Born in Medicine Hat in 1984, he was raised on a family farm on the northern slopes of the Cypress Hills. After college, he moved to Lethbridge in 2006 to be employed as a senior architectural technologist, a job he is still involved with and enjoying immensely. Growing up on the family farm, Jason discovered his interest for photography from seeing the abandoned farmsteads in the area and the appreciation of the history and often the struggles many of these pioneers (including his own relatives) in their quest to settle on the raw prairie at the turn of the century. Their accomplishments, often as abandoned farmsteads or rusting machinery still stand as testaments to hard work and determination. Some of his favourite subjects are trains, prairie landscapes, grain elevators, architecture, abandoned farmsteads, and rusty trucks. Working with the landowner and doing research on the places he visits enables him to tell a thorough and interesting story – one people look for when seeing his photographs. The story behind the subject is often sought out and is one of the reasons that drives Jason to go above and beyond in recording these fleeting moments in time.
