Taiye Godbody

'I’ve tried numerous times over the years to edit my 30 + year archive. I’ve worked with different editors, art directors and gallerists. I never thought to work with another photographer. Jesse was the first person who was able to crack the Mary Rozzi code.

With his refined eye, sense of style, and deep understanding of image-making, he was able to see something within the work that others missed. He found the through-line that made it all make sense.

Jesse has also given me a new point of view on who I am as an artist and photographer working between art and commerce. He was able to bridge those two worlds in my work without compartmentalizing me or putting me in a box.

I now feel a real a sense of clarity around my work and my vision, which is such a powerful gift and one I’m deeply grateful to Jesse for.'

Mary Rozzi

Jesse helped carve out an entirely new direction in my work—one that wasn’t apparent to me before our mentorship. Over the past five years, beginning when I worked alongside him as an on-set and studio assistant, he has taken the time to deeply understand where I was creatively and professionally, where I wanted to go, and how to help me get there. He layered his own perspective into my process in a way that strengthened the core of my work rather than reshaping it into something unfamiliar.

Beyond practical guidance, Jesse introduced more holistic ways of engaging with and analyzing my images, pushing me to think more critically and intentionally about what I was making and why. Our mentorship has been ongoing, detailed, and deeply collaborative, and it has played a significant role in solidifying my place within the commercial and editorial industry.

Jesse has become a trusted confidant—someone I bring into projects at every stage—and his insight is consistently thoughtful, incisive, and clarifying. His mentorship has meant more to me than I can easily put into words.

Adam Riding

James Dimmock

Working with Jesse gave me a completely new perspective on my own work. He approached my archive with an incredible level of care and attention, digging through more than 15 years of images to uncover selects and sequences I never would have considered myself. The connections he made between photographs revealed patterns, themes, and relationships in the work that I hadn’t fully recognized before.

What impressed me most was how thoughtful and intentional his process was. His pairings and sequencing genuinely reframed the way I see my portfolio, helping me better understand the throughline in my work and how the images can speak to one another. The experience felt less like a standard portfolio review and more like a deeper creative collaboration.

Justin Bettman

Sarah McColgan

Working with Jesse came at a time when my career needed his eye and discipline the most.

As an artist, specifically as a photographer, you see your own work through a lens of your personal gaze and emotion. It can become muddled.

Having Jesse take a view of your collective archive, via the perspective of critique and curation (specifically through the gaze of another photographer) takes your art and archive to a place of clarity that was not obvious before.

Given the opportunity to have Jesse work my archive with such depth and care, has forced me to see my own work in a way that has shifted my own thought and will undoubtedly help my career. I am so profoundly grateful.

Blaire Catherine Hawes

“When I came to Jesse, I felt like I had a disjointed body of work that couldn’t live in a single portfolio. He was able to help me see the through line and give me a language for what had been intrinsic in my work all along: whimsical, playful, humorous, human.

Having someone with a depth of industry knowledge and a trained eye for imagery take a deep dive into my work really changed how I look at a photograph. After working with Jesse, I not only see my own work differently, but I see every image a little differently. “