Jessica Standish Photography - Pennsylvania Newborn Photographer

Jessica Standish Photography - Pennsylvania Newborn Photographer NEPA Photographer
Color + Love Filled Portrait & Storytelling sessions in NEPA - and beyond!

NEPA Photographer
Color and love-filled storytelling lifestyle & custom portrait sessions
maternity • newborn • family

it has been decided... glitter snow must return in this final season of holiday joy at JSP Pittston.
09/04/2026

it has been decided... glitter snow must return in this final season of holiday joy at JSP Pittston.

SEEN Faces of Type OneLife Between the Highs and LowsThis one has been sitting in my head — and my heart — for a while.W...
08/25/2026

SEEN
Faces of Type One
Life Between the Highs and Lows

This one has been sitting in my head — and my heart — for a while.

When Type 1 Diabetes entered our world, I learned pretty quickly how easy it is for life to become about numbers.
BG. Carbs. Insulin. A1C. TIR. Highs. Lows.

Absolutely none of those numbers tell you who the person living them actually is.
Who the parents carrying those numbers in their heads are. The siblings running for a juice box. The people learning the alarms and becoming their support system.
They don't show the funny parts. The frustrating parts. The things they're completely over. The scars, snacks, sleepless nights, inside jokes, victories — or all of the ordinary life happening around diabetes every day.

So here we are — a portrait project about that.

The faces. The personalities. The people who love them. The things T1D has changed and the things it absolutely can't touch.

My hope is that this project helps us grow our own T1D community here in PA, but more importantly, gives people a place to share their stories — the real, sometimes messy, sometimes funny, often loud and lacking-in-sleep stories of life with Type One.

And the first face had to be the one who made me see all of this differently in the first place 💙

SEEN // 001: Madilynne
Her story started January 14, 2025 with a BG just >500 or HIGH , DKA, ER, a Life Flight and many days in the hospital.

Twenty months later, diabetes isn't easier.

We've just gotten stronger and learned how to carry it differently.

There are things about T1D you can see — pumps, Dexcoms, sites, bruises and scars.
And there is so much you can't.

But underneath all of it is still this kid.
Currently completely over prebolusing. 😂
A connoisseur of low snacks.
Surrounded by people who've learned how to show up for her.
And when asked what T1D can't stop her from doing?
ANYTHING.
That's exactly the point.
T1D has changed an incredible amount about her life.
It hasn't changed her.

There are so many faces, experiences and stories of Type One that deserve to be SEEN beyond the beeps, devices, highs, lows, carb counts and ICFs.

I can't wait to meet SEEN // 002 💙

The very first time shooting @ 157 N Main. I don't think at this point the idea of my new studio hadn't even been born y...
08/06/2026

The very first time shooting @ 157 N Main. I don't think at this point the idea of my new studio hadn't even been born yet.

157 N Main was magic in all the stages.
08/05/2026

157 N Main was magic in all the stages.

🎵 Closing Time... but first—one last round of magic.Fifteen years.Three of those years have been spent inside these beau...
08/05/2026

🎵 Closing Time... but first—one last round of magic.

Fifteen years.

Three of those years have been spent inside these beautiful walls at 157 N. Main Street.

It's hard to believe the final days are here.

This studio has held so much life—new babies, growing families, milestones, tears, laughter, hugs, celebrations, and thousands of moments that families will carry with them forever.

Over the last two weekends, I'll be photographing this space the way it all began—no elaborate sets, no furniture, just beautiful light, the character of this old studio... and the swing, of course. A quick round of magic micro sessions to button up this chapter 🤍

I have a feeling these final sessions are going to be some of my favorites yet.

08/04/2026

Remember when….

The new studio was just a bed, and it’s natural beauty? With less than a month left inside those beautiful walls I felt the need to shoot it in its natural state. I’ve been shooting in this space since it was a dilapidated warehouse with gaping holes in the floors and no walls. So much magic. I needed to extend my lease a month to capture some last minute simple studio micros - bottling up as many dances, laughs, and magic as I can fit in before the end of the month - swing included.

15 years I’ve had my own space. 3 of those years in Pittston. The end of this chapter seems a bit scary but with health demands high at home it’s unavoidably time to force myself to slow down. But I’m fairly certain these last bits of magic micros are going to be some of my favorites in Pittston yet 🥰

Dear newly diagnosed mom,I see you.You're sitting on your bathroom floor holding another handful of your child's hair - ...
07/24/2026

Dear newly diagnosed mom,
I see you.
You're sitting on your bathroom floor holding another handful of your child's hair - letting out tears you’ve been hiding from everyone.
You're staring at test strips and Dexcom graphs. Carb ratios and correction factors. Trying to math all the things, figure out sliding scales and placing ketones strips around the bathrooms like tissue boxes.
You're grieving things that you see diabetes taking from them. Little lives changed in a blink.
You're wondering if life will ever feel... normal again.
These photos are for you.
MJ wasn't even a year into diagnosis yet. Barely six months.
She had recently gotten her pump, and a few months earlier her hair had started falling out to an alarming degree. And when I say alarming... I mean it.
I cried quietly behind her as I brushed so she couldn’t see me in the mirror.
To everyone else, it was just hair.
To me, it felt like another thing diabetes had taken.
For most of her life, her long, thick blonde curls were simply part of who she was. People stopped us everywhere to talk about her beautiful hair. It fell well past her waist before diagnosis.
After we came home from the PICU, I felt lost. I was lost. But she was so strong. So resilient.

About two weeks later, her hair started knotting in ways it never had before. I’d never seen anything like the mass of knot that was the back of her head after simply hanging out in her hammock with a friend. Mounds of dead hair tangled in the hair I was carefully trying to save.
I didn't know it then, but that was just the beginning.
Within days, I was brushing handfuls of hair from her head every single day.
She joked there was so much she could play volleyball with it. She did.
I cried when she wasn't looking.

Turns out IG thinks I talk to much -- 𝕚𝕗 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕞𝕖, 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕚𝕥 -- so the rest of the story is in the comments

Same, Lucianna. Same.
06/11/2026

Same, Lucianna. Same.

Ricky got a baby sister. Welcome to this world, sweet Margaret🩷
06/11/2026

Ricky got a baby sister. Welcome to this world, sweet Margaret🩷

Final spring in the studio was full of all of my favorite things - love, laughs, snuggles - and swinging of course.
06/11/2026

Final spring in the studio was full of all of my favorite things - love, laughs, snuggles - and swinging of course.

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Pittston, PA
18640

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Tuesday 10am - 3pm
Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Thursday 10am - 3pm
Friday 10am - 3pm

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