Jovelle Tamayo
Photographer / Based in Seattle
Jovelle Tamayo (b. 1991, Olongapo City, Philippines) is an independent visual journalist available for photo and video assignments in Seattle, the Philippines and beyond. Since 2016, she’s taught photography and...
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Jovelle Tamayo (b. 1991, Olongapo City, Philippines) is an independent visual journalist available for photo and video assignments in Seattle, the Philippines and beyond.
Since 2016, she’s taught photography and filmmaking to youth with Reel Grrls, Coyote Central, the Northwest Film Forum, the Seattle International Film Festival and The Everyday Projects. She is also a part-time journalism lecturer at the University of Washington.
Jovelle is a founding member of the Authority Collective, a network of women, non-binary and transgender image-makers of color that aims to build community and share resources, and hold industry leaders accountable.
Previously, she covered daily news and sports at the Yakima Herald-Republic in Central Washington, the Valley News in Vermont/New Hampshire, and The Times Herald-Record in New York’s Hudson Valley through the Dow Jones News Fund. In 2013, as a Digital Media Work Scholar at Aperture Foundation, she managed the Foundation’s social media presence and supported the relaunch of Aperture Magazine. Jovelle graduated with a degree in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she served as editor-in-chief and photography editor of The Daily Targum, the nation’s second-oldest college newspaper.
Since 2016, she’s taught photography and filmmaking to youth with Reel Grrls, Coyote Central, the Northwest Film Forum, the Seattle International Film Festival and The Everyday Projects. She is also a part-time journalism lecturer at the University of Washington.
Jovelle is a founding member of the Authority Collective, a network of women, non-binary and transgender image-makers of color that aims to build community and share resources, and hold industry leaders accountable.
Previously, she covered daily news and sports at the Yakima Herald-Republic in Central Washington, the Valley News in Vermont/New Hampshire, and The Times Herald-Record in New York’s Hudson Valley through the Dow Jones News Fund. In 2013, as a Digital Media Work Scholar at Aperture Foundation, she managed the Foundation’s social media presence and supported the relaunch of Aperture Magazine. Jovelle graduated with a degree in political science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she served as editor-in-chief and photography editor of The Daily Targum, the nation’s second-oldest college newspaper.