Ripple’s work is represented in a growing number of individual, corporate, and museum collections, including most recently Miami Baptist Hospital (Miami, Fla.), Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, Ala.), Arts in Medicine Program at Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.), and the Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainesville, Fla.). Within the last year, he participated in six museum exhibits-five of them solo. In 1999 and 2002, Jeff received grants from the Florida Humanities Council to help fund his photographic project about the natural and cultural landscapes of a remote swamp in southwest Florida. This project is now a traveling museum exhibit entitled Fakahatchee-Natural and Cultural Landscapes, on tour through 2004.
Jeff is also the author and/or photographer of seven books, including Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands, The Florida Keys-Natural Wonders of an Island Paradise, Sea Turtles, Florida-The Natural Wonders, Southwest Florida Wetland Wilderness, The Wild Heart of Florida, and Manatees and Dugongs of the World. He is currently finishing the companion coffee table volume to his touring museum exhibit. Ripple’s photography appears regularly in books, calendars, and national magazines.Jeff lives with his wife, Renée, and their four cats in a small house in the woods outside Gainesville, Fla.
