Jeanette Shustack-Allred

Jeanette Shustack-Allred is a photographer and retoucher currently based in the greater Philadelphia area. She specializes in fashion and beauty product photography. In 2016, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in photography from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. While Jeanette is based near Philadelphia, she is also available in Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Delaware, NYC and the DMV area. 

Since 2014, Jeanette has been working in the fashion industry in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA. She has experience working as a product photographer and retoucher for companies like American Eagle Outfitters, QVC, and Marlyn Schiff Jewelry as well as experience photographing live runway events for Pittsburgh Fashion Week and Philly Fashion Week.

Jeanette also incorporates fashion and beauty into her personal work by creating photographs with social themes such as women’s empowerment and environmental issues. Her past series Common Ground and Celebrating Women explore some of these subjects. Jeanette is currently working on a project that investigates recycling and reusing materials, with a connection to fashion. She will be studying recycling in general and then tying it to reusing materials in the fashion industry.

Along with fashion and product photography, Jeanette also has a background in graphic design and videography. For thirteen years she worked in the U.S. Army as a Multimedia Illustrator. Here she designed products like logos, page layouts, and posters. Knowing this, you can see how she is influenced by graphic design. Her time in the Army is also where she learned video editing. Jeanette continues to explore video in her current work. She now films and edits her own videos, as well as creating animations with still images. As in all of her imagery, she ties in fashion elements into her video work as well.

Jeanette’s work reflects an influence from both fashion and graphic design. She utilizes bold color and patterns within her work, which gives her photographs a distinctive sense of elegance. She plays with dynamic color combinations that highlight relationships in her subjects. Jeanette has her hand in every part of the production of her imagery. She plays the part of creative director on her personal projects by conceptualizing models hair, makeup and wardrobe. She also is involved in the photo styling on set, building backdrops and creating accessories, like headpieces, that she uses in her photographs.