About Jake Garn

The Photographer

“Specializing in whimsical fashion.  I love color, I love crazy, I love beauty, I love a dash of humor in my images and I love my wife, son, dogs and cat… not necessarily in that order,” -Jake Garn

Jake has been filled with an insatiable need to create for as long as he can remember, whether it was a drawing, building a fort, or even writing stand-up comedy. The photography bug was planted in the mid-nineties during a simple Introduction to Photography course.  The dark room, the camera, the chemicals all screamed out with possibilities and the next year when Layton High School added a computer lab, complete with the extraordinarily advanced Adobe Photoshop (version 2.5) a long term love-affair was set.  As photography meandered it’s way into the digital age the format became increasingly custom-tailored to Jake’s love of instant gratification and attention-deficit tendencies.

Though Jake takes photography quite seriously it is just a part-time gig, he also is a marketing consultant and is a part-owner/operator of Corbin’s Grille, an award winning steak and seafood restaurant in Layton Utah.

Purchasing his first digital SLR camera in 2002 began the transformation of photography from a casual hobby into a bit of an obsession.

Inspiration includes Mona Lisa, American Gothic, Van Gogh, Picasso, Michaelangelo’s David, Stéfan Bourson, Richard Avedon (his crazier stuff), Matthew Cooke, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Mark Seliger, Patrick Demarchelier, Gerald Bybee and of course, above all of them my beautiful wife Jennifer – my sounding board and chief advice-giver!

A Few Accolades and Credits

• 2011 Nomination (3), Honorable Mention (1) — International Color Awards
• 2010 Published — September — BlackBook Magazine
• 2010 Marker Bindings, Steezy Marie National Ad Campaign
• 2010 Project Runway (photography shown in Season 8, Episode 1)
• 2010 What’s Next Awards, Styling by Steven Robertson. New York
• 2010 Solo Gallery Show, (a)perture gallery, Salt Lake City
• 2010 Gallery Show, The Hive Gallery, Salt Lake City
• 2010 ScottUSA, Winter Catalog
• 2009 Nominated — Iconique Societás Award
• 2009 Featured http://www.notcot.org/post/20741/?action=search
• 2009 Featured http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-fashion-photos-jake-garn
• 2009 Published — Fall — Cut & Dry Magazine
• 2009 Honorable Mention — PX3 Awards — France
• 2009 Published –  May — The Colorist — USA
• 2008 Published — November — Photo Ideas Magazine — Asia — 20 image spread
• 2007 Second Place  — PX3 Awards — France
• 2007 Nominated — International Color Awards

About

The Creative Team

Paula Dahlberg and Steven Robertson are the ubiquitous creative geniuses involved in most of the over-the-top concepts featured on my page. Frequent contributions also come from Keith Bryce, McKell Maddox, Janae Mechling, Michelle Boucher and several others.

Ryan Muirhead my always helpful and forever bubbly photo assistant.

And of course all the lovely models, of which a surprising number are not professional models at all, simply ordinary girls with extraordinary beauty.

Sterling Okura of bizlift, the technical guru behind my website and also responsible for search engine optimization.  Hire him, he’s amazing!

And last but not least my mother and father, without whom none of this would be possible. Not only did they buy me my first camera for my 17th birthday but they also raised me to believe that anything is possible.