About

Jayanti Seiler is an acclaimed documentary photographer and instructional designer with over 30 years of visual media experience. She holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Florida where she was the recipient of the Graduate Fellowship Award, a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where she received the T.C. Colley Award and Scholarship, and an MS in Instructional Design and Technology from the University of Central Florida. From 2011 to 2023, Seiler served as a Professor and Assistant Department Chair for some of that time at the Daytona State College School of Photography and Media Studies before designing eLearning curriculum for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice.

Jayanti's photography has gained national and international recognition in publications including, The New York Times LENS, The Orlando Magazine (FL), LIFE FORCE Magazine (UK), GEO WISSEN Magazine (Germany), Index, hu (Hungary), and The Telegraph (UK), Véganes magazine contreculturel (Canada), Vision Magazine (Beijing), LENSCRATCH, and Bird In Flight Magazine (Russia). Jayanti’s work has been exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography (FL), Workspace Gallery (NE), Chiang Mai University Art Museum (Thailand), Harvard University (MA), Museum of Contemporary Art (GA), and The von Liebig Art Center (FL).

In 2017, she founded JayantiPictures, LLC to produce art projects advancing animal welfare, releasing her monograph Of One and The Other in 2018 to explore human-animal relationships. Also a former Guardian ad Litem, a court appointed advocate representing the rights of children in the foster care system, she created documentary film highlighting former foster youth and GAL volunteers. The film was exhibited at University Gallery at UF, and screened at the Pride Community Center of North Central FL and the Alachua County Partnership for Strong Families (FL).