Jess T. Dugan is an American portrait photographer and educator, living in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently the 2020–2021 Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis.
Their long-term projects, Every Breath We Drew and To Survive On This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults, have been published as books and toured the USA as exhibitions, including at Minneapolis Institute of Art and George Eastman Museum. They received a Champion of Change Award from the White House in 2015 and the 2019 Infinity Award for Emerging Photographer from the International Center of Photography. Their work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.