Jessica Antola was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Her photography career began during her years living in Paris, where she shot portraits, fashion, interiors and global travel stories for a wide range of advertising and editorial clients. Antola’s travels have always informed and inspired her work – from West Papua to Antarctica, from Tibet to Myanmar, and finally Sub-Saharan Africa, the focus of her monograph, Circadian Landscape (Damiani, Spring 2018). The book chronicles the people and places Antola encountered while traveling through Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivorie, Ghana, Togo, Senegal and Ethiopia between 2011 and 2014. Antola’s work has been the subject of solo and group exhibitions internationally, and has been recognized by numerous honors including PDN’s 30 in 2004, American Photography, PDN Photo Annual, The Art Directors Club, The Exposure Awards, International Photography Awards and Prix de la Photographie. She holds degrees in fine art and photography from Cornell University and the Art Center College of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
