Photo by Alex Harkey; 2025
April 2009, Kodak EasyShare C813 Zoom, Age 13
My name is Jocelyn, born Aug. ‘95.
I got my first camera at 13. I took a picture of a sunset and the rest became history.
Shamelessly, I broke it when I was trying to take a selfie & it fell face-first on its lens. I was too embarassed to tell my mom (I told her I lost it), so I saved up my lunch money to buy another.
A few years later, I got my first DSLR.
Since then, I’ve somehow known exactly what to do, while simultaneously having no idea what I’m doing. And I love to embrace that.
I’ve snuck into fashion shows and concerts, harassed photographers to be their assistant, taken my camera while treading through waist-high water, and shot bike races in 100+ degree Texas weather while pregnant — all while thinking I didn’t have what it took to do it for a living.
I would describe my style of shooting as “photo-documentary'“. I believe any moment can be photographed to be fascinating, simply by framing it to ask a question.