Jhanielle Brown

Documentary Photographer

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026–2027
Southern Survey Biennial II, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Growing Home: Where Memory Takes Root
October 3, 2026–February 14, 2027

DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS

2026–Present
Growing Home: Where Memory Takes Root
Photographer
Ongoing documentary project exploring Black women’s relationships with gardening, land, and memory across the American South.

2025–Present
Black Heritage Tree Project
Director of Visual Storytelling & Lead Photographer
Lead documentary photography and visual storytelling for a National Geographic-sponsored initiative documenting Black heritage trees in Houston, Tulsa, Galveston, and St. Croix.

SELECTED ASSIGNMENTS

2025
National Geographic Society
Photography documenting National Geographic Meridian Grant Explorers.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Photographs published in:
Defender Network
Forward Times
Galveston Daily News
St. Thomas Source
Virgin Islands Daily News

EDUCATION

2017
B.S., Chemical Engineering
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL