Jessica Fern Facette Photography

Naturally quiet and sentimental, Jessica Fern Facette, a commercial and wedding photographer, has been behind a camera, unobtrusively documenting her life since she was a child. Her initial exposure to photography came from old family photos and her dad who gave her his old school, 35mm Pentax ME Super camera in junior high. An accordion player and weaver, Jessica sees the intrinsic, emotional value of the past, of history. “Once those images are made, I feel like they just have more value the further away from that moment that you get," she says.

Nostalgic at heart, since she was a child, Jessica has loved looking at photos of her grandmother, who she never met, “I love just trying to piece together in my imagination what kind of person she was, based on all these photographs of her," she says. "It’s such a great thing to have within your family, photos of your loved ones being themselves, being natural.” From valuing family photos, to creating photograms in her high school’s darkroom, to taking and developing photos of her friends, photography was the only career choice that made any sense to Jessica.