Art in many forms San Diego musicians who channel their creative juices in other ways By Angela Carroll
JEN JANSEN, photographer
Jen Jansen, bassist/singer of The Displaced, is inspired by the people she sees. She captures their images and turns them into characters, their stories told through both her band’s music and her photography. She’s become known as a go-to for band photos because of her imaginative style.
“With a little bit of humor, a little bit of menace and a lot of strange props, I create my own little worlds,” she says.
But to Jansen, taking pictures is less about the end result-it’s about the interaction and spending time with her subjects. A series of photographs called “Dave Wilson vs. Bacon” were taken to recreate the hilarity of Wilson’s obsession with whiskey, cigarettes and buttered bacon on a recent trip to Las Vegas.
“He is that kind of wild character and I wanted to capture that,” she says of the documentary style. “I don’t want to create something fantastical. I want there to be some honesty.”
To see more of Jen Jansen’s photography, log on to www.thedisplaced.com.
