Aylette jenness biography of michael

A Photographer's Journey through Alaska, Nigeria, and Life

Aylette Jenness
Aylette Publications (Dec 8, 2021)
Softcover$59.95 (220pp)
978-0-9910772-2-9

Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5

Sometime a Clear Light is a poignant photographer’s memoir that integrates striking images into its personal tale.

Aylette Jenness’s memoir Sometime a Clear Light focuses on her family’s 1960s experiences in Alaska and Nigeria.

Now in her eighties and facing macular degeneration, photographer and children’s writer Aylette Jenness shares vibrant stories from her life and career.

The moments that shaped her are relayed in terms of dramatic landscapes and encounters, with sensory details as of raucous sounds and an oft-referenced river.

The book’s lively vignettes follow along as Jenness’s family moves to Alaska to support her husband, an anthropologist charged with doing fieldwork.

There, they and their children occupied a one-room attic above a village store. They for