About

There are three of us who make up Elle Jae – James Sanders, Lisa Crawford and Jennifer Graham.  Lisa and James work together as a husband/wife team and were the original two photographers.  Jennifer is the new blood around here and she adds welcome change and energy to Elle Jae.

James began his photographic career after obtaining a BFA in Photograhy in 1993. He spent several years in Los Angeles working in commercial studios shooting mostly swim wear, dance wear and other catalog work.  It didn’t take long however to grow weary of LA traffic, smog and heat, so he convinced Lisa to move north with him. In 2001, he shot his first wedding and realized that it fulfilled much of what he loves about photography – narrative, beauty, natural light and portraiture.

Lisa started coordinating weddings in 2001 and has since worked on hundreds of weddings as a planner, coordinator and designer.  On New Year’s Eve of 2005,  Lisa shot her first wedding with James and she found it challenging, fun and creatively exciting.  Since then she and James have been shooting weddings both together and separately.

Jennifer Graham has joined Elle Jae as of 2011 and she brings an enormous depth of experience with shooting weddings.  She is constantly in awe of the beauty she sees in each individual, each moment and each relationship she photographs.  This and the constant discovery of creating is what has propelled her to be a photographer for the last two decades on two different coasts.  For our fellow ’30 Rock’ fans, Jennifer is the third heat at Elle Jae.

Working together or separately James, Lisa & Jennifer devote themselves to the weddings they work on. They strive to capture candid emotion, thorough narrative and wonderful details for every bride and groom.