About Me

I’m Jen — a fine art photographer, vintage curator, and storyteller. My work lives at the intersection of memory and material: the dresses I rescue for my shop, Lee & Lillian’s, echo the same themes I’ve always explored through my camera — how clothing carries history, how an image or fabric can hold a life inside it. I’ve been collecting vintage for over fifteen years, and what began as costumes for the stage and props for photo shoots has slowly unfolded into an intentional capsule-based shop.

Alongside this work, I write about my past: I was raised in the Unification Church and came of age in the shadow of an arranged marriage I eventually escaped. Sharing that story — first in photographs and essays, and now in fragments across this blog — has been part of reclaiming my own voice. Here, the threads come together: resilience, restoration, and storytelling through fabric, memory, and image.

This blog is both archive and atelier — a place where I trace the quiet beauty of second chances, whether in a rescued dress, a retold story, or the slow building of a sustainable life.