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Photographer Jahse combines expertise in lighting, digital technology, and painting to create photographs. Drawing inspiration from many facets of our modern world, he studies fine art, fashion, design, advertising, street art, and gallery scenes. His creative process is centered around working with people, collaborating, and dream sharing. Sharing is the goal of his work; communicating various ideas, desires, hopes, fears, and truths with his subjects in an effort to build community in the process of documentation. Some notable subjects include Rhianna, Harry Belafonte, Hugh Masekela, QTip, Sweet Honey In The Rock, Roy Ayers, Judith Jamison, Abiodun Oyewole, Blitz Bazule, and Randy Weston.

Curatorial Statement:

Looking Both Ways: The Self-Conscious Gaze in Portraiture. These photographs live in the space where looking is shared. Looking Both Ways: The Self-Conscious Gaze in Portraiture presents a body of work by Jahse that moves fluidly between editorial and fashion-influenced portraiture, intimate studies of presence, and moments that feel observational or reflective. Across this range, the images resist singular interpretation. Meaning is not fixed by the photographer, but held open—shaped by the subject, the viewer, and the moment of encounter. That self-consciousness is the subject.

See more of Jahse’s work by visiting https://www.jahse.com/