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Jessica is a multimedia artist engaging through the mediums of photography, the written word, moving + found imagery, and publication.

Based between London and NYC, her work exists as a continuous examination of how history, place, memory, and experience come together to inform identity.

She is drawn to the stories of women, and the largely unseen, observing the ways in which identities have evolved as a result of their surroundings, and exploring how the process of making might foster empathy, reclamation, and freedom for the subject, the viewer, and the self.

Exhibitions  

2022  British Journal of Photography International Photography Award Group Show - SeenFifteen Gallery, London

2021  Art of Color Dior: Photography and Visual Arts Award Retrospective- Shenzen Museum of Contemporary Arts, Shenzen 

2021  Commodities - The Molasses Gallery, London

2021  Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award - LUMA Arles, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles

2021  Palm* Photo Prize - 10 14 Gallery, London

2021  Der Greif Guest Room: Gem Fletcher ‘optimism and revolution-making’ (online)

2021  Der Greif Guest Room: Anna-Alix Koffi ‘Pleasing doesn't interest me...’ (online)

Awards

2022  British Journal of Photography International Photography Award (Single Image Winner) 

2021  Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award (shortlist)

2021  Palm* Photo Prize (shortlist)

2021  Creative Review - Photography Annual - Honourable Mention