Jane Fulton Alt is an American photographer. She lives and works in Evanston, Illinois, and in New Orleans. She began in the visual arts while working as a clinical social worker.
Her first book is Look and Leave (The Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2009). It shows photographs and stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina. Her second book is The Burn (Kehrer Verlag, 2013). It looks at a planned prairie fire near the Ragdale Residency.
Her third book is Still Life: A Photographer's Journey Through Grief and Gardening (MW Editions, 2026). After the sudden death of her husband, she took over the native garden he had begun and photographed it for years. The book has 104 pages. She used only natural light.
Alt is a three-time winner of Photolucida's Critical Mass. She received the Photo District News Curator's Choice Award in 2011 and the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in 2007. Her work is in collections including the Smithsonian Photographic History Collection at the National Museum of American History and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
