Jason Houston’s photography, filmmaking, and art celebrates the diversity of human experience through stories exploring how we live on the planet and with each other. Through his work, he is committed to art and action that seeks to deconstruct colonial systems and help heal from their impact, embrace syncretic diversity, and vitalize the manifestation of Indigenous wisdom.
(photo Dewi Sungai Marquis-Houston)
Jason has worked in over 30 countries doing photojournalism, personal documentary, multimedia art, and short films. His work—which often includes socially engaged elements—brings to life authentic narratives that honor the agency, authorship, and sovereignty of those in front of the camera while informing broader truths related to social and environmental justice and healing.
Jason is a grateful alumnus of the Missouri Photo Workshop and Review Santa Fe, a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Senior Fellow at Wake Forest University’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability, and was the 2022 Environmental Peacemaking (EnPAx) Arts Fellow. His work has been published, exhibited, premiered, and presented around the world in outlets and venues ranging from The New York Times, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Science Magazine, WWF, and The Nature Conservancy, to Mountainfilm, SxSW, Harvard, Yale, Duke, the New Mexico Museum of Art, UNESCO, San Francisco Art Institute, and USAID.
In addition to his still photography, Jason runs eight16 creative with his life and creative partner Dewi Sungai, where they produce short films, media, and nonfiction art rooted in traditional documentary but increasingly driven by experimental nonfiction approaches such as observational and experiential cinematography, animism, participatory collaborations, nonlinear timelines, and the recognition of each story’s spirit and sovereignty.
jason@jasonhouston.com
Voice/SMS/Signal: +1 303 304 9193
Downloading and backing up—a week up river, and going on two months in the field—in the Peruvian Amazon. (photo Chris Fagan)
