedgewick. At the age of 19 he began this journey as an undergraduate at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Jerry Sedgewick's commentaries have been published in the local "StarTribune" newspaper and by the "Catholic Digest." The book, "Quick Photoshop for Research: A Guide to Digital Imaging for Photoshop 5x, 6x, & 7x." is available from Springer Press. This book will be updated as of September, 2006 and made available as an e-book. He has also written a book chapter to be published by Humana Press.

Jerry has created two covers for "Science," and has been a co-author in numerous scientific papers. For more information check cv-resume-short4.pdf.

Mr. Sedgewick wrote, produced and appeared in a one-man, multimedia performance entitled "Raw Cud" in 2001. He made several short films for this production, wrote lyrics and melody lines for the musical sections, and read from his collection of cultural commentaries and prose poetry.

Jerry has completed a novel entitled "The Gospel of Mary According to Marg," and is searching for a publisher. He is also looking for a theatre company to perform his musical, "Moses the Black."

AS PHOTOGRAPHER. Jerry Sedgewick has spent over 20 years as a professional photographer, working as a commercial, editorial and biological photographer. In the last 15 years, Jerry has specialized in digital imaging for the sciences using various light microscopy devices.

His photographic interests are divided into explorations of flowers and fruit from an insect's perspective and comparative photos (donned "photocomparisons") of humans.

Photographs of nature reflect a desire to see innocently: to record how light travels along and through flower and fruit topography in ways visible to a passing bee or an investigative ant. He is simultaneously fulfilling his desire to see nature in visionary ways and his desire to place art into the hands of those who desire to add beauty to their walls.

PhotoComparisons mark the combination of Jerry's background in writing and his penchant for capturing visual imagery as almost a scientific study. His desire arises out of passionate interest in conveying the oddities of our culture, as well as the vagaries of life as pilgrims on Earth. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Photocomparisons are worth two thousand.

These photographs, for the time being, are only shown on this website. To date, Jerry has published "12 Minutes of TV." Gallery showings and further publications of his work are forthcoming.

JERRY SEDGEWICK AS SCIENTIST.   Jerry Sedgewick has worked as the director of a light microscopy/digital imaging/genomics lab since 1998 at the University of Minnesota (www.bipl.umn.edu). He is currently working on an invention for improving the light source for several applications, including the imaging of materials generated for molecular biology, for light microscopy, and for in vivo.

PERSONAL.  Jerry lives with his wife, Jan Shafer, and two sons, 18-year-old Levi and 14-year-old Luke. They take up their residence in an out-of-the-way neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Jerry and family make their second home at St. Luke's church in St. Paul. Our hope is to fulfill what a fourth century bishop once said: "the best testimony to Christianity is to be fully alive."