About Rachel

Rachel Jessen is a documentary photographer telling feminist stories about power, identity, and women’s lives. She has exhibited her work widely locally, nationally, and internationally in venues such as the Griffin Museum (Winchester, MA), Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (Milwaukee, WI), PH21 Gallery (Budapest, Hungary), Filter Photo (Chicago, IL), Les Inattendus Film Festival (Lyon, France), and Duke University (Durham, NC), where she has presented three solo exhibitions. Her editorial and commercial work has been published extensively in The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, NBC News, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Buzzfeed News, Financial Times, Insider, Bloomberg News, and Reuters, among many others. Rachel is also an educator who has taught multiple levels of photography at the undergraduate level; she is currently teaching at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She can be reached by email at rachjessen@gmail.com and by phone at 319.329.4314—she'd love to work for/collaborate with you. Feel free to follow her on Instagram @rcjessen.