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Jacques-Jean Tizious, more commonly referred to as JJ, uses photography as a medium to celebrate people.  While landscapes and inanimate objects do capture JJ's lens, his unique aesthetic is most prominent when doing portraits.  He tends to have a strong focus on the person, with the background consistently soft and blurry.  "He firmly believes you can take an attractive portrait of anyone," The Philadelphia City paper says of JJ.  You can tell that he genuinely believes this through his pictures; people in otherwise mundane circumstances and clothing radiate and shine.

 

Additionally, JJ incorporates motion into his photographs. The affect of motion with the tree photographed below makes it look like a painting, hardly an ordinary landscape.  That is what sets JJ apart; his photos are not what they appear to be initially.  

 

Even more impressive is JJ's range of subjects.  From the 2005 CIW Truth Tour - a major protest for farm worker's rights - to the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in the Dominican Republic, he looks for inspiration in the rarest of places.