Jeff Zaruba (Born 1953) was born in Philadelphia. He grew up in the Chicago area, and then moved west to Arizona with his parents in 1972. While he was in Arizona, he first studied Architecture, before he switched to Photography and Fine Art, graduating in 1975 from Arizona State University. Zaruba started his freelance business in Los Angeles in 1977 after assisting commercially for 2 years back in Chicago. Over the past three decades, he has completed assignments in more than 30 countries, and lived up and down the West Coast. He’s currently in Arizona, and is still working on architectural travel assignments and spending a great deal of time producing his art work. Most of his photos have a strong graphic element. He loves the interplay of forms, shapes, light, shadows and reflections. Zaruba appreciates patina, and also the sensibility of a culture that embraces it.
It’s interesting that he finds that his current work resembles the Graphite pencil drawings that he did in Art School more than 30 years ago. Zaruba has been traveling the world on assignments for corporations, ad agencies, hotels, magazines and resorts. Traditionally, he’s trained with film and in the darkroom. His personal work has been published in numerous magazines and in the B&W Spider Awards 2005 International Competition he was awarded top prize “Photographer of the Year”. He is represented by several galleries across the country. Some of his clients include Anderson Windows and Doors, Axis Architecture – Carmax, Colliers international, Dryer’s Ice Cream, Four Seasons Magazine, and many others.
