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Jenna Doore

Wedding photographer, poet and Survivor 51 contestant from Ohio.

Biography

Jenna Doore is a wedding photographer and poet who joined Survivor 51 in 2026. Originally from Perrysburg, Ohio, she was living in nearby Toledo when the season’s cast was announced. Her professional work focuses on wedding photography, while writing is another part of the creative practice she describes on her business website.

Jenna Doore built a wedding photography business before joining Survivor 51. Her creative work also includes poetry, and she has described a photographic approach centered on emotion and observation. Long before casting, she prepared her business for a possible television opportunity and shared a poem inspired by that ambition.

Known for

Contestant

Survivor 51

Jenna Doore competed on Survivor 51 in 2026.[2]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Her first camera and first wedding

    Doore bought her first camera at fifteen with babysitting earnings and photographed her first wedding at eighteen.[3]

  2. Career 2

    Building the photography business

    In her cast questionnaire, she named building her business as her proudest achievement. She also described wedding photography as preparation for the stamina and pressure of Survivor.[3]

  3. Career 3

    The Survivor clause in her contracts

    Her interest in the series began with childhood viewing. For five years before being cast, she included a Survivor clause in her wedding contracts.[3]

  4. Career 4

    Sharing a poem about ambition

    She also shared 154 copies of a poem inspired by that ambition, asking recipients to tell her a dream of their own.[3]

  5. Career 5

    Destination weddings and her creative approach

    On her professional website, Doore describes photographing destination wedding weekends and a style shaped by emotion as well as composition. She connects that approach with poetry: both involve noticing a moment and finding a way to preserve its feeling. The site lists Ohio and Arizona as her working bases and presents photography as a collaboration with the people she documents.[4]