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, embrace syncretic diversity, and elevate vital patterns of Indigenous wisdom.
(photo Dewi Sungai Marquis-Houston)
Jason has worked in over 30 countries making photojournalism, personal documentary, multimedia art, and short films. His work, which often includes socially engaged approaches, brings to life authentic narratives that honor the agency, authorship, and sovereignty for those in front of the camera while informing broader truths in social and environmental justice. His work has been recognized, published, exhibited, premiered, and presented online, in print, and at venues worldwide.
Jason is a grateful alumnus of the Missouri Photo Workshop, a Senior Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Fellow at Wake Forest University’s Sabin Center for Environment and Sustainability, and 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 values-driven films, media, and art racial justice, under-represented voices, and the decolonization and re-Indigenizing of humanity’s relationships with Earth and each other.
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)
