Hi, I’m Jean Marie!
I’m a natural light, lifestyle portrait photographer who loves capturing real life moments that will bring joy for decades to come.
I started Jemmie Photography all the way back in 2013, 13 years ago, with a tiny Nikon dslr and a lot of hope, and since then have shot hundreds of sessions of friends & families, maternity, births, newborns, couples, (a few incredible weddings out of state and the country), and every season of life of children growing up, getting married, and having babies of their own. It’s enough to make someone sentimental & romantic like me cry about it.
In 2015 I graduated from the New York Institute of Photography with my full photography certificate and upgraded a few times over the years in camera gear to where I am now, shooting full frame Nikon d750 and never going back. I love it so so much. My joy in photography is photographing you, fully in the beauty that makes you, you! That genuine, amazing, vibrant spark in you that no one else has, and creating the best images to remember that forever!
In 2018, I moved to China to work with special needs orphans, and it was one of the best things I’ll ever do in my lifetime. That was a pretty great year since when I got back, I met my husband online. Yes, we are *those people*. We dated long distance, fell in love, and got married in November of 2020 (yes a Covid wedding, let’s not do it again). We settled in the Jacksonville, FL area and made so many dear friends, then in March of 2022 we moved to Huntersville, NC and after nearly 4 beautiful years there, we have moved to live by my husband’s family in the Heartland of Omaha, Nebraska in February 2026.
We love Jesus and are so thankful He loves us. After years of infertility, we have had two beloved babies, our daughter Adeline is in Heaven and our joyful son Wells is here in our arms. I fell in love with weddings, birth & newborns far long before I had any of my own. Now that I’m a wife & mother and have been through hard high risk pregnancies & deliveries, it has made me all the more passionate about photography as a legacy! Time truly moves so fast!
It is all the more important to me to capture the highs & lows of new life, the mountains & valleys of motherhood, the tenderest little details of babyhood, all the things you’ve dreamed of and now get to hold in your arms in the art of photography. Through photos, you can cherish this moment in time for generations to come. If that’s also your love language, let’s connect & take some photos! It will be my honor to take them for you.
Gratefully – Jean Marie Dworak
Bottom photo by Lewis Walton