Jason Fulford

“When someone looks at one of your pictures, they will always think of their own life, their own memories. Each interpretation will be unique.”
– Jason Fulford

JASON FULFORD (1973) is a photographer, co-founder of J&L Books, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

He is a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the United States, in Japan, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Britain, Canada, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Slovenia.

His monographs include Sunbird (Bird Entertainment, 2000), Crushed (J&L Books, 2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (The Ice Plant, 2006), The Mushroom Collector (The Soon Institute, 2010 and 2014), Hotel Oracle (The Soon Institute, 2013), Contains: 3 Books (The Soon Institute, 2016), The Medium is a Mess (Studio Blanco, 2018), Clayton’s Ascent (TBW, 2018) and Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020).

He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of This Equals That (Aperture, 2014), Find Colors (Phaidon and Whitney Museum, 2018), A Pile of Leaves (Phaidon and Whitney Museum, 2019), and Offline Activities (The Ice Plant, 2020). Together with Gregory Halpern he co-edited The Photographer’s Playbook (Aperture, 2014).

Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association.

His books here
His website here

Exhibitions in collaboration with Micamera

Picture Summer on Kodak Film
June 4th – July 4th, 2021
Micamera, Milan

Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin
The Beach Ball and the Crab
September 15th – October 14th, 2017
Micamera, Milan

Performances

Hotel Oracle / the wine cellar
March 28th, 2014
Micamera, Milan

High Anxiety
May 6th, 2017
HEY NOW, Reggio Emilia

Workshops

Photo No-Nos
June 5th-6th, 2021
Venice

ME ME ME (or: THE PARALLAX VIEW) with Tamara Shopsin
September 16th-17th, 2017
Micamera, Milan

Chance
October 22nd-23rd, 2016
Micamera, Milan

VISUAL LANGUAGE: How images speak to each other
March 29th-30th, 2014
Micamera, Milan