A Photographer reflects on what started her love for Photography

March 26, 2019

OMAHA, Neb. - Madeline Jarosik was in Haiti on a missionary trip, in 2017, when she got to witness immense beauty.

Jarosik captured precious moments of children learning and living their lives with abundance joy. She spent an entire week in Haiti creating friendships and giving love to those she helped.

As she captured these moments and experienced this, she finally realized she wanted to do exactly this: cultivate lifelong friendships with love through her photography.

When she was a freshman in high school, she was taken aback by the idea of doing photography. She became editor and chief of her high school yearbook. Her dad had mentioned that she could make her photography a business after seeing the photoshoots she did to raise money for Haiti. It wasn’t until her senior year after she got back from Haiti that she decided to set into motion her idea of owning a photography business.

Three months after she had gotten back from Haiti and started shooting, she was ready to call it quits. She had deleted the Facebook account she had created along with her Instagram page because she started to realize how many other people in Omaha were shooting and how great they were. She was ready to be done but then realized why she began to do this:

“It all led back to Haiti, I wanted to start shooting more and cultivating friendships with people because I feel that’s what my call was: to become friends with people and to get to know them.”

With photography she realized that having the ability to capture people was the most wonderful way to reach people in the most wonderful and vulnerable way possible.

She noticed where the seed for her shooting started to come from: mission work. She then decided that she was going to,

“Base this business off of helping people in love and cultivating friendships with people.”

She started her freshman year off in college with a whole new perspective and created new accounts for Facebook and Instagram. In 2018, she was offered the position to be an intern to Samantha Worthing, a wedding photographer in Omaha, and together they have done 33 weddings. As of now Worthing decided to co-shoot with Jarosik. She learned more from Worthing and received advice on photo shooting.

After a lot of praying and discernment on whether to go through with the business or not she went to Rome and felt a call to just let this business happen. She met up with a graphic designer, Michael Stevens, and they sat down to create a brand.

Jarosik hopes that the future of her business will be one of missionary work. She wants to travel the world and share people’s experiences and wants to continue to cultivate lifelong friendships and help people in love. She will get to continue doing just that as she travels to Ireland with NET, which stands for National Evangelization Teams, on a missionary job this upcoming year.

“From day one it’s been just an idea it started on a superstition and I can tell you now that it is so different than what I thought it would be and it is truly incredible.”