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Jesse Lenz

Jesse Lenz Interview
About Jesse Lenz

Jesse Lenz (1988, Montana) is a self-taught photographer and multidisciplinary artist. He works with analog cameras, processing and printing from black-and-white negatives in his darkroom. His forthcoming book 'The Locusts' will be published by Nazraeli Press in 2020. As an illustrator he has created images for the most well-respected publications around the world, including TIME, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and many others. He is the founder and director of Charcoal Book Club and the Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review. From 2011-2018 he also co-founded and published The Collective Quarterly and The Coyote Journal. He lives on a farm in rural Ohio.

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