1.1 Biography
Jillian Adams | Jillian Adams Photography

Biography (1.1)

Jillian Adams

Jillian Adams is an anthropologist turned photographer, telling the stories of the wedding ritual between couples & families along the east coast. With a decade of experience and an educational background in anthropology & human rights, Jillian offers a uniquely mindful approach to wedding photography. Photographing the realm of life & love between the veil. For sincerity, soul, and human ritual. 

Jillian (b. 1998, nwfl) currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and their two dogs. Her work and life are inspired by travel, collecting antique furniture and oil paintings. Alongside photography, she enjoys working in hospitality and historic interior design projects.

1.2 Artist Statement

As a photographer, I’m always looking {with mind and body} for soulful scenes evident of the human experience. 

Couples that align with this style are looking for a different kind of wedding photographer; someone understated that photographs with empathy & sincerity, approaching their wedding with respect & elegance, not obtrusion, in order to gift them with truthful & nuanced printed memories of their wedding day, not memories of their wedding day being photographed.

Artist Statement (1.2)

My promise is to photograph wedding stories with artistry, empathy & intuition. 

Capturing the light sent from those that couldn’t be there

An approach as carefully crafted as your vows

As once in a lifetime as all your favorite people in the same place at the same time

Photos that sip like celebrating with that bottle of vintage, sound like the first time you heard her laugh, echo like stories around the table

Your wedding, photographed with space to breath

So that you can remember the moments that left you breathless

Gentle, quiet, still, peaceful, soothing 

All the noise hushed

Photography with a deeper reverence towards life, love, and weddings 

Proven trusted by couples

{poets, artists, film directors, florists, high school sweethearts}


And by their loved ones

{moms, planners, maids of honor, the most shy of flower girls, and enthusiastic uncles alike}. 

If this resonates, I can be reached at jillianadamsphotography@gmail.com, or via the contact form

1.3 Credentials

Education

Biological Anthropology, University of West Florida

Pensacola FL, 2021

Awards & Recognition

Viewer’s Choice Award

Obscura III Exhibit - Historic & Alternative Photography

The Emporium, Knoxville TN, 2023

Credentials (1.3)

Wedding Photography Features

Style Me Pretty


HOSPITALITY Photography Features

Michelin Guide

Garden & Gun

Country Living

Bourbon+

Southern Kitchen

1.4 Services

Weddings

Photojournalism of the modern wedding ritual

Family & Portraiture

Select availability for documentary-style family sessions

Photojournalism

Documentary coverage of events, hospitality, and human-centered stories

Services (1.4)

Contact