Location
LA & SF. Available for assignments worldwide.
Agent
B&A
Kyle Lohr
kyle@ba-reps.com
Licensing
Trunk Archive
@choutoo
Jessica is a photographer based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Her images transcend the moment with uncomplicated elegance, allowing their subtleties to reveal the character and story of the subject.
With a background in history and photojournalism, Jessica’s process is a balance of observation and contemplation. She develops a contextual understanding of her subjects before each shoot, embracing references that reflect contemporary conversations around culture and identity.
Deliberate in her practice, Jessica creates honest, intimate images that rely on gestures, color, form, and composition to heighten the nuances of people and landscapes. She specializes in catching unexpected moments as her subjects collaborate with the space around them.
In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago and The San Francisco International Airport Museum.
Awards & Recognition
ASME Awards for Design, Photography and Illustration 2023 - Best Profile Photograph
https://www.asme.media/american-society-of-magazine-editors-announces-finalists-for-2023-national-magazine-awards
Aperture Portfolio Prize 2020 - Runner Up
https://aperture.org/editorial/2020-portfolio-prize-jessica-chou/
Exhibitions
Beautiful Diaspora / You Are Not The Lesser Part, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL) March - June 2022
First-Generation: China Dream and Suburban Chinatown, Kadish Gallery, SFO Museum (San Francisco, CA) Nov 2021 - May 2022
The Moon Represents My Heart, Museum of Chinese in America (New York, NY) May - Sept 2019
A Thousand Words, Tweed Museum of Art (Duluth, MN) May - Dec 2017
UNESCO Journeys to School, United Nations HQ, (New York, NY) March 2013
Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, Illinois)
Tweed Museum of Art (Duluth, Minnesota)
Books
Together We Rise: The Women's March, Published by Harper Collins, Jan 2018
Journeys to School, Published by UNESCO, July 2013
Press / Interviews
Museum of Contemporary Photography
https://vimeo.com/687971270
It’s Nice That
https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/jessica-chou-photography-180621
Adobe
https://business.adobe.com/summit/community/take-five/photography-tips.html
NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2021/05/12/987230404/if-hate-is-a-virus-there-is-no-vaccine-asian-photographers-spoke-out
The Luupe
https://theluupe.com/blog/2021/12/13/how-photographers-show-their-backdrops-to-subvert-the-studios-reality-and-artifice/
National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/photography/2020/06/mastering-zoom-photography-in-tough-time-june-12/
MUSÉE Magazine
https://museemagazine.com/features/2020/4/29/suburban-chinatown-jessica-chous-look-at-the-san-gabriel-valley
Aperture
https://aperture.org/blog/complexities-asian-american-photography/
The Photo Banter
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jessica-chou/id1315846850?i=1000495216744
The Luupe
https://theluupe.com/blog/2020/09/10/virtual-photoshoots-in-the-time-of-social-distance/
THE CANDID FRAME
http://www.ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/2019/6/16/the-candid-frame-472-jessica-chou
WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/23-amazing-female-photographers-you-should-know
PDN
https://www.pdnonline.com/photography-business/photo-clients/who-ive-hired-paloma-shutes-the-california-sunday-magazine/
The Heavy Collective
http://theheavycollective.com/2018/02/18/qa-jessica-chou/
Mull It Over
http://mullitover.cc/post/138989257738
Defining Culture
https://www.definingcultures.com/jessica-chou-interview-taiwanese-american-photographer/
Selected Client List
Marie Claire
TIME
The New York Times
The Sunday Times
Wall Street Journal
The Guardian
The Atlantic
Entertainment Weekly
Rolling Stone
Billboard
Glamour
WIRED
INC.
Fortune
Fast Company
Bloomberg Businessweek
Apple
Airbnb
ACLU
Census 2020
Amnesty International
UNESCO
L'Oréal Paris
Yves Saint Laurent