ABOUT
Jenn Whitney is a photojournalist, founder, creative entrepreneur, & teacher.
In a world that is drowning in information while starving for wisdom, Jenn tells the stories of the most vulnerable and the most devoted. Her images not only shed light on hard to reach people and places and complex social issues, but also magnify the mission of nonprofits, healers, artists, and disrupters moving humanity and our planet towards solutions and regeneration.
Years of studying movement, meditation, and ceremonial arts bring a unique sensitivity and intimacy to her vision. Jenn sees beyond the surface with subtlety, travels gracefully between worlds, and reveals truth and humanness. She brings authenticity and compassion to each moment, weaving her healing work into a pioneering approach to visual storytelling with fierce discernment about stories that matter.
Learning to cook from her Southern grandma as a child sparked a lived experience of food as medicine, and was a natural segway into documenting farm to table cuisine. Many years making a living waiting tables in cutting edge restaurants cultivated her passion for artisan food and regenerative agriculture. Telling the stories of local heroes who grow, raise, and catch our nourishment, as well as the culture and community around food of all kinds brings her great joy.
A fourth generation Floridian and adopted Texan, she’s now based in California's Eastern Sierra where the golden light never ceases to inspire. She’s worn bifocals since she was two and loves monster trucks, salvaged denim and small batch sundresses, green vegetables, and the great outdoors.
Jenn's current project, River Queen Provisionsis an ideal expression of her long time passion for modernizing vintage spaces with functional, collected interior design and sustainable living. In 2021, she founded River Queen Holdings Opportunity Zone Fund to foster economic, agricultural, culinary, creative, and environmental regeneration in her remote rural region. The fund's first project is to restore the historic Ben Franklin building in the center of Bishop's Main St. arts district to house a modern general store, farm to table cafe, community event space, and guest rooms.
She also teaches kundalini yoga & meditation workshops in Bishop and virtually regularly.
Jenn spends as much time as possible off grid on the backroads swimming, hiking, rock hounding, and star gazing. She’s currently obsessed with textiles and learning to weave and quilt, target shooting, chasing the universal sound, and snuggling with her goldendoodle puppy, Hawk. Wherever she goes, she lives in devotion to kindness & service, elaborate salads & Texas-style nachos, finding beauty amidst grit, and honoring mother earth.
Honored by NPPA, Texas APME, MO Press Assoc, American Sociological Assoc, Mental Health America, MPW 62, Eddie Adams Workshop XXI
MA journalism University of Missouri, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, BFA photography and BA American studies University of Colorado Boulder.
SELECT CLIENTS
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
ProPublica
Texas Tribune
Saveur
National Geographic Traveler
Education Week
Chronicle of Higher Education
Cooking Channel
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Nature Conservancy
AARP
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Eater National
ReWeave LA
RaMa Institute
Dallas Morning News
San Antonio Express-News
San Antonio Magazine
The Pearl
Giles Parscale
Giant Noise
The Texas Observer
Slow Food South Texas
Martinez Street Women’s Center
PUBLISHED IN
The New Yorker
Newsweek
The Atlantic
National Geographic
LA Times
Washington Post
