Jake Belcher Photography

01/04/2024

Happy New Year everyone! This was one of the last projects I worked on in 2023 for an MIT News feature about Dr. Benedetto Marelli who has developed a silk based technology that is helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods. The technolgies have performed well and are already being tested in Morocco. Seriously game changing stuff for people who suffer from food inequities world wide.

12/23/2023

12/22/2023

Over the summer I photographed Professor James Fujimoto for MIT. He was recently honored with the Lasker Award for his influential work on optical cohearance tomography which allows early detection of many eye diseases.

11/10/2023

I recently followed Boston University juniors, Cadets Dharma Cooper and Audrey Soukop, as they took part in a full day of weapons training and fi****ms safety with the BU ROTC Charles River Batallion. The cadets had never shot on a range before this semiannual trip to Joint Base Cape Cod and the passing of competency fi****ms training is mandatory regardless of which branch of the military the cadets choose to enter. Many thanks to the BU ROTC for letting me tag along for the day. I will post a link to the article in my bio.

10/19/2023

I worked on a portrait project with rising seniors last week at Somerville High School for my long-standing client Breakthrough Boston.

10/18/2023

Mona Awad, a Canadian novelist has recently been proclaimed literary heir to Margaret Atwood by Atwood herself. Awad's newest novel, Rogue is a darkly comedic horror tale about a young women's obsession with beauty. Shot for

10/11/2023

I had the immense pleaaure of spending a little bit of with the Avi Loeb last month for . Loeb is a Harvard theoretical physicist who studies astrophysics and cosmology and has been outspoken about the very real possibilty of extraterrestrial life with the science to back it up. A recent underwater expedition led by Loeb off the coast of Papua New Guinea led to the finding of at least 50 spherules made with some materials if unknown origin but are believed to have come from an interstellar meteor that fell in the area back in 2014. I enjoyed chatting with Avi about this subject and the intersection between extraterrestrial conjecture and actual proof of life outside our planet.

04/26/2023

I ran into this woman while she was walking her dog to class the other day while I was doing a portrait project for Tufts unrelated to this picture. She's a professor at the school and brings her dog to class often.

04/17/2023

Back in December I spent an hour with Harvard Public Health Physician, David Eisenberg at his home. He is the founder of The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, taking his passion for cooking and teaching other physicians as well as school age children how to cook while promoting wellness and prevent disease. Eisenberg's goal is to install these teaching kitchens thoroughout the country. Shot for Food Technology Magazine

03/08/2023

Late last year I photographed Nicolette Bugher for MIT News Magazine. Bugher is part of an MIT Supefund research program studying poisons lurking in our environment. Thanks to for the call on this one.

12/23/2022

Over the summer I got a call from the London Telegraph to photograph a woman who was writing a first person story on post pandamic intergenerational travel. Glenda who was already in Boston working at project at Boston University invited her two daughters and mother to visit Boston and Provincetown over week- and-a-half. I spent a couple of days with them as they navigated through P-Town and Boston, visiting Harvard, Paul Revere's house and of course Target.

12/22/2022

I met this woman waiting for her bus while I was searching for the infamous Abbey Rd crossing on a day off from my work shooting schedule. I only had about a minute to make this portrait before her bus arrived, but she was kind enough to let me photograph her. I wish I had met her 5 min earlier to get her story or at least her name.