Jenny Sampson was born and raised in San Francisco. She earned a B.A. in Psychobiology in 1991 at Pitzer College, and has dedicated her time to her photographic endeavours since then: wet plate collodion, traditional black and white photography, and commissioned portraits. She is a member of The Rolls and Tubes Collective. Her first monograph, Skaters, was published in October 2017 by Daylight Books. She currently resides in Berkeley, California.