Photographer and filmmaker Jason Houston explores how we live on the planet and with each other through community, culture, and the diversity of human experience. Through his work, he is committed to art and action that seeks to deconstruct colonial worldviews and dismantle white supremacy culture.
Jason has worked in over 30 countries producing photojournalism, personal documentary, multimedia art, and short films. His work— often including various socially engaged approaches— brings to life authentic narratives that recognize agency, authorship, and sovereignty for those in front of the camera while informing broader truths toward social and environmental justice. His work has been recognized, published, exhibited, premiered, and presented online, in print, and at venues worldwide.
LAST WILDEST PLACE: The Purús/Manu region is one of the most isolated places in the Amazon, where threatened but still intact ecosystems provide for remote indigenous communities as well as water, oxygen, climate stability, and biological diversity for us all.
WHAT IS FOUND THERE: A process-based project that recontextualizes 20 years of my personal and photojournalistic photography, challenging the dominant perspectives I worked in, asking how it might be deconstructed and reimagined to vitalize new ways of knowing an infinitely diverse yet inextricably connected world.