From the Lab Bench to the Camera
Before 415Headshots Inc., Jasmeet was a molecular biologist.
He worked at Mammoth Biosciences, the CRISPR diagnostics company spun out of UC Berkeley, where he holds two patents from his research there. In 2020 he co-authored a paper in Nature Biotechnology on a CRISPR-Cas12-based diagnostic platform for detecting SARS-CoV-2.
It was a strange path to professional photography. Jasmeet had been shooting on the side since high school. The transition was deliberate. The skills that made him useful in a research lab, controlled variables, redundant backups, careful documentation of every condition, turned out to be the same skills that separated competent photographers from reliable ones.
He left the lab in 2020 and started 415Headshots Inc. with a single camera. The first clients were friends and former colleagues. The first time someone he'd never met booked a session, he spent all night perfecting every edit from the flyaway hairs to color grading. That's still the work.
