Jayde DesRoches, a fifth-year USask student completing her B.A. (Honours) in Psychology, has had a long-standing inclination towards photography and poetry. 

She initially started capturing landscape images on her phone, but after taking a couple of undergraduate courses in photography, her interest grew. After getting her own camera, she has been practicing photography working towards her ultimate goal; getting into editorial photography, particularly for celebrities, where she would capture images that help support a story or narrative told in a publication. As practice for this, her favorite image to capture is currently a creative portrait.

The talented photographer wears many hats, including writing different forms of poetry. She explains that she gradually started writing to process her feelings, and that she only started to share her poems recently. Her poems cover a broad range of naturally human experiences, explaining that she writes whatever comes to her. 

In the future, she hopes to combine her knowledge of these two artforms into a book, where her poetry is accompanied by her very own photos. 

For the past year, Jayde has been enriching the Sheaf with her poetry and photography, having published them in almost every print issue since October of 2023. In the beginning, she would submit a poem of hers overlapped with images she captured, but this has progressed into submitting extremely high-quality stock photos of the USask campus and volunteering to take pictures of our Welcome Week table. She does also continue to submit poetry, which we always welcome!

For anyone wishing to explore Jayde’s photography, please visit the Instagram account she has dedicated to her craft: @jadedexposure

The Sheaf Editorial Staff very sincerely appreciates all the diligent work Jayde has done for us in the last year, and we’re happy to watch her grow as an artist. Thank you, Jayde!

I asked Jayde if there’s a specific credit for this, TBD

I really really like this picture and if we can use both in the paper/website, that would be great!