Based in Los Angeles, I work around themes of memory, gender, and process. The fixation with texture comes from years of building tiny Jenga dessert towers as a pastry chef in Michelin restaurants and hotels across the US. Now I document what lies beyond the food porn feed: the people, landscape, and possibility.
Publications include The Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica, Noice, F-Stop, and Midnite Snack.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Happening/Happenstance, Ephemere, Tokyo
2024 Thresholds: Photography and Urban Architecture, LACP, Los Angeles
2023 We Like Small Things, V.6, Filter Photo, Chicago
I am a ballet fanatic and would never say no to a green tamale.
+1 202 340 6555
jess.stephens@gmail.com