Jessica Clark - Photography That Captures Love, Life, and Work

I like art and design, very expensive things, very trashy television, and I never meant to become a photographer.

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A person, Jessica Clarke, with long blonde hair wearing glasses with dark frames and a light-colored jacket, facing slightly to the side, with a shadow cast on the white background.
A couple dressed in formal attire, the woman in a red gown and the man in a tuxedo, holding hands in a bright kitchen.

From Weddings to Portraits to Commercial Projects, Jessica Brings Stories to Life

At the core of my photography is the ability to help people feel at ease in front of the camera.

My confident and empathetic approach balances candour with intention to create images that feel spontaneous and alive yet refined with thoughtful direction.

It’s a process that not only results in beautiful photographs, but also allows you to feel present, comfortable, and fully yourself.

The confidence you see in my photographs is borne from a joyful individuality - I help you relax in front of the camera so you can be yourself.

That’s what makes my images as diverse as the people you see featured in them.

What’s my style?

💁‍♀️ Yeah

💁‍♀️ YEAH to photos that represent life in true and vivid full colour
💁‍♀️ YEAH to enjoying the heck outta the big wedding/project/shoot you’ve spent years/months/weeks planning
💁‍♀️ YEAH to capturing your beautiful smiling face while we have a bloody good time together

🙅‍♀️ Nope

🙅‍♀️ NOPE to faded over-processed editing.
🙅‍♀️ NOPE to spending hours-on-end away from your guests for the sake of photos
🙅‍♀️ NOPE to faux romance, cheesy and prescriptive posing, and cringe fads

More About Me

  • Born in Adelaide, South Australia in the late 1980s. I was into dancing and singing and drama as a kid (no shit right?). My parents moved around a lot so I got really good at making friends quickly and adapting to new and unfamiliar situations.

    A true Leo - my hair is my best feature. I originally got into star signs because I enjoyed how much it annoyed my husband. We’ve been married 16 years now and I still think he’s pretty cute. He’s my bestie. Together we share a life with two kids, a dog, a cat, lots of inside jokes, and a lot of debt. We out here just trying to live our best suburban life, and I couldn’t imagine doing this thing with anyone else.

    I like art + design, very expensive things, very trashy television, and I never meant to become a photographer.

    I wanted to be a famous actress, the manager of a McDonald’s, an english teacher or a pop star. I went to teacher’s college, business and art school. I loved taking photos for fun: documenting my friends and travels around the world.

    I had a blog in the early naughties (along with every other millenial) - which will absolutely never see the light of day lest I cringe myself to death. In 2011 Instagram featured me as a suggested user. All of a sudden lots of people wanted me to take pictures for them too. Absolutely against the idea at first, eventually, I acquiesced. I am so glad I did!

  • 2011 - featured throughout the year by Instagram as a suggested user

    2015 - won the SALA Young Artist of the Year Award, and attended a fancy dinner with the Governor

    2015 - Commbank sent me all over the great state of SA to shoot the month-long Australian of the Day campaign leading to Paolo Sebastian’s 2016 Young Australian of the Year award

    2017 - Photographed a piece for SBS that took out The Migration Council of Australia’s award for Excellence in Journalism (and got to attend a very fancy ceremony at Parliament House)

    2018 - Photographed the major campaign for the Adelaide Film Festival

    2019 - Commissioned to photograph the South Australian Firefighters’ Calendar

    2019 and 2023 - Photographed the Adelaide Central Market’s ‘Our Market’ campaign

    2024 - Super-Duper Creative ad agency signed me on to shoot the new outdoor campaign: PAE People Made for Port Adelaide Enfield Council

    2025 - Shot PolArt’s 2025 Polish Art and Culture festival campaign imagery

    I’ve had some fun clients like Optus, SA Department for Education, SA Health, SA Dental, Adelaide City Council, Renewal SA, Shaw + Smith, been published in SA's CityMag and the Adelaide Review (rip), The UK's Financial Times, SBS, Australian Women's Weekly, and have photographed hundreds of gorgeous weddings and beautiful families.

    My photos have been featured in places all over the world; on giant billboards, tram wraps, bus stops, hoarding around residential developments, magazines, stakeholder reports, websites AND (for what I’m most proud) framed on the mantlepieces and stuck on the refrigerators of hundreds of proud parents and grandparents all over Australia.

    You can see a very small selection of my commercial photography work here.

Just quietly, I feel I might be inching closer to surpassing my existing life highlight – that time I won an enormous cardboard cut-out of Big Bird in a colouring-in competition when I was eight.