Jennifer Pantaléon is a documentary photographer who has lived and photographed the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years. Her projects began in the late 1980s and focused on photographing at-risk youth to be used for children’s advocacy agencies working to create after-school programs, playgrounds, schools, and the like.
Jennifer has taught photography to unhoused teenagers at Youth Industry in San Francisco (from 1997-2001), as well as collaborated with teachers in the Photography in Education programs at various San Francisco schools.
Her documentary projects have included young Alaskan gold miners, landmine victims in Cambodia, victims of AIDS in San Francisco, and runaway and unhoused individuals in the Bay Area. During the last couple decades, she has continued to teach photography to area youth and her documentary photography has grown in include documenting individuals and youth in Haiti.
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