Photographer 2: Jake Garn

Jake Garn

Jake Garn is a published photographer and international award winning photographer, but photography is not a full-time profession but more of a passionate hobby.

Jake has been filled with an unquenchable need to create for as long as he can remember, whether it was a drawing, building a fort, or even writing stand-up comedy. His photography bug was planted in the mid 90’s during a simple Introduction to Photography course. For Jake the dark room, the camera, the chemicals all screamed out with possibilities in addition to the new extraordinarily advanced Adobe Photoshop (version 2.5) a long term love-affair was set. As photography made it’s way into the digital age the format became increasingly custom-tailored to Jake’s love of instant gratification and attention-deficit tendencies. Jake purchasing his first digital SLR camera in 2002 which began the transformation of photography from a casual hobby into a bit of an obsession for this photographer.

Some of Jake’s inspiration include the Mona Lisa, American Gothic, Van Gogh, Picasso, Michaelangelo’s David, Richard Avedon (Matthew Cooke, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Mark Seliger, Patrick Demarchelier, Gerald Bybee and of course, above all of them his wife Jennifer.

Jake states that “I love color, I love crazy, I love beauty, I love a dash of humor in my images and I love my wife, son, dogs and cat”. I feel like Jake has a great eye and a good foundation for inspiration. He as well inspires me to become a better photographer and expand my knowledge and experience with photography. As Jake I picked up a camera as a passion and a hobby and it is slowly turning into what I want to do for a living. I love the very strong photos Jake takes and I feel we hold some of the same values with color and crazy photos. As Jake, I want to emit emotion and creativity through my photography.