Jade Stephens Photography

Jade Stephens Photography Australian photographer based in Berlin. Available for commission for product, lifestyle, social content. www.instagram.com/hej.jade

Nature is therapy 💚Our phones have such a grip on our attention, sucking us into the vortex of information and ripping u...
09/08/2026

Nature is therapy 💚

Our phones have such a grip on our attention, sucking us into the vortex of information and ripping us away from the present moment. We have forgotten what it’s like to feel bored. To allow space for our minds to wander, to process, to create connections and wait. I find myself reaching for my phone or opening Instagram by muscle memory when I have a second of “waiting” then catch myself thinking “why the f**k am I here?” while staring at an open tab of some platform I don’t need to be consuming.

Putting away my phone and going hiking into nature, ideally without reception and even better solo is the surest way for me to detox and reset. I try do an overnight solo hut or camping hiking trip at least once a season. It helps me to reset, to open my mind, feel boredom and the simple rhythm of my own two feet. So quickly creative juices start to flow. My soul is alight again.

It doesn’t need to be a huge, grand trip each time. On days that I am hitting a wall mentally (usually a day or two before my period) I just take a bus up into the forest and then walk home. Or I go for a small stroll around the block if that’s all I can manage. Sometimes I don’t take my phone. Simple presence being in nature. Trying my hardest to break the muscle memory reflex to be consuming and constantly “doing”.

Less screen, more green. Nature is therapy. Give your mind a chance to rest too 💚

Photos from my many walks or runs in nature the past few years. Mostly shot on film 🫶

Memories from last year’s Switzerland hiking & photography workshop 🫶 Only a few weeks away from our third annual worksh...
05/08/2026

Memories from last year’s Switzerland hiking & photography workshop 🫶 Only a few weeks away from our third annual workshop and we have a spot available!

Mathilde Rietsch - Outdoor Photographer have hosted this sold out workshop for the past few years and it fills our hearts with joy every single time 🥹 I love going back through the images and videos and seeing so much joy on everyone’s faces. Plus headed back to these stunning locations that made me tear up 🙂‍↕️ big yes thank you!

August 24th - 30th, Switzerland.

Thinking of joining us for a week of outdoor creative fun, hiking, exploring and learning with like-minded souls? Slide into my dm’s. More info on my website and vlo - a vibrant life outdoors 🙏

After learning on a DSLR in my teens, I was interested to learn film photography so I could slow down, be more intention...
25/07/2026

After learning on a DSLR in my teens, I was interested to learn film photography so I could slow down, be more intentional and really learn the camera functions. On my digital I would sometimes find myself taking a million photos of the same thing for a slightly different angle. I didn’t feel intentional.

Visiting my parents I mentioned this to my dad who promptly told me he has three film cameras sitting in storage! Blessings of a dad who is into photography and doesn’t throw away technology or useful things (I think he still has our old Nokia bricks and flip phones haha).

And so began my journey into film photography with my dad’s Canon A1. I love this camera so much. I love the sound of the shutter, the design of the body, and how much it changed the way I approach photography and upskilled me as a photographer. There was a looooot of missed shots and painful mistakes (still are), but also so many incredible ones that made me tear up at the scans.

The lens is fully manual, forcing me to really slow down and focus on the composition. Having a limited number of shots on a roll (and it growing in expense constantly) made me even more intentional with each photo. There are countless times where I have stood and composed a shot for several minutes before deciding it’s not good enough and walking away. A good way to exercise detachment from an outcome I think.

This is my favourite camera for slow travel, street photography or day trips. There is a particular way that I see the world compared to my others cameras with this in my hands. Noticing the details, frames within frames. Watching the world around me happening. It makes me so much more present on the journey of every day.

09/07/2026

Unravelling time amongst ancient cedars on Japan’s Yakushima Island: now on YouTube and Substack.

I took my Sony + Tripod to film a very long and wet 26km hike deep into the mountains of Yakushima in search of the ancient cedar: Jōmon Sugi. Estimated between 2,500 and 7,200 years old, this tree defies our concepts of time.

Yakushima is also famous as the inspiration for my favourite Studio Ghibli film: Princess Mononoke. A story formed around humanity’s unbalanced relationship with nature in an age of industrialisation and destruction for profit. It’s a story which has never lost its meaning, and one that inspired me to travel to one of the most spiritual forests I have ever experienced.

I wrote a Substack essay detailing our time and hike here: sharing from the perspective of learnings, observations and teachings. The video follows a similar path. It’s one I am quite proud of.

You can follow the link in my bio to both my Substack and YouTube channels 🫶

I have so many film photos and stories to share from Japan, but every time I go to share I feel a little stuck. I start ...
19/06/2026

I have so many film photos and stories to share from Japan, but every time I go to share I feel a little stuck. I start overthinking about the type of things I share here – whether it’s relevant, maybe serving the wrong niche, or that I should post more of the sports and movement related work I want to do instead.

I have been spending a little too much time consuming on this app and not creating. Comparing, over-thinking, feeling unsure. I have often struggled with my relationship with Instagram - on one hand it has given me so many wonderful life changing connections, provided me with an audience and the beginnings of a livelihood. But that is also at a cost to my mental health and creative expression. It can be difficult when you’re feeling unsure or at a cross roads in your own life to not compare. It’s also difficult when you feel a pressure to continually produce and output every day when in reality creativity comes in natural cycles and does not fit into this insane information heavy world we live in.

When I look at these film photos from Japan they remind me of the peace, tranquility and transcendent feeling that we are one with the Earth that I felt at these temples. They don’t feel like they fit into the Instagram short-attention-span world. They are ever lasting, they are grand, they are heavy. And they mean something so deeply and spiritually.

They remind me that the most important things in life are things that have weight, that take time to craft, to build, to learn. They live on and have meaning beyond the initial impression. In other words, they leave a mark.

Anyway – after all that rambling, I think that’s actually what I come back to. If I am taking your attention I want it to be of value to you. Maybe you stop to think deeper, consider more, or inspire you to get outside. That’s why I want to be here. To help you feel connected to yourself and nature. To slow down and ponder.

To inspire you to get outside and create.

And to remind myself it’s just a silly little app.

📸 Canon A1 + Olympus Mju 1
🎥 iPhone & graded in
🎞️ Gold 200

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