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Jeremy Janus

I moved to Colorado when I was 18 and I struggled deeply with depression, anxiety, and suicide contemplation following high school. I lost my sense of purpose and meaning and struggled to find myself in my latter adolescence. The most meaningful aspect of life that I found when I moved to Colorado was nature. The wilderness would eventually help me through the dark times of my life that included losing a friend to cancer, breaking my back, almost dying from the subsequent surgery complications, as well as several other transformative struggles I faced in early adulthood. I fought through the years of darkness and finally began to conceptualize my life, meaning, and purpose in ways that could bring light to other people’s lives. I did not pick up a camera until I was 30 years old in 2016. I had just moved back to Colorado and one of my childhood friends urged me to pick up a dSLR camera for all my nature adventures. I eventually gave in, picked up a camera, and immediately became obsessed with photography. My love for nature and passion for art were finally able to combine for me to create beautiful nature photography. All the years I spent in the darkness quickly turned to light as I started taking and sharing photos of my experiences. I began to intertwine stories of the pain and suffering I dealt with over the years as the sharing became cathartic for my soul.