Marc Jennings was born in Eugene Oregon in 1968. When he was 4 years old, he and his parents moved to a farm outside Spokane, Washington where he spent the next 20 years of his life. This was an ideal location to explore the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, Glacier National Park, and the rugged Northwest Coast and Marc quickly became an avid hiker and climber.

At 13, an uncle gave him an old German-built AGFA Record folding camera which he had been planning to discard. Marc loved the camera and quickly immersed in its simple technology to create a series of monochrome landscapes of Western Glacier Park. He entered one of the photos is a local photography competition and won first prize. Marc says that was the first time that he experienced an absolute sense of surety about something. When he first saw that photograph, he knew that the first prize was his.