Jada and David Parrish

Jersey City Think Inside The Box Workshop Recap
By Jada Parrish | Behind The Scenes | 09/04/25
Our very first Think Inside the Box Workshop happened in Jersey City on August 23–24, and wow… what a creative, collaborative, wild ride it was! This was our first time hosting a workshop, and honestly, it blew our expectations out...
Why I Love Photo Contests (and Why You Should Try Them Too)
By Jada Parrish | News | 09/03/25
One of the easiest ways for photographers to get their work in front of a bigger audience is through photo contests. Over the past few years, we’ve started entering more of them, and I’ve become a big fan. Not just because of the exposur...
3 Easy DIY Photo Sets That Pop with No Power Tools
By Jada Parrish | Article | 09/02/25
We build sets all the time with plywood, power tools, and paint.  But this time, we wanted to push ourselves: what if we built three DIY photo sets with no tools at all, using only simple materials from the hardware store? To make things e...
Turning Road Trips Into Photo Projects (aka Why Our Cameras Always Ride Shotgun)
By Jada Parrish | Article | 08/14/25
David and I love a road trip. There’s something about having everything you need in the car with you and just going, seeing things you’ve never seen before and experiencing life through a new lens. But over time, we realized that road t...
Posing vs. Directing: How to Create More Authentic Emotion in Your Portraits
By Jada Parrish | Article | 08/11/25
Photographers talk a lot about posing. But here’s the thing: posing isn’t always enough. When I’m shooting, I’m not just thinking about where a hand should go or how the light falls across the face. I’m thinking about ...
Here's Why You Need to Come to The Think Inside The Box Workshop
By Jada Parrish | Article | 08/08/25
What happens when you give photographers a set, some paint, killer models, and total creative freedom? Let’s find out. Our first-ever Think Inside the Box Workshop is going down in just a couple of weeks in Jersey City, and we still have ...
Featured on the Wisdom in the Tangents Podcast: From Wedding Photographers to Full-Time Artists
By Jada Parrish | Press | 08/08/25
We recently sat down with John Mansfield on the Wisdom in the Tangents podcast to share the story of how we completely transformed our careers from shooting over 30 weddings a year to creating surreal set designs for artists, musicians, fashion ...
Custom Stage Build for DC World Pride – From Sketch to Set in 7 Days
By Jada Parrish | Behind The Scenes | 08/08/25
Every commissioned project we take on is super unique — but this one be one of our most fun yet. We were hired to design and build a forced perspective stage set, drive it up to Washington D.C., and do live photo shoots at the Maurice p...
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Jada + David Parrish are mixed media artists whose work explores the connection between painting, sculpture, motion, and photography.