Jenna’s Favorites Archive: Jeet Sohal’s Hancock Park Home
I’ve always loved Hancock Park homes - of all the neighborhoods in LA, Hancock Park is hands down my favorite. Whenever I get booked to shoot a home in Hancock Park, I already know it’s going to be something special. Hancock Park homes (at least the ones that haven’t been destroyed by bad renovations - which happens more than I’d like to think about) have so much history. Every last detail was thought of when these homes were built. The textures are layered, the landscaping is lush, the homes are well loved and well lived in, and the humans who own them tend to have amazing style and fill their homes with treasures.
A few years back (ok, a few more than a few - time is a portal which I seem to have no concept of until I look back at my shoot calendar or through my archive), I was booked by Lonny Magazine to shoot Jeet Sohal’s Hancock Park home (which rumor has it was the former John Barrymore residence). I brought along one of my longtime clients and favorite designers Tammy Price of Fragments Identity to help with prop styling - which thankfully it was already stunning and didn’t need much help (but she brought in some of my favorite pillows and added all the most perfect finishing touches, which of course she did!!).
The minute I first met Jeet, a jewelry designer (her website is www.barecollection.com and you should absolutely go look at her work because it’s so good!!), I knew I’d met a kindred spirit. Her home was filled with laughter and love and treasures collected and art and life and just enough perfect imperfection to recognize that this house wasn’t just for looks, it was lived in daily by Jeet and her family (which at the time included 3 amazing young kids). We spent the day together creating and chatting and every time I look at these images, I get all the warm fuzzies - even though this was one of my earlier career shoots, it remains high on my list of all time favorites.
Recently I was digging through my archives, and went down the rabbit hole of looking through all of the images from this day, and fell in love with this shoot all over again, and wanted to give it it’s own moment of glory - so glory it shall have here on my little corner of the internet universe that gets to be filled with whatever I want to show.
I hope you love looking at the photos as much as I loved shooting them - they speak for themselves, so who needs any more introduction? I’ll just let you scroll away and enjoy.
As always, thanks for visiting my little corner of the internet.
xo-j