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Jessica van der Weert is a British photographer working across portraiture, music culture, and constructed narrative imagery. Her practice is defined by cinematic colour, precise composition, and a focus on human presence within carefully considered environments. Moving between fine art and documentary approaches, she builds images that balance observation with visual construction.

She began working professionally in London as a teenager, developing an early, disciplined approach to image-making shaped by film-based photography. She later studied at the London College of Fashion and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, before assisting the British photographer Nick Knight.

Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK and Europe and is held in the collections of the Rijksmuseum and the Royal College of Physicians.

Van der Weert is particularly known for her portrait work within music and contemporary culture, having photographed many leading figures across British and international cultural life. Her images move beyond likeness to explore presence, character, and atmosphere, reflecting an ongoing interest in how identity is constructed and performed within public and private contexts.

Major bodies of work include SELFLESS, documenting NHS workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; FlipSide, a portrait series exploring the off-stage lives of electronic music artists; and Physicians for Africa, produced in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians, documenting medical professionals across Uganda.

Her work continues to explore photography as a space where reality and construction meet — using image-making as a form of storytelling, observation, and connection.