Montana High School Rodeo

• Photographer
  Jess McGlothlin
• Agency / Studio
  Jess McGlothlin Media
• Prizes
  Gold in Events/Other, 1st place winner in Events

For Montana ranch kids, rodeo is a way of life. They rise at 5AM to take care of stock before school, and spend their evenings training for the next rodeo. High school rodeo is a strange amalgamation of youth acting like adults — and making a living at it. Emotions run high, rivalries are fierce, and romance is in the air, muddled by dust and mud from the arena.

"McGlothlin is as much a journalist as an angler, creating a visual with words and images like a modern-day lady Hemingway." - Outdoor Hub Jess McGlothlin sees her mission as a simple one: tell stories. Working as a freelance photographer and writer, while on assignment in the past few years she’s learned how to throw spears at coconuts in French Polynesia, dodge saltwater crocodiles in Cuba, stand-up paddleboard down Amazon tributaries and eat all manner of unidentifiable food. Jess is available for contract, editorial, and assignment work, and is currently based in Bozeman, Montana.