Today we’d like to introduce you to Charnise Love Jones.
Hi Charnise Love, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
In 2016, during my senior year in College my father passed away from Cancer. I needed a creative outlet, so I took an intro filmmaking course that I loved. But It was too late for me to change majors. I had to create a Documentary about myself and from that moment, the process, time, tears, and self discovery I knew I wanted to tell people’s stories. Remembering back, I started taking pictures the summer of my freshman year in high school. I carried around my old Sony Cyber Shot DSC-S50 camera, I just felt the need to capture the ones I cared about. Thinking back to my younger years, my late grandfather was always taking pictures of my siblings and I. Back then I didn’t pay any attention to him doing it, but as I got older, I understood why he was always capturing moments of the family. He wanted to capture those special memories of us, so even after he passed we always could have moments to look back on. It was like him leaving his imprint on the present time, I will forever be grateful for that. He gifted us; well gifted me with these everlasting memories that I will never forget. Looking back at those moments allows me to be in that exact place even now as an adult. My freshman year in highschool, was foreshadowing moments to come of my senior year in college and now life. In 2014 my mother bought me my first professional Nikon D5200 camera, it was a beginners kit from Costco. I was so elated and was making grand plans on capturing my nephews and the family just like my grandfather did. Little did I know that was just my beginning of where I would be today. Having the camera I saw all the amazing things I could be, and where I could go and today I can say I’m proud of how far I’ve come. While capturing sports, & entertainment events, I was finessing my way into big concerts and shows as Love Jones Photography. I was ahead of my time, a young 20-year-old- something in these big spaces with my eyes wide open to all the opportunities I had with my Nikon LOL.