Jasmine Ross is an Oakland-based photographer and mixed-media artist with an academic background in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and Art from Yale University. Her practice currently centers on fine-art documentary portraiture . Working primarily with medium and large format cameras, Ross embraces the slow, deliberate nature of using these devices, allowing her pause to see the unseen. She values the tears that come with a stomach-dropping empty roll of film, and the joy of a double exposure or a light leak that are unnatural to the digital process; she finds beauty in the traditional failures of the Dark Room, ultimately speaking to her success as an artist.