Image: 2-channel still
from the HD video installation
entitled, Docket (2011)
(video on Links page)

Jayanti Seiler is a photographer and video artist. She received her MFA in Photography from the University of Florida and her BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design. Jayanti is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at the SE Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona State College in Daytona Beach, FL. Her photography and video work was exhibited recently at Harvard University, University of Florida and Washington State University. Jayanti employs photography and video to bridge a relationship between documentary and activism, using collaboration to empower her subjects, generate awareness and promote social change.

In 2010, Jayanti became a Guardian ad Litem (GAL) volunteer in Alachua County, a court appointed advocate for children that have been brought into the court system due to abuse and neglect. She produced an experimental documentary video and installation titled, Docket, to heighten awareness about abuses that unwittingly occur in the child welfare system. In 2011, Docket was exhibited and screened in Gainesville Florida at the University Gallery, the Pride Community Center of North Central Florida and the Alachua County Partnership for Strong Families.

Jayanti is the recipient of the University Graduate Fellowship Award and the Dennis & Colette Campay Scholarship at the University of Florida. She manages a commercial photography business started in 2007, in which she incorporates her fine art sensibilities.