About

Bio

I grew up in NYC, went to Brooklyn Tech, then went to Columbia and Sciences Po. In college I studied a lot of different things, mostly a combination of economics, computer science, and sociology.

Outside of the classroom I played rugby for 3 years, but after my 3rd concussion had to quit. When I was at Sciences Po, I was part of the poetry club, Sciences Poésie, and wrote for the student newspaper. I also threw a lot of events and parties and was a DJ.

After I graduated, I moved to Georgia, the country, for 7 months to be a math teacher.

I returned to NYC in January of 2024. I was a freelance photographer for 2 months, then I started a company with my old professor. We shut down the company in September of 2024.

I then started working at Upfront, a real estate finance company. I was the 2nd hire and did sales and product. I left the company in April of 2025.

Between April 2025 and October 2025, I was working as a freelance photographer and organizing my event stop1. I started as operations manager at Faraday, a home services back-office software company, in November. I’m in the Canal Street office 5 days a week and always willing to grab a coffee in the area. I still continue to take portraits and run stop1.

I’m based in the Lower East Side.

Contact

If you want to get in touch, you can email me at contact@jmkettle.com

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