Her book, STILL: The Art of Noticing, now in its fourth printing, features 275 photographs from the project accompanied by thoughtful and often gently humorous essays reflecting on the insights gained through years of sustained observation.

Hoffman lives in Shoreview, Minnesota, on the shores of Turtle Lake, where the surrounding woods, fields, and water continue to provide daily inspiration for her practice.

Website: https://stillblog.net/

Mary Jo Hoffman

Mary Jo Hoffman is an artist and photographer known for her intimate and contemplative engagement with the natural world. She is the creator of STILL, a daily photographic practice in which, for more than a decade, she created one image each day of a foraged natural object such as, leaves, seedpods, flowers, insects, and other quiet seasonal remnants, isolated against a white background.

Through this disciplined ritual, Hoffman developed a body of work that reflects a profound attentiveness to subtlety, seasonality, and place. Her images invite viewers to pause and consider the beauty of the often-overlooked “infraordinary”—those small, familiar details that reveal extraordinary complexity when truly seen. What began as a daily act of noticing evolved into a meditation on connectedness, time, and the creative life.