Janet Jarman

Janet Jarman

Janet Jarman

Mexico City, Mexico

Janet Jarman is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker working predominantly in Mexico and Central America, where she produces stories about security issues, public health, with a special focus on maternal health challenges, water resource problems and solutions, and other environmental issues. 

Jarman has worked on assignment for National Geographic, The New York Times, GEO, Smithsonian Magazine, Der Spiegel, The Wall Street Journal, amongst others. She has also worked for a number of international foundations. Her photographs have received numerous international awards and have been featured at Visa Pour l’Image, Perpignan. She has also served as a judge in prestigious photojournalism competitions such as Pictures of the Year International, the FNPI Premio Gabo, POY Latam and CPOY (College Photographer of the Year).

In addition to working on editorial assignments for magazines and newspapers, Jarman has produced various long-term photo and multimedia projects. She continues to expand her project titled “Birth Wars” which includes a feature-length documentary film and a forthcoming book supported by a grant from The MacArthur Foundation.

Jarman began her career in South Florida after graduating from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked as a staff photographer at The Miami Herald, and later obtained a master’s degree in environmental issues at the University of London. She is represented by Redux Pictures and is a member of Women Photograph.

 

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Members of a Mexican family's private professional security team travel behind their boss's car, poised for potential action.
Maria José Pérez , 4, gazes curiously from the roadside, while police officers prepare to inspect a liquor store for suspicious activity.
José's daughter prepares to attend her "princess" themed birthday party while one of her personal security guards stands on alert at the beauty salon.
Municipal police savor night training exercises taught by Israeli foreign security experts.
Auto defense group members in Mexico's Michoacan state stop vehicles on an isolated mountain road at high noon, while their comrades search nearby wooded areas, in an effort to secure the area before taking over another village in the state's Tierra Caliente zone.
Wearing his signature black sombrero, Dr. José Manuel Mireles gives a motivational speech to residents in Tancitaro, days after the town, located in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state, liberated itself from the oppressive drug cartel that calls itself the Knights Templars.
Traditional midwife Lucia Girón Pérez attends a family with a sick baby at 5 a.m. at her home in Tzajalchen, a small community in the municipality of Tenejapa, Chiapas, Mexico, where she lives. Often traveling through fog and rain, hundreds of women in the surrounding area come to Girón’s home at all hours of the day and night to seek her maternal health services.
In the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, traditional midwife María López Gonzalez (known as “Doña Mari”), checks Rosita Gonzalez López, 22, to see if her baby is in the right position.
Traditional midwife Guadalupe Guzmán Cruz measures the newborn son of her daughter-in-law, María Elena Pérez Jiménez, (seated), after delivering him the day before inside her home, located in the Highlands of Chiapas.
Sergio Castro (L) makes a house call to a terminally ill resident in San Cristobal de Las Casas in Mexico’s Chiapas state.
Rafaela López’ partner, José Hernández, communicates with the couple’s unborn baby while Rafaela’s daughter, Johana, 11, ignores them, inside their home in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Exhausted and exhilarated, Rafaela López rests inside the pool where she gave birth, at her home in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, while her partner, her mother and her midwife help her hold her newborn boy against her skin.
A foal runs to catch up with its mother on the southern outskirts of Mexico City, while Maira Itzel Reyes Ferrer, 26, walks with her husband and her midwife, in an effort to advance her labor contractions.
Nayeli Balderas, 30, works through intense labor contractions, inside her Mexico City home, while being comforted by her husband, Javier Basilio Lara, and supported by perinatal nurse midwives Margarita Marrón Escobedo (R front) and Guadalupe Hernández (R back).
A doctor pauses for a brief moment of silence between back-to-back Cesarean operations inside the Covid-19 Unit of Mexico City’s National Institute of Perinatology (INPer).
Medical personnel help Jazmín Joaquín de la Cruz breastfeed, an hour after she gave birth to twins by cesarean inside the Covid-19 unit of the National Institute of Perinatology (INPer) in Mexico City.
Doctors release Alejandra Guevarra Villegas, 19, from the operating room after delivering her baby by emergency Cesarean in San Luis Acatlán, in Mexico’s Guerrero state.
Reina Isabel Guido leads her group to one of the highest points of Finca La Revancha (1,000m) in the early morning. La Revancha became the first Fair Trade certified coffee estate in Central America in November 2013.
Guatemalan coffee pickers convene around a morning fire to warm the breakfast that will sustain them during a long day of harvesting coffee cherries in Chiapas, Mexico.
In Chiapas, Mexico, a group of Guatemalan coffee pickers sort through thousands of coffee beans they have collected since the early morning.
A company truck winds through the vast Zaragoza coffee estate in Nicaragua, carrying workers with their daily coffee harvest.
A farmworker in Mexico’s Chiapas state uses a long pole to make holes for planting corn seeds.
Workers excavate inside one of 24 shafts (ranging from 26 to 150 meters deep), that form part of the Tunél Emisor Oriente (TEO), one of Mexico's most dramatic water infrastructure projects in 40 years.
Built up detergents in wastewater form immense mounds of foam as Mexico City’s black water (sewage) flows through a small irrigation canal in Mezquital Valley, where farmers use the untreated wastewater to irrigate crops.
Florentina Aguilar, 74 (L) and Malania García, 49, graze sheep in Hidalgo’s primary irrigation district.
Alperio Jaramilla Gonzalez transports water to his animals several kilometers from his home, in the village of El Vergel, in the arid hilly lands of northern Guanajuato, Mexico.
Women put final paint touches on the last of six cisterns they built as a team in the community of Garabatillo, located a few kilometers from Catalán Del Refugio, a small town in northern Guanajuato, Mexico.
Bored and counting the hours until she could return to the U.S., Marisol watches CARS 2 for the fifteenth time with her children, in the bedroom that her ex-mother in-law had hoped would become hers, had her son and Marisol stayed together.
Marisol Rodriguez and her children endure a 28-hour bus ride from Mexico City to Dallas, Texas at the end of her three-week stay at her in-laws.
Marisol continues to wash large industrial trucks with Andrés, despite their divorce proceedings.
Surrounded by her cousins, Yaneli Frías prepares for her Quinceañera celebration inside the home of one of her aunts, in Catalán del Refugio, a small farming town in Mexico’s Guanajuato state.
Ready for her Quinceañera celebration to begin, Yaneli Frías stands for a portrait inside her home, where she lives with her mother, her aunts and her grandmother in Catalán del Refugio, Guanajuato, México.
Young women eagerly await the commencement of the Quinceañero celebration honoring the 15th birthday of their friend, Edmundo.
Despite inclement weather, residents and entertainers in the small town of Catalán del Refugio, Guanajuato, Mexico, rush to prepare for their annual “Day of the Migrant” celebration.
Guests dance with the bride and groom at the beginning of a wedding reception dance in San Antonio de Lourdes.
Guests make a traditional toast to Alonso during a celebration he asked his mother have for his 15th birthday, similar to a young woman’s Quinceañera.
Holding onto a Santa Muerte (Saint Death) statue in an expression of devotion, worshippers listen and pray during a midnight Rosary service attended by over a thousand devotees one of the most famous Santa Muerte shrines, started in 2001 by Enriqueta Romero in Mexico City’s Tepito neighborhood.
A dance troupe takes a brief break to pray, inside the church of Los Ricos, a small community in Mexico’s Guanajuato state, during their annual celebration to honor San Isidro, the patron saint of farmers.
Hermelinda Corona de Reyes sits among numerous "stuffed" animals in her living room in Mexico City's Santa Maria de la Ribera neighborhood.
Famous Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin surrounds himself with his dogs, at his Mexico City office in August 2009.
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