Since Jessica Reiss started getting serious about her photography, she has been taken aback by the response. “I honestly never expected to sell anything! My shop has been open for a little under a year now. I have 100 sales, have had my work on several different blogs, a movie set and a TV show set. Never in my wildest dreams could I have expected to get this far all within a year!”
It’s not surprising. Her images are quiet and thoughtful, and have a lovely sense of realness about them; there is nothing pretentious or manipulated, just good compositions with a lean towards minimalism. Architecture, colour, symmetry and patterns are her loves, and the details that are found in the everyday.
jessica reiss – church door – new zealand
jessica reiss – windows – sydney
jessica reiss – flatiron
Jessica already has a full time career as a pediatric speech language pathologist, so photography is just a hobby for her. She had long been interested, but only ever had a ‘point-and-shoot’, and it wasn’t until her husband gave her a camera for her birthday a few years back that she became more focused on collecting images. Her husband also become more interested and started taking pictures too, and even though they now have a second camera, they still share lenses.
“My husband and I would go on long walks around our neighborhood and take pictures all of the time. I would post some of them on social network sites and share them with my family. Everyone kept saying how they loved my pictures, and that I should try to sell them. So, I decided to give it a try. I originally opened an Etsy shop in 2011 when I first got my camera, but quickly realized that I did not have the time to commit to it. Then, in February of 2013, I decided that I would try it again and put in the time and effort.”
jessica reiss – chairs – NYC restaurant
jessica reiss – hikers on a mountain – Edinburgh
jessica reiss – blue mountains – australia
jessica reiss – vineyard – new zealand
Now Jessica takes the camera everywhere with her, and had a fabulous time on their trip to Australia and New Zealand during their honeymoon last year. The colours and textures are perfectly evocative of what it’s really like here.
I for one am looking forward to seeing what else she find during her travels.
jessica reiss – windows – melbourne
You can find more of Jessica’s photography in her Etsy shop, jessicareisspix, and on her Facebook page, JessicaReissPhotography.
Thank you so much Julie!
Absolute pleasure! Thanks for sharing your beautiful work 🙂