About Jason Weston
“Beauty will Save the World”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty is the compelling counterpoint to the litany of human foibles that collectively could undermine one’s faith in humanity.
The camera and lens are remarkable in their insatiable quest to draw us in to seeing beauty in new ways, in our unquenchable urge to create yet more beauty. Beauty will save the world because it saves us from losing sight of the exquisite unnameable quality that fills us when we are exposed to it, and we pay attention.
As the human world and the natural world that supports it continue to unravel, art and beauty connect, enthrall, and inspire, providing an essential piece of the platform and communications for the work that must be done.
The camera is an opportunity to edit the visual world, to frame in rectangular structure, and to say to the viewer, THIS!
Photograph by Marci Graham
About Jason Weston
Jason Weston was born into what Life Magazine called “The First Family of American Photography.” He was first trained in photography by his family during his childhood and teen years, and did his first view camera work in his twenties.
Through the years Jason has traveled and photographed throughout much of the US, as well as Australia, Mexico, Central America, and much of Europe, most recently Iceland.
Until 2006, Jason worked almost exclusively in black and white, using medium and large cameras. Since then he has fully embraced digital photography, and expanded into working in color in addition to black and white. Jason was trained in color management by Bill Atkinson, and fine digital printing by Charles Cramer.
Photography and life today…
In 2004 I met my life partner, Marci Graham, and I am delighted every day at the richness of our relationship. She has been tremendously supportive of my artistic endeavors, and we share a true partnership. I’m deeply grateful.
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People sometimes have the idea that I’m disloyal to black and white because I also do color, or to traditional wet process photography because I now work in digital. I think it’s nonsense. I’m a photographer. I love black and white and I love color. Most images look better in one or the other, and I’m happy to go the direction that will yield the best image. Digital photography is in many ways a different skill set than wet process, but the end result is still beautiful, artistically rendered prints that draw the viewer in. That’s what I’m up to.
Jason Weston and Marci Graham live in Lakeport California, a quiet rural environment in beautiful Lake County. Fires during the past several years have been very close to home, and fortunately their home has survived.