Jessica Parkes is a British Columbia-based artist. Born and raised in Kamloops, she attended the Thompson Rivers University for two years, completing her Fine Arts Diploma in 2000. These years allowed Jessica to express her creativity through the use of photography, drawing, and painting.
After university, Jessica spent almost a year traveling in Australia before moving to Vancouver where she attended continuing education courses in photography at Focal Point – The Visual Arts Learning Centre. After her time spent at Focal Point, Jessica realized that she still had a strong desire to see more of the world and embarked on a trip to Southeast Asia spending three months exploring Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. While abroad she was able to utilize her photographic eye and, in doing so, realized how important photography had become to her.
Jessica decided that her next step was to further her technical education and expand her skill set by attending and completing the Summer Intensive and Digital Intensive 2006 programs at Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana.
Since then, Jessica is continually working to develop her perspective of fine art while also shooting portraiture and painting.

Jessica can be contacted via email at info@jessicaparkesphotography.com or
by phone 778-868-FOTO (3686).