Photographer & Writer
Light, place,
and memory.
I make quiet photographs and write essays about the space between what we see and what we remember. This is my working archive.
Selected Work
Photography
A rotating selection of frames from ongoing series across Europe and the studio.
Words
Written Pieces
- Field NotesMarch 2024
On the Patience of Fog
A morning spent waiting for the coast to reveal itself, and what the waiting taught me about seeing before shooting.
6 min - EssayJanuary 2024
The Weight of a Single Frame
Why I shoot film in an age of infinite exposures, and how scarcity sharpens attention to the ordinary.
9 min - EssayNovember 2023
Strangers I Have Almost Known
Notes on street portraiture, consent, and the quiet negotiation that happens in the half-second before a shutter.
7 min - Field NotesSeptember 2023
Rooms That Remember
On photographing empty interiors and the strange grief of spaces that outlast the people who filled them.
5 min
About
I'm Jalen — I photograph the quiet and write around it.
I carry a camera through coastlines, cities, and the small rooms of strangers, drawn to the moments that resist explanation. My work lives at the edge of documentary and something more personal.
Alongside the images, I write essays and field notes — attempts to understand why a certain light, a certain silence, refuses to let me go. The photographs and the words are the same practice by different means.
- Exhibitions
- 14
- Published essays
- 60+
- Years working
- 13