it's been roughly 4 years since i've seen my good friend Jenn Porreca and even longer since i photographed her. We both had no idea that we were living in Los Angeles until I ran into her at a gallery show last week.We linked up this past wednesday to shoot & talk about her 1st solo show in San Francisco.

Man i'm excited for her! She's beyond talented and it's crazy how we both have come such a long way since the early days in the bay area.

If your currently in the San Fran / Bay Area , you gotta go check this show out and show her love!

Love In Absentia

will be on exhibit from March 2 to April 15 at Luna Rienne Gallery,

3318 22nd Street near Valencia in San Francisco.

The opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 2, from 6PM until 9PM.

For further information, please contact Olivia Ongpin, olivia@lunarienne.com, or 415.647.5888.

Visit the gallery online here:

http://lunarienne.com

Find out more about Jenn Porreca here:

http://www.porrecastudio.com

Also check out the articles at

http://livefastmag.com

http://www.coolhunting.com

http://warholian.com

Thank you Jenn!

I tried my luck with Artists Wanted submissions about 2 years ago and didn't make the cut.

This time i'm hoping that will change!

I paid & submitted 15 images to www.artistswanted.org today and i hope that this time around i will at least win the people's choice if not the grand prize of living in New York rent free for 1 year. I really need everyones help on this one so if i could please get you guys to cast me a 5 star vote and email my artists wanted profile to friends & family to bring up my chances i would be one happy camper and forever greatful.

Even though i'm gonna,I really do hate sending out emails saying "vote for me! vote for me!" cause there are probably alot of you out there that aren't really feeling my work as much and that's fine but, i've been thinking about the east coast alot lately and how it might help my chances of becoming more noticed and help me land a job doing what i love so much. Bottom line is i need the masses on this one and i hope i can depend on a few of you to help JJC out.

The link for my profile where you can vote only once every 24hours is here

http://www.artistswanted.org/jjcphotography

at the bottom you'll see " rate this portfolio " and you can give it 1-5 stars depending on what you think i deserve.

please send the link to everyone you can and thank you soooo much

email me with questions @ jjcphotography@gmail.com

here are some slams from this past weekend in the city

thank you and enjoy

-j