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Jessica Christian
@jachristian.bsky.social
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Garden-loving photojournalist for the San Francisco Chronicle with a very loud Bengal cat.

📍Oakland, CA

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Here outside of the ICE office at 630 Sansome in San Francisco where demonstrators are participating in a one-day work stoppage and protest following the news of ICE agents at Coast Guard island. Follow @sfchronicle.com for more.
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Volunteers are here at the Oakland Home Depot handing out resources and keeping an eye out for federal ICE agents amid the news of the arrival of agents to Alameda's Coast Guard Island @sfchronicle.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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A very eventful work week for me! @sfchronicle.com
A man on the left raises his arm and cheers as his massive pumpkin seen on the right weighs in at 2017 pounds. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff points while speaking to a crowd at Dreamforce. Actress Rose Byrne turns and looks towards a warm light while sitting for a portrait. Kaiser employees carry signs that read “On Strike” while standing on the corner of Broadway and MacArthur Boulevard with the Kaiser Permanente building seen in the background.
October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Took over @sfchronicle.com A1 today with my pictures 📰
The front page of today’s San Francisco Chronicle featuring photos taken by me from the Dreamforce conference and the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off
October 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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New profile picture feat. Benji
A Bengal cat sits on the shoulders of a girl wearing a hoodie and glasses.
October 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Benji is Halloween ready 👻
A cat walks through the dark, lit from below by a green light while his shadow is cast on a wall where a skeleton cut-out is hanging.
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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What would you do with a pound of scotch bonnets?
An oval-shaped bowl is filled with small yellow scotch bonnet peppers illuminated by sunlight
October 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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It was big cloud day on the Bay this afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Happy to kick off @sfchronicle.com’s new Closer Look column with an interview about how I photographed Orange Sky Day. Gift link 🎁 bit.ly/42A7MqH
September 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Late-night earthquake casualties. We will rebuild.
A water spray bottle, a pen and a bottle of hand sanitizer lie on the hardwood floor and beneath an upright base after falling off of a bookshelf. A painting of a jug in a wooden frame lies on a multicolored rug. A small wire bicycle lies on the hardwood floor.
September 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Been working in the @sfchronicle.com archives until my wrist gets stronger and I’ve found the most incredible things, most that haven’t seen the light of day in almost one hundred years. This one is from the 1939 World’s Fair on Treasure Island.
A medium-format negative film slide with depicting a bearded magician and a woman hovering in mid air through a hoop.
September 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It’s been five years since we woke up to apocalyptic orange skies and everyone stopped for a moment and stared at the sky. Five years since @barackobama.bsky.social shared my @sfchronicle.com photos of that day, a fun fact that will follow me forever.
A dark orange haze hangs over the skyline of San Francisco. A man wearing a mask looks up at the sky as a dark orange haze hangs over the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. A motorcyclist pulls over on a road on Treasure Island to take a photo of the orange sky above the San Francisco Bay.
September 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Crow show in the front yard this evening.
September 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Still on leave, still only able to sit back and watch as my garden grows wild. It’s not so much a garden this year as it is an ecosystem.
bushy green bean plants grow up the side of the house surrounded by other plants like cucumber, basil, tomato, and peppers. Green bean plant strangles a dying tomato plant with black beauty tomatoes hanging off the vine. A grasshopper covered in dew drops sits on a Serrano plant.
September 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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I broke my wrist two weeks ago and have read about six books already since I can’t do much else. My TBR is running low so drop your recommendations below! 👇 #📚💙
August 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Can I offer you some garden pictures in these trying times?
A close up picture of a honeybee with its face inside of the flowering kale plant. A young cucumber grows vertically surrounded by yellow cucumber flowers and red marigolds. A bunch of blackberries, one ripe, growing on a blackberry bush. A close-up picture of a young green bean vine, wrapping around a wooden trellis.
July 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Evening garden check 🌜
A close-up photo of a green heirloom tomato with striping. A POV looking down on marigolds and basil plants in a garden bed. Overhead view of young squash with squash blossoms on the vine right after watering. Close-up view of the spiraling tendril of a cucumber plant.
June 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Cucumber plant or art? Or both? 🌀
A close-up picture of a fuzzy cucumber leaf on the left and a spiraling light green tendril on the right.
June 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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After a weekend of protests at 478 Tehama Street, the office of the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program run by ICE in San Francisco, graffiti has been cleared and business continues as usual with people checking in for scheduled appointments @sfchronicle.com
June 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Photos from today's No Kings Day protest in Oakland where thousands turned marched from Wilma Chan Park to Frank Ogawa Plaza. Keep up with the latest from all of the Bay Area protests on @sfchronicle.com bit.ly/3Zzk3Kq
A woman watches from inside a restaurant in Oakland's Chinatown as protester are reflected in the window marching down 8th Street. A member of Indivisible Bay Area constructs a golden toilet dubbed as "Trump's Throne" with a globe and various representations of cut services sitting inside of it. A view from five floors up of a line of protesters marching down Broadway in downtown Oakland with towers rising around them. Protesters are framed beneath an American flag as they walk down 8th Street along hundreds of others.
June 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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People are making their way to Wilma Chan Park early on Bart ahead of today’s No Kings Day protest and march to Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland @sfchronicle.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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If my assignment is by a river, I will be swimming.
Photo of my head, partially submerged while swimming in a river surrounded by trees.
June 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Had a lot of fun covering BottleRock yesterday for @sfchronicle.com. Being that close to Green Day was definitely a career highlight! bit.ly/3ZA1ndl
Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day plays guitar while singing at a microphone stand as fire shoots out from behind the band. A row of Green Day fans, scream, and jump while singing along as the band plays in front of a sea of thousands of people. Long shadows of four women dancing is cast onto green grass in the late afternoon hours. Rapper E-40 dances along while holding a microphone as he performs at BottleRock.
May 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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San Francisco is best viewed from the water, specifically while riding a paddle board. And photographing from a kayak isn't for the faint of heart. A very nice Monday with @peterhartlaub.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com 🚣 bit.ly/4ji3sBN
A paddle boarder pushes through rough waters in the shadow of a massive U.S. military ships in the San Francisco Bay. The silhouettes of two paddle boarders are reflected in the waters of the San Francisco Bay. Peter Hartlaub paddle boards past a view of the San Francisco Skyline from the waters of the bay. Dogpatch Paddle CEO Adam Zolot pulls a two-person kayak into the calm shores of Crane Cove Park in San Francisco.
May 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM