JT (“Jenn”) graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2000 and served six years as an active duty Army Officer, which included first rotation combat deployments into Afghanistan and Iraq. Inspired by capturing the culture and the people of those lands, she discovered her passion for photography and has pursued the field ever since.

Parallel, her current body of work exploring the symmetry between the human form and fossils of prehistoric creatures, is currently on exhibition at the Martine Chaisson Gallery in New Orleans, running through June 30th 2012.

Other recent accomplishments include:

  • 2nd Prize, Oceans Series, Photo Annual Awards (Group Exhibition), Czech Republic, 2012
  • Photo documentary and story, “I’ve fallen in love with the pelicans,” published in Fraction Magazine, Issue 37, April 2012
  • Judge’s Award, LSU’s 25th International Exhibition of Animals in Art (Group Exhibition), 2012
  • International Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography (Group Exhibition), Buenos Aires, 2012
  • 1st Prize, Environmental Issues, Annual Pollux Awards (WPGA), 2011
  • 1st Prize, Fine Art, June Pollux Awards (WPGA), 2011
  • NOIR (Group Exhibition), New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, 2011
  • Science, Poetry and the Photographic Image (Group Exhibition), Trois Gallery, Atlanta, GA; Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, 2011
  • Self-published Who Dat Nation, a photographic book capturing the ebullient spirit of New Orleans during the days leading up to and through Super Bowl XLIV

Other publications include:

  • Charleston Magazine
  • National Geographic Traveler
  • PDN Photo of the Day
  • National Geographic Daily Dozen
  • Savannah Magazine
  • Connect Savannah Magazine
  • Cemetery Dance Magazine
  • The Sentinel (Prince George County)
  • Delaware News Journal

She has also been published in four 2011 photography books by the Worldwide Photography Gala Awards: Best Shots, Storyteller, Portraits and People 2011, and Beauty Around Us.

JT currently spends her time in between Savannah, GA, and New Orleans, LA, working on a long-term documentary of the threatened tradition of seafood harvest.