Jeff Rich is an American photographer and educator, born in 1977. He grew up in Satellite Beach, Florida, near the Kennedy Space Center, and earned a BFA in film and video (2000) and an MFA in photography (2008) at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has taught photography at the University of Iowa and at Coastal Carolina University.
His work looks at water, from recreation and sustainability to exploitation and abuse, through long-term projects on specific regions of the United States. His series Watershed began with the French Broad River: Watershed: A Survey of the French Broad River Basin won the 2010 Critical Mass Book Award and was published by Photolucida in 2012. The second chapter, Watershed: The Tennessee River (Fall Line Press, 2017), looks at the Tennessee Valley Authority and its rivers. He has also curated the series Eyes on the South for the Oxford American.
His photographs are in collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Library of Congress.
