Jasemine Denise Photography

The pictorial monologue of a published portrait photographer who stopped taking pictures and started telling stories.... I work with models, moms, marriages, and mature individuals with creative minds. I do travel both nationally and internationally. chicago based portrait photographer booking info: [email protected] Become a Patron!

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Photographing @chrisisgood2drive around the skate park.

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"I Come to You With Shaky Hands"

I spent the last week in hell, a spiritual prison created by care. I haven't written something so personal in a while... but because I couldn't outwardly talk about this experience, I shared it with my Patreon Patrons.. This is a very true story. One I may never tell to fullness again. I lost a lot of friends this week. Some close, some who were just fans of my work. I may never get those friendships back or find the energy to replace them.. I will however never forget my near death experience in Brooklyn New York. It sets the tone for my determination to continue to pay good people to do what they love for the rest of my life. Pledge and read the story. It's available regardless of the tier. I document a lot of stories about this journey there, because I know it is a safe space to open up about it.

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Being black is a super power. Immensely slept on. I speak my passion with the volume of my ancestors. Black women are either portrayed as weak victims or angry antagonists and neither of those are right. Being a black woman is a 📷flex 📷 because everything you touch your fingers to turns gold. You were born in a world filled with both hatred and admiration for who you are. You can walk straight into a room and intimidate everyone in it. Yet so many of us devote our lives to the good of our people, the betterment of the world, the progress of what we believe in.

Being a black woman is a gift, not just to us but to the world because without that influence, fashion would’ve been bland. Without that nurturing, parents wouldn’t know how to raise their kids. Without that devotion, great men would’ve struggled.

So the next time you think to talk down on a black woman or tell her what she should and shouldn’t do with her body, her narrative, her voice, her being.. remember, a super hero can turn into a super villain real quick. So behave, give praise, and stand for black women every day because the QUEEN said so. 📷 don’t wait and let us become another hashtag before you show us love.

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The beautiful and incomparable @lovelylavenderchild.

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@ayomparker has entered the chat. stunning, strong, sensual, sultry and self-assured-- this author is set up to release their first novel next year.

When I say, I'm screaming at the top of my lungs for how these turned out.. SHEESH. PS: Who doesn't need more erotica writing in their life? Hit that follow button and watch her journey. (c) @jaseminedenisephotography

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH.⁠ It took me a long time to write this out because I wanted it to be genuine, not performative. People are using this month to profit off others' truths and I didn't want to contribute to that. This is not an ad, but I'm going to pay and boost it becuase it's worth being seen.⁠ ⁠ This is Erin and Jeannetta Adams, one of my first "gay marriage" weddings. I was confused when people would peruse through my portfolio, see this beautiful wedding and refuse to book me. Erin and Jeannetta have one of my favorite wedding stories ever told. The reception was south side lit, the wedding was traditional beautiful and these two beings combined everything I loved about myself. Their wedding colors were red and purple, I learned Erin loved Prince and Jeannetta was the spiritual protective type with a look that can kill. ⁠ ⁠ They are perfect. And the idea that two perfect people would ever fall in love and find forever is a truth that society has a hard time accepting. Pride is the time that people want to fake ally but refuse to acknowledge the proud, brave, people who lead comfortable normal lives because it's too hard to look at them and envision a time when it was "UNLAWFUL" for them to be wed because societal fear. Imagine celebrating PRIDE and not being PROUD of two beautiful SUCCESSFUL BLACK WOMEN who married each other and combined two beautiful black families together to make one. ''⁠ ⁠ I was NEVER your AVERAGE photographer and I like it that way. How else would I have been blessed to get moments like these.

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2020 headshots | @jaseminedenisephotography

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Recently spent some time in Texas with my family after getting fully vaccinated. It had been nearly two years since I seen them. I still can't party with them lmao. I'm getting old.

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POV: Record Hunting.⁠ You're in your fourth record store to date, flipping through old vinyl albums from the eighties. You come up on this album. What are you doing? This photo took about five layers in photoshop but I envisioned being on the cover of a record in my head and this is what was born of it. ⁠ .⁠ .⁠ Lately, life has been hitting a series of lows. I had to reschedule a city on tour, I got my money stolen, and I essentially got knocked out by fatigue. In those moments, I struggled feeling like I was in a losing battle with the demons of my anxiety and my fear that everyone's gonna see the truth-- that I could potentially fail.⁠ .⁠ .⁠ I was in the height of those thoughts when I created this image. I just kept thinking about how before I wanted to be a photographer, I wanted to be a musician. While I could sing, I couldn't play instruments or write music but when I became a photographer, I embraced the rockstar lifestyle. Traveling, partying, and creating.. There comes a time in every rockstar's life where they have to find balance between creating and conquering demons.. Being able to make myself into an 80s Vinyl, shrink wrapped to perfection reminded me that I am the cultivator of who I am. I'm a limited edition LP record that is waiting for your consumption.

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Okay one more, one more!! Chen playing my life as an absolute beauty!!!

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Dark fashion, scantily clad.. this must be THE LADIES OF HADES!! Based off a Sugarbones illustration, my submission for Black Fae Day is a demon roller skater in the fantasy world inside of my head!

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Baby Shower Decor done by MoCreativeEvents photographed by @jaseminedenisephotography

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Photos won't do it justice. Words I say, won't do it justice. "People love you when they're on your mind.. A thought is love's currency."

There's a poster of my own face in my house. I shot this on my 29th birthday-- two years of searching for solace and comfort in the fact that I will always share my birthday with the death of my favorite artist.

I got this table from thrift and carried it all the way home. I timidly set up the space, took all my clothes off, and in that moment felt like a true artist.

Nothing NOTHING I do, say, or feel can sum up the way it feels to look up and see myself in a picture with Mac Miller, as it this is the closest I'll ever get. That's okay with me. This moment embodies the feeling of transitioning from a fan to an artist.

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"Tell me, tell me I'm the worst. Make you cry and make you hurt. I'm the queen bow down to me, I will leave you out to bleed."

, because shit got a little too heavy in a writing session this morning and I had to come out with a laugh. I wrote a long description about this project on my model pageJasemine Denise

This was such a strange, fun project to piece together. Like the "Manic" one it was inspired by music but I tabled it because I was like "Why did I do my own makeup for this?"

Anyway, here it is. The 📷 Queen of Broken Hearts.

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"Cause I know you've hurt in the past, but if you want it here's my heart.. No strings attached."

I've been dying to do a puppet theme this whole time, but I wanted specifically to be a marionette you could buy in stores xD. This project has been rattling in my brain for a while now. I was a huge fan of the visuals on the album No Strings Attached by *Nsync. The first song I ever got in trouble for learning all the words to was Lady Marmalade.. you know. "Gitchy Gitch ya ya lady gaga" or whatever Christina was trying to say before P!NK said "Hey, I'll take that solo!" (That's actually the second song. The first was definitely "I will Show You Mine" by LFO.)

I promised myself after Watching Movies With The Sound Off, I'd do more music inspired pieces. It's been my goal to make a sort of Circus series, so here's my first little pitch toward it.

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These twin cuties redid their baby pictures as a birthday shoot and honestly, it was the cutest thing!

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Got to photograph @ushikogarcia this past weekend to celebrate her birthday!!