Jesse Lenz

Lenz was born in Montana in 1988.{{Cite web |last=MacLennan |first=Gloria Crespo |date=2021-01-07 |title=Instantáneas de la infancia y de la rebeldía |url=https://elpais.com/babelia/2021-01-06/ser-libre-es-poder-escapar.html |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=El País |language=es}} He was a co-founder and publisher of The Collective Quarterly and The Coyote Journal. He is the founder of monthly book club The Charcoal Book Club, its publishing arm Charcoal Press, and the Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review.{{Cite web |last=Quamme |first=Margaret |title=Wooster photographer's new book harvests Ohio's rural beauty |url=https://www.dispatch.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/12/20/wooster-photographers-new-book-harvests-ohios-rural-beauty/3906318001/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=The Columbus Dispatch |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title="The Locusts" by Photographer Lesse Lenz |url=https://www.booooooom.com/2020/12/01/the-locusts-by-photographer-lesse-lenz/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=BOOOOOOOM! |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Budrick |first=Callie |date=2020-11-05 |title=Fanning Out Over Photobooks |url=https://www.printmag.com/design-books/fanning-out-over-photobooks/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Print |language=en-US}}

After a few years of traveling through the US in an Airstream with his wife and three sons, Lenz settled on a farm in Ohio. His first book, The Locusts (2020), shows his children immersed in the rural setting, exploring their home and the wildlife that surrounds it.{{Cite web |last=Warner |first=Marigold |title=Jesse Lenz depicts childhood freedom and serenity amongst nature |url=https://www.1854.photography/2020/11/jesse-lenz-the-locusts/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=British Journal of Photography |language=en-GB}}{{Cite news |last=Stone |first=Mee-Lai |date=2020-12-09 |title='Magic was buried here': One family's escape to rural Ohio – in pictures |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/dec/09/magic-was-buried-here-one-familys-escape-to-rural-ohio-in-pictures |access-date=2024-04-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-28 |title=Perspective {{!}} Unplug, hit pause and go back to a place where life's possibilities are still raw, exciting and a little frightening in these photos |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2020/10/28/unplug-hit-pause-go-back-place-where-lifes-possibilities-are-still-raw-exciting-little-frightening-these-photos/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Washington Post |language=en}} It is made using black-and-white film.{{Cite web |title="Looking for grace in the wreckage of life": photographer Jesse Lenz discusses his debut monograph |url=https://hero-magazine.com//article/180085/the-locusts-jesse-lenz-photography |access-date=2024-04-24 |website=Hero |language=en}} A second volume, The Seraphim, was published in 2023. Made over four years, it continues to look through the lens of his now six children, at "the wonder of life and the rhythms of nature".{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Caroline |date=2024-03-15 |title=The Wonder and Danger of Nature |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/jesse-lenz-seraphim-nature-photography/677744/ |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-05-18 |title=The Flow of Future Memory - Review of "The Seraphim" by Jesse Lenz |url=https://readframes.com/the-flow-of-future-memory-review-of-the-seraphim-by-jesse-lenz/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Frames|language=en-US}}

• The Locusts. Charcoal, 2020. {{ISBN|978-0-578-67947-1}}.{{Cite web |first1=George|last1=Slade|title=Jesse Lenz: About Locusts and Other Lives on the Land |url=https://www.bandwmag.com/articles/jesse-lenz-about-locusts-and-other-lives-on-the-land |access-date=2024-04-22 |website=Black & White Magazine |language=en-us}}
• The Seraphim. Charcoal, 2023. {{ISBN|978-1-7362345-3-2}}.{{Cite web |title=Photographs by Jesse Lenz, from his book The Seraphim |url=https://harpers.org/gallery-posts/photographs-by-jesse-lenz-from-his-book-the-seraphim/ |website=Harper's Magazine}}

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• {{Official website|www.jesselenz.com}}

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