TIMELESS BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY OF
YOUR PREGNANCY OR FAMILY

*“I wasn’t going to have maternity photographs taken until I saw your work.” Katharine, July 2024*
*I always leave your studio thinking, 'Oh my God,' because the kids are so wild, yet every time the images are amazing. You’re incredible—I don’t worry anymore!” Sommer, 2023*
Established 2001

JENNIFER’S RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear Clients & Friends,

As I step into retirement from photography after more than 40 years behind the camera, I find myself filled with immense gratitude. Since 1992, you trusted me with the most intimate, joyful, painful, and transformative moments of your lives. That trust has been the greatest honor of my career.

The photographs we made together will live on well beyond my lifetime, and knowing that I was able to make a small difference in the world by challenging society's definition of beauty and showing the pregnant female form as beautiful has fulfilled my life. Also, you allowing me to witness and capture your changing bodies as well as trusting me to capture your children as they grow up, has been such an honor. Your love for each other and your stories. I believe deeply that we each must find our passion and use it to create positive change. Photography was mine.

This career gave me more than I could have ever imagined: a book, coverage by national publications, television features, and the privilege of helping usher this genre into the mainstream. But far more than these accolades, my work gave me community. So many of you shaped my life in ways large and small, from becoming a parent with your support, to the books I read, the shoes I bought, the conversations that carried me through hard seasons. My studio became sacred ground—where stories were shared, held with care, and never carried beyond its walls.
Today, I write this as the wind moves through the fir trees on my small island near Seattle—surrounded by an orchard, six chickens, a couple of dogs, one feral cat, and a thriving son. My life is full in a new way.

While I’m closing the chapter of my professional life, I will continue working with photographs. My photo organizing business, started in 2018, allows me the connection with clients that I love, as well as being able to make a difference in their lives. Helping families preserve, protect, and pass down the images and stories of their families that are attached to these images keeps me working in a profession I love. Photographs are everything. They capture relationships and connections and remind us of the love we have. Photographs help us heal and help us preserve our legacy for generations.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for a life richly lived. I carry your stories with me always. I will have the same email, so please reach out from time to time.

With profound gratitude,
Jennifer

Please note: If you have an outstanding session already paid for, I will be honoring that session. Please reach out to get on the calendar.

My archive of images will still be active as well, so if you would like to order prints or albums from a previous session, you can still do so.

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CAPTURE THESE SPECIAL MOMENTS IN BLACK AND WHITE TIMELESS MATERNITY PHOTOGRAPHY & FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHY

“The days are long, but the years are short.” Jennifer Loomis

With more than 25 years of experience, Jennifer has learned how to paint with light and composition to capture moments and feelings that create compelling photographs of you and your family.

You deserve to have these special moments of your and your family’s lives captured and preserved for you to enjoy for many years to come. Jennifer believes in the importance of photography and the value of photographs, which is why she not only offers a photography session, but high-quality printing and framing services as well.

The photographs you end up hanging on your wall are not just for you to enjoy now, but will outlive you and serve as lifetime reminders to your children of how much you love and cherish them.

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MEET THE FOUNDER OF THE GENRE OF STUDIO MATERNITY PHOTOGRAPHY

Jennifer Loomis has been a Fine Art Maternity and Family Photographer since 2001, and was known as the pioneer in Maternity Photography. She has photographed over 4,000 women and their families including celebrities, sports stars and musicians who won’t be named out of respect for privacy for her clients.

Over the past 22 years, Jennifer has been gifted VIP passes to major music events, been flown in private jets, photographed in elite condos with security guards watching her every move, and had a bomb sniffing dog sniff her car for explosives as she’s pulled up for a photo shoot. So many stories, but she is still as down to earth and friendly as when she started.

As a life long artist with a Master’s in Photojournalism, Jennifer is able to capture the small, precious, subtle and fleeting moments that make life special. Jennifer loves people and learning their stories, and weaves that into her photography alongside her energy and passion for creating art. She has always loved kids and became a mother herself at 46.

View her full Resume and Exhibitions & Bibliography.

Fun facts (to see if anyone reads this website): Jen has been shot at while photographing in Kenya; She knows the former Prime Minister of Mongolia; She is allergic to dairy; She trained to be a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher; Her favorite color is green: She loves cats; She meditates every day.

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