J. Jason Lazarus, an Alaska-based photographer and educator, crafts narrative-rich works using alternative processes, exploring historical legacies, environmental fragility, and the stark beauty of Alaska’s tundra in his series Resilient.
From: Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Shows: Chemigrams, Mordançages and Vandykes
J. Jason Lazarus is an Alaska-based photographer and educator that creates handmade and narrative-driven photographic work utilizing a wide range of alternative and historical photographic processes. Lazarus has served as a photographic educator at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 2005, teaching and developing a wide range of courses in digital, alternative and traditional darkroom photography.
J. Jason Lazarus’ alternative process work ranges from abstract Chemigram prints that discuss the complex historical legacy left behind by World War II to darkroom-printed Mordançage images that show a fragile Western American landscape decaying under the pressures of resource development, economic failures and climate change.
Lazarus also spends the lengthy, dimly-lit winter months in Alaska creating unique portraits of its fragile tundra with his Fujifilm x100F digital camera, finding an uncanny beauty among its bleak northern latitudes, as seen in his series entitled “Resilient”.
More about J. Jason Lazarus:
- Contact email: lazarus (at) obscura-works.com
- Website: www.obscura-works.com
- Instagram: @obscuraworksAK
- BlueSky: @jjasonlazarus.bsky.social
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