🎭 Culture Oct 19, 2026 · Noelani Kirschner

Jill Enfield

The American Scholar
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Jill Enfield
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Photography runs in Jill Enfield’s family. Her ancestors owned and operated camera shops in Frankfurt, Germany, for nearly a century until the Third Reich forced them to flee to the United States in the 1930s. The Leitz family, who founded Leica Cameras, sponsored the Enfields’ visas and helped them resettle in Miami Beach, Florida, where Jill was born. Growing up, “we always had cameras,” she says. Mom and dad “would bring us home all the silly little-kid cameras like the [Polaroid] Swinger and

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