“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.
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
Some artworks. Please contact us for further information
Urbino, 2015 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition published in: The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023)Possagno, 2021 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition published in: The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023)Roma, 2021 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition published in: The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023)Mexico City, 2015 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Catania, 2021 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition published in: The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023)Modena, 2021 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition published in: The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023)Milano, 2016 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition published in: The Heart is a Sandwich (MACK, 2023)Urbino, 2018 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Mexico City, 2015 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Los Angeles, 2016 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Scranton, 2014 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Vancouver, 2018 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Scranton, 2009 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
San Francisco, 2020 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Picture Summer on Kodak Film (MACK, 2020)
Brooklyn, 2009 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: The Mushroom Collector (The Soon Institute, 2010 and 2014)
Scranton, 2010 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: The Mushroom Collector (The Soon Institute, 2010 and 2014)
Seoul, 2010 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Hotel Oracle (The Soon Institute, 2013)
Los Angeles, 2007 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in Blind Spot, issue #35
Pennsylvania, 1999 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Crushed (J&L Books, 2003)
Scranton, 1999 Inkjet print from scanned negative edition of 5+2AP’s, size: 24×24″ + open edition: size 8×10″ published in: Crushed (J&L Books, 2003)