Me.

Hi. I’m Jarod.

I don’t like writing about myself in the third person.

I’m not your vintage-inspired, insta-filtered photographer friend who goes hiking every weekend. But I do own some flannel shirts.

I don’t think the Fisher Price camera I used as a kid has anything to do with me becoming a photographer.

I don’t hashtag. I mean, except when I do.

I don’t care about curating my brand. Or if that’s even how those words go together.

I like bold colors. I like people to laugh hysterically. I like people to look introspective. I like when people look just slightly to the left.

“Oh, uh, my left.”

I like weird photos. I like clean photos with straight lines. I don’t have anything against centered compositions. (Clearly.)

I live in Phoenix. I think it’s neat. (Even if it is a terribly impractical place to inhabit.)

I have some awards and accolades and clients. But, like, who the fuck cares?

I think I’m terribly awkward, but nobody believes me.

I don’t have a strong opinion about pineapple on pizza. It’s fine.

I’m not quite sure how to use paragraphs.

I obsessed over this stupid profile, but I don’t want you to think I did.

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Last month I pretended I wasn’t claustrophobic so I could go underground with ASU researcher Marianne Moore as she surveyed a bat population. Shout out to @lananita84 for inviting me along to work with her on this.
Outtake from the science of awe story.
Papago Park for a story about the science of awe.
Lackner (previous photo) pioneered direct air capture, using what looks like artificial trees, to remove carbon dioxide from the air. These artificial trees are 1,000 times more efficient than real trees in reducing carbon emissions. (I don’t shoot a lot of “stuff” photos, so this was a fun opportunity to try something outside my wheelhouse.)
Some work finally published! Klaus Lackner is a researcher at ASU pioneering carbon capture. Here, he peers through the small greenhouse that he feeds carbon dioxide from his prototype materials that have captured CO2 from the air. (The lighting appears pink, as green light isn’t utilized in photosynthesis, so why waste the energy producing it?)
Today I’m 32.
She’s been putting up with my shit for 3 years, tomorrow.
Portraits of some of my fellow AZLOEPers. I’m a bad photographer. I don’t feel like sticking to a style. I get quickly exhausted with my own work and so I try something different. Then I get tired of it, try something different, repeat infinitely. If my work looks like it was shot by 20 different people, well, yeah. Okay. I guess I’d rather be evolving than be marketable? I’m curious how everyone else stays motivated about their own work.