JPK MEDIA

Name: JPK MEDIA
Address: 1930 Innovation Way No. 130, Libertyville, IL, 60048, US
Telephone: +18477547884

Libertyville studio photographer. Headshots, personal branding, commercial and product photography.

I'm a photographer who loves working with businesses and organizations to create strong, engaging visuals for marketing and brand storytelling. At my studio in Libertyville, Illinois, I offer product photography as well as professional branding and headshot sessions for Chicagoland creatives, entrepreneurs, and executives.

03/12/2026

In a word: distinguished. Which is exactly what you want your headshot to convey when you’ve reached the C-suite stage of your career.
Thanks for dropping by the studio, Dave!

03/10/2026

Portrait of ’s newest landscape designer, . Best of luck. You’ve joined a great team!

02/21/2026

Recent product work for Clark Wire & Cable, a company in Mundelein that makes and supplies the kind of broadcast cabling and audio-visual equipment used in arenas, corporate boardrooms, sports stadiums, and broadcast newsrooms. Whether you’re sitting in Gillette Stadium watching a replay on the massive high-def video board above the end zone or catching a ballgame at Dodgers Stadium, there are literally miles of specialty cables and a slew of custom A/V panels and stainless-steel enclosures from Clark Wire & Cable that are hidden from view but helping to make the whole experience possible.

02/11/2026

Jeremy dropped by the studio for new headshots while home from college on winter break. You don’t have to wait until you’re in the working world to polish up your profiles.
Time to ditch the selfie? Reach out to book a session.

01/02/2026

A recent business trip brought an old friend from the Boston area out our way, and we squeezed in a headshot session while she was in town. Yvette is one of the most genuine souls I know and a tremendous friend to our family (she’s known my wife since high school). Professionally, she puts her many talents to work in the tech sector, specifically at the intersection of marketing, design, and customer storytelling.
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Need a new set of headshots for 2026? Reach out!

12/23/2025

When do you know you’ve made it as a photographer?
A major magazine cover? Maybe.
A Fortune 500 ad campaign? Sure.
Getting the call to photograph the Hill family Christmas card?
Now you’re talking!
The assignment, hatched over a round of disc golf this fall, came from my friend, Mason Hill, whose family’s annual Christmas cards command prime refrigerator real estate across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin.
These are not your standard smiling-family-in-field holiday cards. The Hills specialize in the gloriously off-beat.
Classics include: “Life is What You Bake of It,” featuring a platter of gingerbread cookies, each with a cheerful Hill family face Photoshopped on. On the reverse side, cookie carnage and expressions of pain and horror. Dad’s gingerbread leg is crumbled at the knee, his daughter’s and sons’ cookies by turns decapitated or limbless, while Santa’s white-gloved hand reaches for mom, the last unscathed gingerbread of the batch. Or my favorite, “Deck the Hills,” a montage of each Hill being decked in the face, noses bent or cheeks smooshed by a fist of unknown origin. The unsmiling family poses for a group photo on the back, clad in Christmas PJs and draped in holly, each of them black-eyed and bruised.
This year’s theme, Mason explained, would put their youngest in the spotlight: Hark! (The Harris Angel Sings).
On a Sunday morning, the Hills rolled into my studio with their A-game—and a trunkful of rock-band gear. Harris ditched his coat, strapped on angel wings and a fuzzy halo, the dropped for a quick set of pushups at his dad’s urging to get his guns camera ready.
As you can see, he was a natural at the mic—a convincing heavenly heartthrob. Not surprising. Fifteen Christmases as a Hill prepares you for this sort of moment.
Once we nailed the cover shot, we pivoted to the B-side concept: a rock n’ roll band portrait of The Reconciled Sinners.
At this point, I was informed there was a hard stop—the Packers were about to kick off. I was secretly relieved (for time and insurance reasons) that we’d already scrapped the original plan of flying Harris over the family in a harness.
Maybe next year.

11/01/2025

You probably know the “dirty,” and the “Gibson,” and the “Vesper” martini. But a filthy martini? Apparently it’s not an unbearably briny, dirty-martini-gone-wrong, rather a classic martini garnished with a single pickled caperberry. But that felt skimpy, especially for a photo, so I went with four of these satisfyingly salty “Tears of Caperberries,” a new offering from the wonderful . Having snacked on half the jar after making these pictures, I’d describe them as salty, savory, and scrumptious; milder than your typical tiny caper, with more crunch. Absolutely nothing filthy about them.

10/16/2025

A few selects from a recent studio session with , a graphic designer in the tech sector and—lucky me—my wife.
When it comes to headshots, my goal is always to help people look their best, no matter who I’m photographing. Still, I might have felt a little extra pressure to deliver on this one. 😅
Unsurprisingly, Katrina made my job easy. This woman is incapable of taking a bad photo.

05/16/2025

I’ve never been much for selfies. Just the word makes me gag a little. But I was all set up for a portrait session today and my client had to cancel last minute, so I thought what the heck. I suppose a photographer should update his own headshot from time to time.

05/12/2025

A few years back the kids and I did a flowery photo shoot so we could make cover shots for their Mother’s Day cards. This year it was time for an update.
Charlotte wanted to find a flower resembling the print of a favorite dress. Easton didn’t care what his flower resembled, so long as it had a long stem that he could wield like a lightsaber.
To say we had a vision, though, would be a stretch. Like most things in our lives these days, this simple little photoshoot was a complete scramble. We showed up at the flower shop ten minutes before closing and snagged a few stems. On the way to my studio, feeling like our options were pretty limited, I pulled over to the roadside and … eh hem … borrowed several stalks of dried prairie grass while the kids stared disbelievingly out the window.
It all worked out in the end. We made a few photos and a few memories, and their mom loved her cards.
(Scroll for outtakes and our previous Mother’s Day shoot circa 2021.)

05/08/2025

For e-commerce brands and B2B product manufacturers, clean well-lit product photos are a must. While they may not be the most creatively inspired images, they’re essential for online product listings. I shoot a lot of them. Here are a few I’ve photographed this spring.
Time to update your product listings? Reach out —> [email protected]

Here are a few recent images

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1930 Innovation Way No. 130
Libertyville, IL
60048

Telephone

+18477547884

Website

http://jpk.media/

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