Founder + President > Latham Jenkins

A native of North Carolina and a graduate of Appalachian State University, Latham Jenkins has pursued a lifelong passion for photography. At a young age, Latham’s father gave him his first camera. It was the best gift he’d ever gotten…until he learned that he’d have to work to earn the money for the film! It seemed like hard knocks at the time, but Jenkins now believes that, because he had to work for the film, he was more careful about the photos that he took.

In 1992 Jenkins turned his passion into a profession and opened his first company, First Light Photography. Pursuing his dream of being an adventure travel photographer, his big break came with a commission to provide destination photography for American Airlines’ Fly-Away vacation guides.

This provided a foundation for launching the next generation of the company in 1995, First Light Ventures, Inc. Combining his photography with desktop publishing, Jenkins’ interest in the creative world of publishing and online media was born.