ABOUT
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Jess Richmond was raised with an innate although unnatural love of cheese wiz. She is now based in NYC and lives in and works from her studio in Brooklyn.
After earning her degree from Parsons The New School for Design, she has worked with various clients as well as exhibiting her own fine art.
She enjoys all things colorful and edible.
CONTACT
For bookings and collaborations, contact jess@jessrichmond.com
CLIENTS + PUBLICATIONS
Refinery29, Carolina Herrera, Microsoft, Casio, Def Jam Records, Amika, Eva NYC, HUE, Penguin Random House Publishing, Sweet Snapchat, PDNedu Harper's Bazaar China, Surface Magazine, Photo District News, The New York Times, GUP Magazine, PDN Edu, Fucking Young Magazine, BLAAAH Magazine, Bullett Media, Fast Co. Design, Business Insider, Metropolis Magazine, Profound Aesthetic Co.
EXHIBITIONS
Leslie-Lohman Museum, Daybreak: New Affirmations in Queer Photography, NYC 2018
The Treads That Bind, Pro Arte Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
Flash Forward 2016: Magenta Foundation, Division Gallery, Toronto 2016
Represent: 29 Women We Admire, Refinery29, Photoville, NYC & Washington DC 2016
A Curator Exhibition, PDN, Grand Prize Winner, Foley Gallery, NYC 2016
The Madness of Many, Milk Gallery, BFA Photography, NYC 2016
The Bushwick Collective Exhibition, NYC 2016
Photo Feast Exhibition, NYC 2014
PROOF Media for Social Justice, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 2014
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AWARDS
SDP 53 Award, Best Fashion/Beauty Editorial, Graphic Tights, Refinery29, 2019
Pro-Arte Grant Recipient, St. Petersburg, Russia 2017
PDN Curator Award, Grand Prize Winner 2016
Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward Winner 2016
SURFACE Magazine, Avant Guardian Award 2015
Selected Scholarship Grant Recipient, The Dream is Over, Parsons 2013
RECENT PRESS
NEWFLESH by Gnomic book, 2019
DIGITAL PHOTO PRO April 2019 cover
WALLPAPER MAGAZINE The Artists Bringing Their Candid Vision to Queer Photography
VICE Impossible Photos of a Twin Sister Who Never Existed
GUP MAGAZINE Paper Edges
REFINERY29 Stunning Images from 29 Women We Admire
HUFFINGTON POST The Madness of Many
PHOTOBLOGRAPHER The Story About a Paper Cutout Twin
PDNedu Many Figures, One Voice
PDN The Curator
THE NEW YORK TIMES Fashions Newest Frontier
THE FASHION IMAGE by Thomas Werner
UNIQUE: MAKING PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE AGE OF UBIQUITY by Katherine Oktober Matthews