Deja Vu

Who am I? My name is Joshua Jenkins, and I was born and raised in Birmingham, AL. I am a 23 about to be 24-year-old college grad who doesn’t know exactly what he wants to do with his life, but he does know that he loves cameras. Funny story though growing up I hated the thought of getting a picture taken of myself. My father was a wedding photographer so naturally I was always around cameras. I don’t know why I had such a problem with them but even to this day I don’t really have a lot of pictures of me and my young adult age. It’s almost like I am naturally good at avoiding the camera. Somewhere through college finding ways to hide from my course work whenever I had the chance, I found myself picking up the very thing that I despised all those years. Learning slowly about them and how they worked. The summer going into the end of my college journey, I found myself in a quarter life crisis going through a breakup that tore me apart more than it should have and through this world ending tragedy I found myself again picking up a camera. During this time, I convinced myself to just buy my own camera instead of always snatching my father’s cameras. I opted for a Sony A7ii and have not look back since. This is my first blog post and really, I just wanted a place to show my art without any care of what the world thought about it while also being more personal with my audience. I feel like here I can grow in a safe environment sharing the good and bad of my artwork while adding whatever commentary I choose to add. Hopefully I can tell an interesting story about my journey through the world of photography. I guess the cool part about this is if you want to be here, you’re welcome to stay but if you don’t your equally as welcomed to leave. Either way I’m glad you’re here 🙂

Montgomery, AL 2022 (Taken after my first ever photoshoot)