About Jen
Growing up with an outdoor adventurer for a father and a poet for a mother, Jen inherited both a love of wild places and a reverence for their mystery. She spent her childhood sailing the Great Lakes and venturing into the wilds of Michigan and Ontario by car, foot, and canoe. Cool waters and crashing waves called her to action, while mossy forests and quiet landscapes invited her to imagine hidden wonders behind every corner. Today, she continues to view the natural world with that same wide-eyed wonder, weaving both adventure and poetry into her photography.
Jen is based in Big Sky, Montana, where she and her husband are raising three adventurous children. Together, they roam the mountains, deserts, and rivers of Montana, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, and Washington—hiking, camping, skiing, fishing, and kayaking along the way.
As a student in Montana State University’s School of Film and Photography, she explores both analogue and digital processes with the same curiosity that draws her outdoors. Her photographs and handcrafted books offer intimate portraits of the waters and landscapes that have shaped her life. At the heart of her work lies a single thread: the humbleness of the human experience within the vastness of the American West.
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
