About
Hello, I'm Jess
I've been photographing people for fifteen years, and the thing that keeps me here isn't the camera — it's the hour before it comes out. The conversation. Learning what your daughter is like when she forgets she's being watched.
I grew up in a house full of albums, and I understood early that a photograph does something a memory can't: it holds still. That belief shapes how I work — slowly, warmly, and with an eye toward images that will outlive every trend.
“My job isn't to make you look like someone else. It's to make you look like yourself on a very good day.”
A few favorites
Off the clock
Coffee order
Cortado, one sugar, before anyone else is awake
Always in my bag
A 35mm lens and far too many hair ties
Weekend ritual
Farmers market, then a long walk with the dog
On repeat
Old folk records and audiobooks about houses
Favorite light
Twenty minutes before the sun disappears
Home
A creaky old farmhouse with good windows
