Jason Lee

I first got interested in the art of photography after seeing the Hawaiian wave photography of Clark Little as a kid. I first wanted to make my own wave photos, but realized it wasn't really my thing, and discovered different types of photography more up my alley in the process.

For most of this period, photography to me was nothing but, "point a camera at something pretty," to get the most spectacular shot. I liked to take photos of all types of water. Usually the ocean, rivers, and waterfalls.

After falling into a river with my camera gear in high school, I took a while off from photography. I felt really bad about that fall, because it was gear gifted to me by my grandma who wanted me to put it to good use.

I saved up enough money for a Fuji XT20 right before starting college, and experimented with astrophotography and simple landscape shots.

Shortly after, my roommates got me into film photography. I got a Pentax K1000 in Portland, and started to shoot a bit differently. I liked it a lot. I also got a Mamiya RB67, and walked all over the place with that thing, shooting landscapes, architecture, and friends.

Covid hit, and around the same time, I picked up the Fuji X100V and shot lots of simple landscapes alongside my film cameras.

After finishing college, I took a while off again, just shooting on my phone sometimes. I wouldn't post anything and was not cultivating my work in any way.

Now, in 2026, I have finally started to actually think about photography more. I guess throughout my story there has been no point. I just had a camera and sometimes would use it, but not really with any purpose or story to tell. It was a thing to point at pretty stuff and that was it.

I'm getting a lot more interested in the process, start to finish. Right now, with archiving, printing, and making bodies of work with some kind of story to them. I'm challenging myself to think of cohesive ideas and not just one-off pretty shots now.

I'm sure a lot of this is basic stuff covered in some intro photography classes, but I never took any of those classes in college, so I'm still catching up.

I am now shooting everything on Leica M6, Leica M11-D, or iPhone 16 Pro. I think these systems work great for me, and I want to overall just stop thinking about any gear and new technique entirely, and more about storytelling and cohesion.

Currently, the site still has no project breakdown, but the goal is to convert this page into a cleaner set of projects rather than separated by years.