Claire Jantzen is a photographer and director based in Los Angeles.

Her eye was shaped early when she picked up a camera at age eleven. What began as a private curiosity quickly grew into a visible path: hired photo sessions, national recognition, and, unexpectedly, a place in the public world as a young maker.

At fifteen, she signed with a production company and became one of the youngest working commercial directors. She was pitching treatments, defending ideas, and leading crews as a teenager - learning, rigorously and early, how to articulate vision and hold creative authority with clarity and calm.

Studying Film Production and Art in college helped her return to the quieter parts of creation - experimenting with form and abstraction. After years spent consulting and creating for brands on the agency side, she found her way back to the craft of image-making itself.

Today, working across still and moving image, her interest lies in the emotional architecture of human experience - how truth, memory, and beauty reveal, themselves in moments of quiet perception. She approaches the everyday as a site of transformation, where observation becomes a kind of devotion and emotion a language of its own.