B. Jed Rollins

Real estate developer. Recovering photographer.

About B. Jed Rollins

Illustrated portrait of B. Jed Rollins

I work on complicated real estate deals, from acquiring and entitling land to negotiating with cities and structuring the capital behind a project.

Before real estate, I co-founded an ed-tech company. Before that, I photographed for a living. The camera still comes along.

Dallas, Texas

Photography by B. Jed Rollins

An Edinburgh street curving downhill in the rain, seen from above, people with umbrellas passing the lit shopfronts — Edinburgh, Scotland55.95° N, 3.19° W

An older man in tweed at a sash window, looking down on the crowded street below — Edinburgh, Scotland55.95° N, 3.19° W

A weathered orange façade with rows of blue-framed windows, a lone man leaning at one open window — Vatican City41.90° N, 12.45° E

A Highland cow facing the camera, horns wide, the rest of the fold grazing behind it — Isle of Skye, Scotland57.3° N, 6.2° W

Two people on the clifftop above Neist Point, the lighthouse small at the end of the headland — Neist Point, Isle of Skye57.4236° N, 6.7894° W

An old man sitting in the sand with a small girl beside painted fishing boats, swimmers off the rocks beyond — Calella de Palafrugell, Spain41.89° N, 3.18° E

The bar at The Beekman seen straight down from the atrium, tables lit under the balconies — The Beekman, New York City40.7110° N, 74.0061° W

Two figures on a hilltop path above San Francisco at dusk, the Transamerica Pyramid beyond — San Francisco, California37.77° N, 122.42° W

A man in a suit watching a helicopter come in low over the pad, the coast hazy behind him — South Texas27.8° N, 97.4° W

A stone gatehouse arch framing the vineyard rows beyond, the sky going gold at the far end — Bordeaux, France44.84° N, 0.58° W

A Paris café terrace at night, rows of empty rattan chairs under the trees, two people talking at the one occupied table — Paris, France48.86° N, 2.35° E

Empty rows of slatted seats inside a ferry, low sun through the windows, the fjord and mountains beyond — Leikanger, Norway61.18° N, 6.87° E

A man in an apron looking up from his seat by a brick hearth, knife in hand, a whole pig roasting over the coals beside him — Croatia43.5° N, 16.4° E

A bride at the microphone in a dive bar, dartboards and a lit scoreboard behind her — Dallas, Texas32.78° N, 96.80° W

Two workers among rebar and timber forms on the waterfront, one standing, one leaning into the formwork, the bay flat under a streaked sky — Corpus Christi, Texas27.80° N, 97.40° W

A chef in a striped apron at the pass, two cooks working the line behind him — Three Chimneys, Isle of Skye57.44° N, 6.64° W

My grandfather in a straw hat, a hand on his hip, standing among the fence posts of his garden in low evening sun, corn in the foreground — My grandfather's last garden, Missouri

A girl leaning into my grandfather's shoulder while he reads — My grandfather at 90

My grandfather standing over the lit cake, a hand to his face — My grandfather at 90

A man with a newspaper on his lap, seated at the base of a column — Rome, Italy41.90° N, 12.50° E

Lately — recent frames, newest first.