Introducing myself and my journal: Jesse Mojica Photography:

About Me:
\"There are those moments in life when you realize the dream you have been chasing so long is finally becoming a reality. It is a pretty incredible feeling, that moment. This happens every time I open up my most current project for editing and spend hours enhancing the natural beauty of my subjects or places. I feel pretty blessed these days, as I trek across Mother Earth in search of her hidden beauties, and person after person is willing to open up their souls to me so I can honor their presence with the click of a button.\"

\"there comes a point when you look at yourself and you wonder what the hell you are doing and where you are going....you get scared....you start to swerve. AND THEN. you take a deep breath. you know the way just keep your head up and keep putting one foot in front of the other. your dream is just ahead.\"

I was raised to know I could do anything I put my head and heart into. I was raised to be a strong confident woman. I was raised to hold my head high, respect what my family had given me, and to go into the world knowing that I had it better than many. These days I am finding myself along the path where it seemed like I blinked and 5 years flew by. But regardless of how lost I feel some days and not so much the others...I do what I do to make my parents proud. They sacrificed so much for my dreams and I want nothing more than to show them the beauty that came from their amazing parenting. I owe them the world.

Jesse Mojica graduated from Portland State University and is a professional photographer and graphic designer. Her love for non-profits and NGOS began in the summer of 2010, when she interned for These Numbers Have Faces; a Portland/Cape Town based NPO that empowers the youth of South Africa to reduce poverty in their own communities. Now she travels the world hoping to spread the goodwill of these organizations and document the hope they are fostering.
I shoot to capture beauty and expose the forgotten, I design to save the world, I travel to open my eyes, I teach to learn patience, I dream big, and then I sleep.

My Passions:
photography, print design, non profits, volunteering, community development, bikram yoga, vegan food

My Challenges:
Being present

My Vision for the Future:
To continue the work of sustainable community development, capture it with my lens, and share it with the world through a global conversation.

My Areas of Expertise:
photography, design, loving, learning, hoping, volunteering, traveling