Joe Jenkins, a Brooklyn-based photographer, shares his journey from making eyeglasses to capturing the essence of celebrities like Jeff Bezos, Reese Witherspoon, and Eli Manning. He recounts his unexpected entry into professional photography after narrowly avoiding a talent agency scam in 2013.
Reese Witherspoon and Team Docusign, Momentum ‘24 New York City at The Glasshouse – Joe Jenkins Photography
The two owners that I worked for were very nice, treated me well, and it was work I honestly enjoyed doing. I went in at 10am, stayed until 7pm, and thought about my work not once outside of those hours. For any self-employed person, especially one whose self-employment comes from photography, not thinking about work while not actively or technically at work is something akin to Nirvana/Eden/Bliss/Cheesecake/Etc.
As a person that could walk into a movie theater, buy a ticket, watch said movie, walk out, and buy another ticket to another movie immediately afterward, I’d always wondered what it would be like to be in one of those movies. Even if it meant being just some guy milling around in the background, the idea had always intrigued me, so I responded to the ad and showed up at a talent agency somewhere over on 8th Avenue a few days later.
He said ‘Joe’ very breathily to confirm who I was and while doing so I could sort of see him eagerly leaning forward into the telephone with each passing sentence as he tried to suck up bits of me through the receiver. He asked me a few more questions to further confirm who I was and after the fifth or so seemed to satisfy him completely switched gears and thereafter took on more of an infomercial host persona.
As Tom unraveled his pitch he began talking about how his agency was working a lot with Kevin Bacon. And Liam Neeson. And then he dropped a few more famous names as I sat quietly on the other end of the line.
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