hi, i’m jess. (Which gets confusing when someone says “yes” in public. I answer more often than I’d like to admit.)

I’m an East Coast native who moved to Utah in 2020 and somehow never left. I’m newly engaged to my wonderful Jay, and mom to my almost-eight-year-old little guy, Grayson.

Before photography took over, I worked in event planning and floral design, so making things has pretty much always been part of the deal. I’m Italian, very much still a Jersey girl at heart, and will choose a cold drink on the beach over just about anything.

Photography has taken me through 28+ states and around the world, from Hawaii and Alaska to Italy, the Azores, and Costa Rica. I photograph weddings, families, couples, and whatever else gives me an excuse to make something interesting.

I take the work seriously, but we absolutely do not need to take ourselves seriously while we’re making it. You don’t need to know what to do with your hands. That’s my problem.

You just show up. I’ve got the rest.

Black and white close-up photograph of a man smiling, with part of his hand touching his face.
Black and white close-up photograph of a man smiling, with part of his hand touching his face.
A person with tattoos is reaching out from a boat to hold the hand of a child who is leaning over the boat's edge. The child is wearing a red and white shirt and is looking down. The boat is on the water, with another person visible in the background.
A black and white photograph of a man standing in a recording studio, holding a piece of paper in front of a microphone. There is an old television on a small table and a large vintage camera with 'WPTZ' and 'Television' written on it.
Black and white photograph of three men, two sitting and one standing behind, in a television studio setting. One man is holding a book titled 'The Last Great Show by Bob Hope.' The man on the right is wearing a suit and striped tie, while the man on the left is also dressed formally. The man in the middle is smiling and wearing a white shirt.

My grandfather, Louis, was a set designer and photographer in the film industry, and one of my earliest creative influences. In his later years, he lived with dementia, and photographs became more than something beautiful to look back on. They helped keep pieces of his life, and ours with him, alive.

I think that’s always stayed with me. A photograph can be art, but it can also become something much bigger with time.

A generation later, I get to make both.

Black and white photo of a weather woman holding a globe, standing in front of a map of the United States, with a cameraman filming her.
Black and white photograph of two men standing together in a studio or newsroom, one wearing headphones and a microphone, the other in a checked blazer, with a TV station logo on a monitor in the background.
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