Contact

EMAIL: info@justinkernes.com
PHONE: 714-944-3457

HEY THERE: If you found any joy or help from my PCT work, please send me an email—it would make my day!

About

Justin Kernes is a photographer, outdoorsman, and writer based in Breckenridge, Colorado. His natural habitat range is between 9,800-11,500-feet and he is an optimistic scavenger by nature. He earned a BA in Art from California State University East Bay in 2013.

In the summers of 2010-2017, he worked for the Boy Scouts of America at Philmont Scout Ranch. He self-published a photobook in 2014—Wild & Untamed—centered around the historical reenactment of miners, loggers, and homesteaders of New Mexico at the turn-of-the-century.
At the start of 2021, he released a second book about the backcountry staff members and their three-month working summer. Last Summer at Camp contains over 10 years of photographic work from Kernes’s Philmont experience.

In 2018, he thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. He produced a photo-essay from each day of his 130-day journey.